Patna, Bihar Times: Very much on the pattern of the New
Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) the Bihar
government is thinking to involve the postal
department and banks for tax collection in seven
municipal corporations of the state. The move is aimed
at evolving a smooth tax payment procedure so as to
bring it to the doorstep of the holder.
According to the principal secretary, the urban
development department, S Jalja the state government
is considering replicating the Delhi Municipal
Corporation model for collection of municipal taxes in
Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Darbanga, Bhagalpur,
Biharsharif and Ara municipal corporations.
A tax collector will not go house-to-house, but is
assigned a particular, for example, bank, post office
and municipal corporation office, where residents will
go and pay their taxes.
She said that the urban development department had
asked the corporations to come up with a clear model.
The idea is to make the municipal tax collection
system more efficient, participative and voluntary.
Jalja said the department had also decided to
outsource sanitation work to overcome the crisis of
shortage of sanitary workers in urban areas.
