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Residents spurn meeting on Ranchi light house project Slum dwellers want location shifted, corporation working on fresh dates for talks
Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC)’s attempt to hold talks with residents of 26 slums at Jagannathpur in Dhurwa, majority of whom are against the Centre’s ambitious light house project coming up in their area, failed to materialise on Thursday as no one turned up.
The civic body, which functions under the state urban development department, is now working out fresh dates for a meeting to convince the residents of the utility of the project that involves construction of low-cost homes out of prefabricated structures.
Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has started collecting holding tax from houses as online payments aren’t possible because its official website remains defunct, officials said on Monday.
Sri Enterprises, a third-party agency roped in by RMC for collection of holding tax, has appointed as many as 75 tax collectors to visit houses of city residents on request and collect their holding tax either in cheque or cash, said Vaibhav Kumar, a manager with the agency.
“Any person willing to get their holding tax collected from their residence can make a phone call to RMC and make a request. The concerned tax collector of the ward will visit the person’s residence within 24 hours and collect holding tax,” said Kumar.