The Confederation of Citizens Association has been protesting against collection of holding tax since 2011
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa high court’s interim order asking the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to be lenient on people unable to pay holding tax in view of pandemic situation prompted the government to suspend tax collection at revised rates apart from protests.
The HC had said in its September 4, 2020, order, “The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation can collect the holding tax @50 % of the assessment involved but without prejudice to the rights and contentions of both the parties and subject to the final outcome of the writ petition. Further considering the continuation of pandemic situation due to Covid-19, it is also directed that in the event any consumer approaching the BMC, indicating his difficulty to pay the tax at one go and seeking instalments, the BMC shall do well in granting relief to the person.”
BHUBANESWAR: Coming under ire of smart city residents, the state government on Monday decided to pause collection of revised rate of holding tax, till.
As the OSCBC gears up to start survey of social and educational condition of the backward classes in Odisha from May 1, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Thursday said that the state administration already has the data on the number of people under OBC category. Pradhan, who has written at least three letters to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik demanding immediate implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBC category, in a statement said that his demand for reservation in jobs and education remain unaddressed till date. Meanwhile, after the state government s nod, the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) has decided to conduct the survey from May 1 to May 20 and release the findings on June 11 based on which the administration will take a decision on the ratio of reservation to be made for the OBCs.
A partly-filled assembly after BJP MLAs staged a walkout
BHUBANESWAR: The opposition BJP and Congress MLAs on Saturday targeted the state government over the increasing crime rate in Odisha even as minister of state for home, Dibya Shankar Mishra, claimed that the law and order situation was largely in control.
Moving an adjournment motion on the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, the opposition members raised issues like children going missing, rape, cyber offences, political killings and alleged involvement of ministers in some of these crimes.
Initiating the debate, opposition chief whip Mohan Charan Majhi said, “Odisha’s image of a peaceful state has changed now with increasing crime rate like the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.”