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Workshop on Municipal
Finance with focus on Reforms in Property Tax
Date: 4 April 2008 Venue: Kolkata, West Bengal |
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A workshop on Municipal
Finance with focus on Reforms in Property Tax was
organised in Kolkata on April 4, 2008 by Mega Cities Association. This was
supported by Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Over 50 participants including
Commissioner, Deputy
Commissioners, Joint Commissioners, Commissioner-Finance, Chief
Assessors, Collectors and Revenue Officers of Mega Cities, officials from
Government of West Bengal, etc. attended this programme. Dr.Debjani Ghosh,
Senior Research Officer and Mr.
Ajay Nigam,
Junior Research Officer, NIUA
participated in this event.
Dr. Debjani Ghosh
delivered a presentation titled 'Best
Practices on Property Tax Reforms in India: A Research Study' which explained the methodology for the on-going
MoUD supported study on preparing a framework to help states develop a
policy on PT reforms. Ten JNNURM cities have been taken as samples of which
Kolkata is one. Prof. D.N.Banerjee, Member, Municipal Valuation Committee
chaired the first Technical Session in which other presentations were
experiences from Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Assessor-Collector, KMC),
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (Deputy Municipal Commissioner, AMC) etc.
The participants showed keen interest in NIUA’s project and hoped the
study results and guidelines suggested would help many of the cities that
are in the transition phase to reform faster. |
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