Delhi mayor holds meets A&C department officials, reviews schemes related to property tax

NEW DELHI: Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Tuesday chaired a meeting with officials of the
assessment and collection (A&C) department of the municipal corporation, and reviewed
schemes related to property tax, her office said. During the meeting, senior officials apprised her
about the status of revenue collection, tax policies and challenges faced by the department over
the years, they said.
The mayor discussed and reviewed various initiatives of the A&C department to optimise
revenue generation through property tax and ongoing schemes like amnesty scheme and
Samriddhi scheme of the department, the statement said.
The meeting was attended by MCD’s Assessor and Collector Kunal Kashyap and other senior
officials of the department.

She was also briefed about the citizen-centric measures undertaken by the department to
facilitate smooth property tax collection through its online portal.
The mayor emphasised on the need to give wide publicity to the people friendly property tax
schemes like Samriddhi scheme, amnesty scheme, it said.
On Tuesday, the mayor also inspected Mata Gujri Hospital, Tilak Nagar, in MCD’s West Zone.
The mayor took stock of medical facilities and services being provided at the hospital, her office
said in a statement.
Along with MLA Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh, zonal DC Sandeep Kumar, DC (Health) Pradeep
Kumar, local councillor Ashok Maanu, senior officials of the hospital administration were also
present on the occasion.