After a shocking defeat in the Dubbaka bypoll, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao conducted a review meeting with ministers and other key leaders to discuss the poll strategies for the upcoming elections in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). He conducted deliberations with the ministers for hours to review the bypoll.
Ahead of the GHMC elections and just days before releasing the notification, the Telangana government announced a property tax rebate to woo the voters. The government announced a 50 percent rebate on payment of property tax for the financial year 2020-21 under the GHMC limits.
The rebate will apply only to residential property owners with a ceiling of up to Rs 15,000 property tax per annum in GHMC limits and Rs 10,000 above property tax per annum in other cities in Telangana.
“This is a Diwali gift from the Telangana government. The amount, for those who already paid the property tax, will be adjusted in the next financial year. The property tax rebate will benefit more than 31.40 lakh families,” IT and Urban Development Minister K.T. Rama Rao said.
Addressing a press conference, KTR also said the government has decided to enhance the salaries of sanitation workers by Rs 3,000 to Rs 17,500 from the current Rs 14,500. “The sanitation workers have done a commendable job during the Covid-19 pandemic period. The government decided to honor the sanitation workers by increasing their salaries,” he said.
BJP leader Lanka Dinakar told The Daily Guardian, “KCR decided to rebate the 50% of House taxes for appeasing the GHMC Voter after the shocking debacle in Dubbaka By-Elections by BJP contestant Raghunathan Rao. The people of Hyderabad had experienced the miserable failure of Municipal Administration in the recent floods.”