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BANGALORE, FEB. 23. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) Council is likely to take up discussion on the proposal to levy infrastructure cess and solid waste management cess at its meeting on Thursday. Though the proposals were tabled in the council on February 15, they could not be taken up because the whole day was spent on discussing the protest by members of the BMP Noukarara Kendriya Sangha. The members were protesting over the alleged assault of a revenue employee by the Jeevan Bima Nagar corporator, N. Munireddy. While the council approved as many as 14 subjects pertaining to renaming of roads and two regarding lease of land to various organisations, others could not be taken up. Thursday's session is likely to be stormy with the Opposition Janata Dal (Secular), Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party all set to oppose the move in a big way. The civic body has fixed annual rates for two-wheelers, three-wheelers, four-wheelers and heavy transport vehicles. The BMP will coordinate with the Regional Transport Offices (RTO) to collect the cess or adopt the self-assessment scheme (SAS) model to collect the cess, sources said. While owners of two-wheelers will have to pay Rs. 50 a year, Rs. 100 and Rs. 300 will be collected from three-wheelers and four-wheelers respectively. A cess of Rs. 400 will be collected from heavy transport vehicles, the sources said. Likewise, the solid waste management cess will be collected from residential, commercial and industrial buildings. The rates have been calculated on the basis of the built-up area. The civic body intends to mobilise over Rs. 30 crores through the new levies. Though the proposal to impose the infrastructure and solid waste management cess had been included in the BMP budgets for the past three years, the civic body got the green signal from the State Government only recently after the Karnataka Municipal Corporations (KMC) Act was amended.
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