Bengaluru to charge 100% penalty on unpaid property taxes starting April 1BBMP will impose a 100% penalty on all unpaid property taxes from April 1. Property owners must pay dues before March 31 to avoid the penal...
20 Mar, 2025, 01.47 PM IST
'Should have planned properly': Bengaluru property owners frustrated by BBMP's e-khata delaysBBMP's new e-khata system, intended to streamline property registration in Bengaluru, is facing criticism due to software glitches and a la...
05 Nov, 2024, 05.30 PM IST
Bengaluru’s 2.2 million properties get scam-proof e-Khatas first in a metroBangalore's civic body, BBMP, has launched a new online system for property tax records (e-Khatas). This is the first time a metro city in ...
14 Oct, 2024, 06.45 PM IST
- Sakala Effect: BBMP will now issue new Khatas for individual flats in 30 days
The Sakala Mission of the State Government has intervened with the BBMP to streamline things with the help of technology and end the inordi...
15 Jun, 2021, 07.41 PM IST
Bengaluru civic body issues notices to 3.9 lakh property owners for giving wrong infoThe deception came to light recently when the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started physically verifying the self-declarations ...
17 Dec, 2020, 10.41 AM IST
Coronavirus delays monsoon civic work, but BBMP’s optimisticSeveral civic body officials ET spoke to said this time around, coordination meetings with various agencies like the BBMP, Bescom, BWSSB, p...
03 Jun, 2020, 10.52 AM IST
Around 40% property owners in Bengaluru don't pay taxWhile the civic body’s GIS-enabled property tax information system has identified 19 lakh properties in its limits, only 11.5 lakh properti...
10 Jan, 2019, 01.33 PM IST
BBMP locks horns with medical shops, jewellers over licenceSection 353 of the KMC Act, 1976, mandates licences for certain trades. Accordingly, commercial business entities need apply for the licenc...
24 Dec, 2018, 11.06 AM IST
Bengaluru civic body toys with cooperative idea for its link workersAs many as 360 link workers have not been paid salaries under the existing contract system.
14 Aug, 2018, 10.40 AM IST
Heritage associated with Kempe Gowda to be promoted as tourism, cultural hubsThe govt manages Hampi, the site of erstwhile Vijayanagara empire, through a similar authority called the Hampi World Heritage Area Managem...
28 Jun, 2018, 12.02 PM IST
BBMP received no government funds in the April-June periodEven as the BBMP's reliance on the government has grown manifold over the past few years, it has not received the full amount from the gove...
30 Oct, 2017, 12.22 PM IST
BBMP faces ire for publishing pourakarmikas' Aadhaar details on websiteThe disclosure comes at a time when the Modi govt's push for wider application of the unique identification number has triggered a debate o...
29 May, 2017, 10.31 AM IST
Soon, pay property tax in your neighbourhood in BengaluruThe BBMP is in talk with banks to deploy officials for tax collection at revenue offices which are across the city and present at ward leve...
07 Apr, 2017, 10.47 AM IST
BBMP to claim Rs 331 cr due from Ad agenciesPrasad has committed before the High Court that the BBMP will remove illegal hoardings for which no advertisement tax has been paid by the ...
27 Dec, 2016, 10.42 AM IST
Meet tax target by March 31, or face action: Bengaluru MinisterCity Development Minister K J George has warned disciplinary action against Bengaluru’s municipal authorities if they fail to collect Rs 50...
04 Mar, 2016, 04.43 PM IST
BBMP fails to tap crores of rupees in advertisement revenueK Mathai, BBMP's assistant commissioner, says “total administrative failure“ keeps the civic body from realising its full ad revenue potent...
17 Sep, 2015, 10.09 AM IST
Without financial powers, Finance Commission's Rs 4,600-cr bonanza doesn't help: ExpertsExperts are not cheering yet as CM Siddaramaiah's government has not shown any signs of parting with greater financial powers to local bodi...
26 Feb, 2015, 10.51 AM IST