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  Satark Nagrik Foundation ® 102, Ekvira Apartment, Uthalsar, Thane West 400601 email:  dayanandnene@gmail.com February 10, 2023 The Hon. Chief Minister, Govt of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Mumbai. Sub:  Request to scrap the NA Tax in the State - Reference to our earlier letter dated March 24, 2022 on the same subject. Respected Sir, NA Tax is the assessment fixed on any land under the provisions of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (MLRC), 1966 to the use of land for non-agricultural purposes. The State Government has been levying and collecting NA Tax from various landholders in Maharashtra since the British Era. Under the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code 1966, the NA tax is imposed in the areas earlier marked as agricultural outside gaothans, where there is non-agricultural activity, and is levied over and above the property tax.  This tax was negligible until February 2008, but the state government through a notification in 2009 decided to link it with the ready reckoner rate, which is d

 Good news : The Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered a temporary stay on the recovery of non-agricultural (NA) tax by the state revenue department from housing societies in Mumbai's suburbs. Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat made this announcement in the Legislative Assembly. You may recall that we at Alert Citizens Forum have been following up this issue for sometime. We had also written to the CM and Balasaheb Thorat in this regard. BJP Leaders Ashish Shelar and Atul Bhatkhalkar had raised this issue in the current assembly session. Dayanand Nene

 *MMR Region : Pay The Fine, Legalise Your Building* On the lines of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has issued a circular for regularising unauthorised constructions in lieu of penalty premiums ranging from several lakh to crore rupees. However, the MMRDA’s Golden offer, which is applicable till December 31 of this year, is applicable in the places of Thane & Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Ambernath and Badlapur where it’s the Special Planning Authority (SPA). According to the promulgation signed by MMRDA commissioner SVR Srinivas, the "regularisation policy" has fixed rates of fine considering the quantum of unauthorised constructions in the SPA areas. The MMRDA Recently finalised Revised Rates for such premiums ranging from 20 per cent to 100 per cent based on the extent of the violation to be Regularised.  For instance, work carried out beyond the Commencement Certificate (CC) but within the approved plan then fine w

 *Mumbai: To Solve Problem of Flooding in Dadar And Parel during Monsoon, IIT Bombay suggests construction of Underground Holding Ponds* No Mumbai Monsoon is complete without several episodes of waterlogging in low-lying areas of the city, every season.  To address this annual ‘Ritual’  inundation problem in the low-lying areas of Sion, Dadar and Parel year after year, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has suggested the creation of a 17,000m2 underground holding pond at Purandare Stadium. In June 2021, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had directed the railway authorities to rope in IIT Bombay to suggest smart measures to quell monsoon woes. In its Preliminary Report, IIT Bombay had suggested the creation of holding ponds in the Dadar-Lower Parel areas, for immediate relief from flooding on tracks. “From our Analysis, the present pumping station, located at the St Xavier’s ground and Pramod Mahajan Park, in its present form, can cater to only around 10 per cent catchment of