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EDMC Panel Rejects New Taxes Proposed In Budget
The Standing Committee of the cash-strapped East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Monday rejected the three new taxes, including a professional tax and a betterment tax, proposed in its annual budget to augment its revenue. Additional Commissioner Alka R Sharma had presented the budget in December in which an education cess of five per cent of property tax had also been proposed.
FOLLOW US ON: New Delhi, Jan 18: The Standing Committee of the cash-strapped East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Monday rejected the three new taxes, including a professional tax and a betterment tax, proposed in its annual budget to augment its revenue. Additional Commissioner Alka R Sharma had presented the budget in December in which an education cess of five per cent of property tax had also been proposed.
The Standing Committee of the cash-strapped East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Monday rejected the three new taxes, including a professional tax and a betterment tax, proposed in its annual budget to augment its revenue. Additional Commissioner Alka R Sharma had presented the budget in December in which an education cess of five per cent of property tax had also been proposed. The Standing Committee of the EDMC in a special meeting held on Monday rejected all hikes in taxes and levying of new taxes, the civic body said in a statement. The EDMC always works for the welfare of people, it said.
Delhi corporations on Jaunary 13 imposed a ban sale, storage of poultry or processed chicken meat. Bird flu Representational photo) | Photo Credit: PTI
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No spread of bird flu in poultry in Delhi: Official
Delhi corporations banned sale, storage of poultry or processed chicken meat in view of bird flu in Delhi
Kejriwal govt had banned sale of processed, packaged chicken brought from outside Delhi
New Delhi: A day after Delhi s municipal corporations imposed a ban on sale and storage of poultry or processed chicken meat by shops and restaurants across the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday directed to the poultry markets to open and withdraw the orders to restrict trade and import of chicken stocks.
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New Delhi, January 13
Fresh bird deaths and avian influenza cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, while in neighbouring Delhi, civic bodies banned the sale of poultry products, even as the city government asked people not to panic and eat completely cooked eggs and chicken.
Unusual mortality among birds has also been reported in some districts of Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir, as per a statement of the Union fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying ministry, which has asked state governments not to ban supply of poultry products.
However, bird flu outbreak has been confirmed only in Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Gujarat till now, according to the ministry.