Villagers protest property tax notices in Mohali, want civic amenities

Tribune News Service

Mohali, September 4

Outraged over notices sent by the Municipal Corporation regarding property tax, residents of Kumbhra village, Sector 68, here, staged a protest against the Punjab Government and the MC.

Led by social activist Balwinder Singh Kumbhra, the protesters also burnt an effigy of Mayor Amarjit Singh Jiti Sidhu and Commissioner Kamal Kumar Garg.

Addressing the protesters, Kumbhra said no facility was being provided to the villagers. He said the village was in dire need of basic amenities. He said during the last meeting of the MC, the Mayor and other councillors had increased their salaries, the entire burden of which fell on the common man.

He said villagers would not pay the property tax unless the MC provided the same facilities to the villagers as was being provided to the residents of Mohali city.

He said villagers would not pay property tax unless facilities such as playground, school, college, park, community centre, sewerage system, water supply and sanitation are provided to children in the village.