AMC’s Rs. 12263 crore budget for FY 2024-25

Gandhinagar: Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC)’s Standing Committee has presented a Rs. 12,262.83 crore budget for the financial year 2024-25.

Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has in its annual budget for financial year 2024-25 proposed increase in rebate on advance and online payment of property tax.

The AMC has proposed 12 percent rebate on advance property tax payment instead of 10 percent earlier. The AMC has also increased rebate on online property tax payment from 12 percent earlier to 13 percent.

The property tax payer who paid advance property tax for last three years continuously would get 14 percent rebate while those who paid it online for 3 years would get 15 percent rebate.

The implementation of this shall be from April 2024 for the year 2024-25.

The AMC has decided to give relief in property tax to newly added areas Sanathal, Vishalpur, Aslali, Geratnagar, Bilasiya, Ranasan, Khodiyar, Nana Chiloda and Kathwada etc that were earlier gram panchayats.

AMC has kept vehicle tax unchanged.

Electric vehicles shall attract a 100 percent waiver on tax. Rs. 45 crore gau shala is proposed in the Kathwada area. Riverfront shall have a fire chowky as per the proposal. An underpass connecting Rajpath Club to Bopal is planned in the budget.

AMC also plans to develop a Rs. 20 crore Lotus garden consisting of flowers from across India. Rs. 1,000 crore works of Riverfront phase-3, 5 iconic roads at a cost of Rs. 135 crore, a green-belt walkway in iconic roads, sitting arrangement, EV charging station, Rs. 15 crore entry gates of the city are some other proposals in the budget. DeshGujarat