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India Real Estate Bazaar's Interesting News Snippets -- Courtesy: Compilations by 99acres.com

IT Department Purchased Properties Worth INR 2500cr in 2010
The Income Tax Department became one of the largest purchasers of real estate properties last year as it embarked on a mega expansion spree to spread its establishment for enhancing taxpayer services in the country. The department, which has recently begun a special drive to check prevalence of black money in the country’s real estate sector, has acquired high-worth properties worth about 2,500 crores in more than 20 cities in the last year alone. The largest purchase by the department has been at the cost of more than 2,000 crores for the purchase of office space in the civic centre near the national capital’s marketing hub, Connaught Place.
May 2nd 2011, IndianRealtyNews

CBI to Probe Mr A Raja’s Green Approval to Unitech & DB Realty Projects
Realty firms DB Realty and Unitech’s troubles are likely to get worse. The CBI is now likely to probe the two companies real estate projects that were cleared by former telecom minister Mr A Raja during his tenure as environment minister from 2004 to 2007. Unitech and DB Realty (whose telecom arm Swan Telecom is alleged to have given kickbacks in the 2G scam) had obtained environmental clearances for some of their key projects during Raja’s tenure. “These clearances could be linked to the 2G spectrum scam too,” a CBI official said. Mr Raja had given the clearances at the instance of Mr RK Chandolia, then director of planning and coordination in the environment ministry.
May 2nd 2011, Indian Realty News

SBI Drops Prepayment Charges on Home Loans
Banking leader State Bank of India dropped ‘prepayment charges’ on all its loans over the past fortnight. The announcement coincided with the hiking of the bank’s base rate and withdrawal of the controversial teaser home loan schemes. With the SBI taking the lead, other banks are now expected to follow suit and withdraw the controversial penalty in the days to come. Most banks and home finance institutions charge a prepayment penalty in the range of 1 per cent to 2 per cent in the event of a customer opting to close the home loan prematurely. Public sector banks generally charge about 1 per cent or less of the loan outstanding as prepayment penalty, while it can be anywhere between 1-3 per cent in private banks. In many cases, banks do not charge any prepayment penalty if you prepay using your own sources.
May 2nd 2011, Indian Realty News

The entire print and electronic media, including the world wide web, is abuzz with one prominent news only since Monday (02/05/2011)---  the news of US Forces pinning down Osama Bin Laden's Hideout Compound located in the military dominated township of Abbottabad in the very vicinity of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad.

While the entire gambit of the geopolitical angle to this entire sequence of events-- that included tracking & pinning down and then eliminating Osama Bin Laden inside this very ostentatious hideout compound by the super elite anti-terrorist squad of the United States of America-- is in itself nothing less than a gigantic maze (the exact sitemap to which could actually be with the US elite services/squads, and/or Pakistani selected few in the military/ government/ ISI/ etc., and/or perhaps some other third parties too!); but the fact that this hideout compound in Abbottabad (Pakistan) that Osama Bin Laden was using was although more or less ordinary looking, yet was built like nothing short of a fortress of sorts.

The manner this hideout compound was built and operated right under the nose of the elite Pakistan Military Academy is already providing ample ammunition to the people around the world to raise fingers on Pakistan in every suspicious manner.

A few salient details, inferred from various web sources about the Abbottabad (Pakistan) hideout compound that Osama Bin Laden was using, are assimilated hereunder for ready reference of our readers who would like to know more about this hideout:

• The hideout compound was located in the garrison township of Abbottabad, located somewhere in the middle of route leading to Afghanistan border from Pakistan's national capital city of Islamabad. One could reach this township in less than 4 hours driving down from Islamabad.

• The building is located within strikingly short distance from Pakistan's National Military Academy, and built somewhat as a seclusion fortress in similar fashion that Pakistan's infamous intelligence services (ISI) reportedly uses elsewhere to protect and seclude high worth profile entities.

• Satellite imageries of the area reveal that the building, that was about 8 to 10 times size of the other buildings in the vicinity, was built sometime in the year 2005.

• Despite reports carried out in many a websites, news channels and other media sources depicting the building as nothing less than a luxurious mansion, the fact of the matter (of course, as inferred by us-- 'Team bricks-n-mortar'-- after seeing and analyzing the building from pictures released by various agencies) is that the building was given substantially ordinary outlook so that it could gel well with the rest of the neighboring buildings, and that it should not stand out from the rest. However, its overall size as well as dimensions of certain building elements (like boundary/ protecting walls) combined with reportedly typical ISI style construction ultimately made it to actually stand out making the US elite forces to believe some very very high value entity was secured there.

• The building was designed in such a manner to provide ample privacy as well as security to whoever that could inhabit the building. Provision of more than normally high boundary walls (ranging between 8 feet to 18 feet); passage/ terrace/ balcony parapet walls (about 7 feet high); 2 nos. security gates within the compound; ample free area within the overall compound that could be sufficient enough to land helicopters therein; and natural camouflage provided by distantly surrounding hillocks and thick cover provided by trees-- all this seems to be work of well thought-out and strategical painstaking planning.

• Last, but strangely, as far as the initial reports are tumbling out-- no dungeons, or underground hideouts, or bunkers, or stuff like this were found in the building. It could however be possible, upon further scrutiny and/or release of information by agencies involved in cleaning up the act, that underground connecting escape tunnels and/or more hideouts be found out making more skeletons to tumble out nailing the never ending lies of Pakistan establishments of not harboring and nurturing terrorists as well as terror related propaganda.

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Disclaimer: This post is essentially an assimilation of inferences/ references/ etc. drawn from various inputs available all around the world wide web. This blog however is and/or will not be in a position to authenticate the veracity of the facts, images, inferences, references, etc. as such in any manner whatsoever. Images & primary content sources are 'Various' that primarily include- cnn(dot)com, businessinsider(dot)com, etc.

If you are an Indian and own a property in Delhi, then be reminded that in ideal circumstances one need to pay his/her/their Municipal Corporation Department's (MCD) PROPERTY TAX by June 30th of the respective calender year so as to avail an additional 15% rebate on the overall tax amount (but, if paid as lump sum amount, and not as part amount).

The usual rebates (like that for properties owned by Senior Citizens, Women, Physically Challenged, Ex-Servicemen; DDA Residential; Village Abadi; Group Housing Flats, etc.) and the other exemptions (like for certain cases registered as Agricultural lands, Vacant Land or Building in Village abadi occupied for residential purpose, Lands exclusively used for public worship, Lands used for Public Charity, Lands used as burial/ cremation ground, Heritage lands and buildings, Lands owned by war widow / Gallantry Award winner being permanently used for self, and Lands and buildings of Corporation, etc.) can still be availed on case to case basis (if applicable) besides this 15% rebate on timely and lump sum payment before or after the deadline of June 30.

Here's what you need to do...

• Log on to the home page of MCD property tax website (direct weblink provided end the end of this post as ready reference)

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• Click here to go to the webpage to generate the online form, generate online payment challan, and surf the webpages ahead to pay by Cheque or a Demand Draft or Cash, as well as for ONLINE PAYMENT through Credit Card

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• In case one wish to pay by ITZ payment gateway after one has generated the online challan, then one can reach directly by clicking here

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• Manual Forms for property tax submission can be downloaded following this link here

The MCD's website assists you in carrying out the following:

• Online filling of your Property Tax Return Form
• Calculating your Property Tax for the any Financial Year
• Printing out your copy of the Property Tax Return
• Assisting you in making the Payment of the Tax
• Getting a Receipt of the Payments that you have made

One has the options to Pay his/her Property Tax by means of:

• By Cheque/DD/Bankers Cheque to any AXIS Bank Branch (Delhi and NCR only) and at Selected HDFC bank branches
• By Cash at any AXIS Bank Branch (Delhi and NCR only) and selected HDFC Bank Branches upto Rs. 2000/-
• Pay Online using your Credit Card
• Pay Online using your ItzCash Card/Visit ItzCash World to pay in cash

A few of the important and informative weblinks present at the MCD's website are furnished hereunder for ready reference and serving as a ready-reckoner for our readers / visitors for perusing the most sought after information relating to filing of the property tax:

• Help/ About Property Tax
• Zone List
• MCD Colony List
• Ward List
• Rebates and Exemptions
• Covered Area Calculations
• Property Tax Rates
• Viewing/ Printing Printing Receipts 
• Viewing Dishonoured Cheques Status
• Lodging Grievances
• Knowing Grievance Status

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Related links of use:
www.mcdpropertytax.in    |    www.mcdonline.gov.in
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Blog Post Title:  
[Delhi-NCR]: MCD Property Tax | Online submission of MCD Property Tax | FAQs about MCD Property Tax

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