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The residents of Tambaram Corporation, who were already burdened by the arbitrary revision of the spot taxation successful 2022, person different daze to negociate with the latest revision of piped h2o and underground drainage taxation rates.
The revised taxation operation had travel into effect from January 2026 with the passing of the Government Order done the Chengalpattu territory connected September 24, 2025.
V.S. Jayaraman, a nonmigratory of Chromepet, said usually for a two-bedroom flat successful Chromepet, the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation has been levying h2o charges of ₹50.50 per month, but from April this year, the Corporation, without immoderate anterior intimation to consumers, has revised the charges to ₹150.50 per month. The three-fold revision successful the h2o charges has shocked the residents.
Mr. Jayaraman said that usually immoderate revision of specified benignant should beryllium made lone aft consultation with assorted stakeholders — residents, traders, and commercialized establishments. However, implementing the three-fold summation without immoderate nationalist discussions shows the autocratic mode the section assemblage was functioning in.
While the caller h2o taxation measure being charged successful Tambaram Corporation has travel arsenic a daze to the residents, the residents person been complaining of a immense hike successful the spot taxation which was revised successful 2024.
Social activistic Dayanand Krishnan, who had done a comparative survey of the spot taxation charged by the Tambaram Corporation with the Chennai Corporation, has recovered that the taxation complaint has been done successful an arbitrary manner, that determination has been a hike of astir 615%.
Mr. Krishnan said that for a 1,500 sq. ft. level successful Chitlapakkam, the half-yearly taxation complaint nether the municipality panchayat was ₹1,733, whereas the caller taxation charged is ₹12,398. He said that not adjacent successful Anna Nagar was this benignant of spot taxation being collected, helium added.
The residents complained the spot taxation has been arrived astatine successful a mode based connected the localities of precocious commercialized imaginable zones. If a commercialized spot is located connected the GST Road, it is charged astatine a complaint of ₹32 per sq. ft. irrespective of whether the spot it is located either successful Tambaram oregon Chromepet.
A elder authoritative of the Tambaram Corporation said the spot taxation rates were being levied based connected the taxation rates projected successful the Government Order issued successful 2022.
