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Property owners successful the Secunderabad Cantonment area are severely distressed aft receiving notices from the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) connected the triennial revision of spot taxation with effect from the opening of Financial Year 2025-26, with revised demands showing increases ranging from 100% to much than 300% successful respective cases.
The Rajiv Rahadari Property Owners’ Joint Action Committee (JAC) has termed the hike arbitrary and unjustified, saying it has near hundreds of the Cantonment residents successful daze and fiscal anxiety. According to the residents, the taxation revision notices were served past week.
As portion of the notice, the yearly ratable worth of properties has been reassessed and taxation revised accordingly. “In accordance with the provisions of Section 80 of the Cantonments Act 2006, this bureau has re-assessed the spot for the play 2025-26 to beryllium effectual from April 1, 2025,” said the announcement issued by the Chief Executive Officer of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board.
Residents talk connected impact
The interaction of the revision has been important for galore households. For Mahavir Prasad’s spot successful Kakaguda, the existing yearly taxation of ₹17,226 has been projected to beryllium accrued to ₹54,420. Similarly, for P. Padmanabha Reddy’s spot successful Vasavi Colony, the taxation has been revised from ₹36,288 to ₹86,184.
Objections tin beryllium filed
The announcement besides provided residents an accidental to record objections. “If you privation to rise immoderate objections to the projected appraisal arsenic above, an exertion should beryllium made successful penning wrong 30 days time. The objection should intelligibly authorities successful what respect the valuation oregon appraisal is disputed,” it said.
On Saturday (January 17, 2026), members of the Rajiv Rahadari JAC met Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender and submitted a practice seeking his intervention. “The abrupt and steep summation has travel astatine a clip erstwhile the Telangana authorities has initiated steps for roadworthy widening and the projected elevated corridor of SH-1. Due to the uncertainty surrounding acquisition and demolition, astir of the main roadworthy properties are already vacant, tenants are vacating and successful galore cases rents person been drastically reduced,” the practice said.
Continue existing taxation structure
The JAC further argued that nether specified circumstances, imposing an abnormal and retrospective hike successful spot taxation is not lone arbitrary but besides inhumane. It has requested that the existing taxation operation beryllium continued until the roadworthy widening and elevated corridor task is completed and clarity is provided to the affected spot owners.
Calls and messages to Secunderabad Cantonment Board Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Kumar Dwivedi, seeking his effect went unanswered till the clip of filing this report.
