Apartments in Bangalore

Bangalore Citizen often confuse with Bangalore One and BBMP One. Earlier Bangalore One used to collect property taxes but in current Year property tax is collected only at BBMP One but people gather at Bangalore One centers to pay their property tax confusing BBMP One and Bangalore One as same.

“Bangalore One” center are run by the e-governance department and provides a host of citizen services from accepting payment of phone bills to booking of tickets. While “BBMP One” is re-christen of BBMP help centers mooted by ABIDe (Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure and Development) task force for providing BBMPs civic services.

Earlier Bangalore One used to collect property taxes but in current tax period 2009-10 BBMP has opened its own help center to accept the payment. Bangalore One and BBMP One sounds similar and citizen gather at Bangalore One to pay their property tax and turns irritated when they told they have to go BBMP citizen center to pay property tax for 2009-10.

Last Saturday, people gathered at Bangalore One to pay their property tax 2009-10 and turned irate when they told that they had to pay their tax at Palike Help Center. After this incident, Bangalore One centers posted notice stating property tax has to be paid at Palike Help Center.

BBMP officials admitted that it had caused quite a bit of confusion and the name was given only on ABIDe’s insistence. Now BBMP officials are calling BBMP One as Palike Help Centers or Contact Points to avoid confusion. Bangalore citizen can continue enjoying the service of Bangalore One from accepting payment of phone bills to booking of tickets except payment of property tax. BBMP accepts property tax for 2009-10 at BBMP One and also accept online at BBMP official site.

Links to Reference:

ABIDe Moots BBMP One Centres

Bangalore One- BBMP One Not One

Bangalore One

BBMP