Kathmandu Metropolitan City Adjusts Rental Tax Rates and Announces New Health and Education Initiatives

Kathmandu. Kathmandu Metropolitan City has adjusted the rental tax rates for the upcoming fiscal year. Acting Chief Sunita Dangol informed about the adjustment in rental tax while presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Thursday.

Similarly, the KMC will also bring programs to provide a 10 percent discount to taxpayers who pay their taxes by the end of Ashwin (mid-October) and waive penalties for taxpayers who clear their outstanding taxes by the end of Ashwin, bringing taxpayers who were not within the tax bracket into the tax bracket.

For residential purposes, if the rental income from houses and land rented out is less than Rs 240,000 per year, the rental tax will be five percent, and for residential purposes with rental income exceeding Rs 240,000, the rental tax will be reduced from the previous 10 percent to seven percent.

To enhance ownership and trust in taxes, recommendation fees have been waived for some titles. It has been proposed to collaborate with stakeholders, including experts, to analyze taxes and increase the tax bracket, and to broaden the tax bracket by associating taxpayers with professional organizations.

KMC to Build Its Own Hospital

KMC has decided to build a Metropolitan Hospital starting from the upcoming fiscal year. Rs 40 million has been allocated for the first year of hospital construction under a multi-year plan. "Arrangements have been made to conduct yoga practice programs in every locality," said Dangol in the presented budget, adding, "Rs 10 million has been allocated for senior citizen pneumonia vaccination. Budget has been arranged to conduct special programs for the diagnosis of incurable diseases like cancer. Rs 20 million has been allocated for the establishment of an integrated health waste management center."

The program of free ambulance service has been continued, and Rs 5 million has been set aside to start legal and necessary management work for the establishment of Swarnigah University, as mentioned in the budget. Similarly, Rs 160 million has been allocated for the nutrition allowance program.

Online Application Reopened for Final Nomination for Scholarships

Kathmandu Metropolitan City has reopened online applications for the final nomination for scholarships to study in grades 11 and 12 in the academic session 2083/84. Stating that the priority of subjects and educational institutions can be chosen once again, KMC has reopened online applications for the final nomination for scholarships, informed KMC Education Officer Namraj Dhakal.

According to Dhakal, the scholarship examination committee published on Thursday has informed the examinees who were not selected in the first and second nomination lists and wish to be included in the final nomination (wrap-up) to choose the priority of subjects and educational institutions and fill out the online form.

For this year, KMC had determined 4,857 quotas in 145 educational institutions. After 3,051 students from the first nomination list and 230 from the second list were selected, the remaining 1,576 quotas have been provided an opportunity to choose subjects and educational institutions, informed Dhakal, who is also the coordinator of the examination committee.

The notice has been published for the final nomination (wrap-up) in the remaining subject-wise seats in the institutional educational institutions operating under KMC, based on the details of students admitted within the stipulated period from the first and second nomination lists, updated by the educational institutions.

Applications opened on Thursday at 10:00 AM. Applications must be submitted by Saturday, Ashar 8 (June 22), at 5:00 PM. Students can choose the subject and educational institution they wish to study only after confirming the vacant educational institutions. Based on the final nomination, the final nomination will be made on a subject-wise basis according to the overall merit of the students.

From the first matching list of the scholarship selection examination within KMC, 3,051 students were admitted to the scholarship quota. Among the students whose names were published in the final list of the scholarship selection examination merit order, 3,735 students were in the first nomination list (matching list). These students were given time to get admitted by Jestha 27 (June 10). Among them, 1,901 students were admitted in Science, 1,111 in Management, 34 in Law, and 5 in Humanities. After entering the details of the students admitted into the software, the examination committee published the names of 486 students in the second list of the matching list based on the remaining vacant seats. The preliminary merit list was published on Jestha 18 (June 1) and the final list on Jestha 21 (June 4) for the scholarship selection examination held on Jestha 17 (June 0).