AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis pay the sixth highest per capita property tax in India at Rs 1,565, but the AMC records a more stunning statistic in its service of Amdavadis - the corporation deploys only four employees per 1,000 population. In contrast, Panaji's municipal corporation, the world's smallest, has assigned 19 employees per 1,000 citizens.
A recent Union ministry of urban development's presentation had compared 37 major municipal corporations on various parameters. On civic employees per 1,000 population, the ministry's data shows that Mumbai and Kolkata have eight staffers. The report puts Delhi behind Ahmedabad: the national capital has three employees per 1,000 population. Corporations that fare even worse are those of Kochi, Vijayawada, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, and Bhopal with two employees.
