Unimpressed by the stay announced on levying non-agricultural (NA) Tax in the state Assembly by Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat on Tuesday, the Maharashtra State Co-op Housing Federation Ltd and District Housing Federation have decided to go ahead with their Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed before the Bombay High Court recently (March 2022), challenging the constitutional validity of the state in levying NA Tax. They have claimed that NA tax is arbitrary, leads to inequality and is misuse of the Maharashtra  Land Revenue Code and the Maharashtra  Town Planning Act.

The PIL demands that the entire NA tax should be abolished, as it is unconstitutional, where the state itself changes the usage of land from agriculture to non-agriculture, under the ambit of development activities like residential, industrial, commercial growth in urban, metro cities of Maharashtra, by approving the Development Plan.