Under the speedy actions on tax collection being taken by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC), the squad collected Rs60 lakh on Sunday. Notably, on Sunday, the BMC squad organised special camps for tax collection in various areas of the city and the citizens also took full fledged advantage of these camps. Providing the citizens with the facility of easy tax payment, all the offices of BMC in wards are operational on weekends and other public holidays. In the similar chain, special camps were organised at various colonies on Sunday for the tax payment, so that citizens could have an easy access to tax payment.
On Sunday, a total of approximately Rs60 lakh was recovered including the property and water tax. Further, while taking stern actions against the defaulters under the revenue recovery camp, the BMC squad attached the properties of 17 defaulters and severed 48 tap connections. Implementing the instructions of Mayor Alok Sharma and BMC Commissioner Tejaswi S Naik, BMC while taking the speedy action in revenue recovery, the squad recovered the tax from zone 1 to 15.
The squad took the similar action at all the wards of the city from 9 am. The squad recovered approximately Rs2 lakh from zone 1, Rs11 lakh from zone 2. The squad while taking action recovered the tax amount of Rs1 lakh from zone 3, Rs4 lakh from zone 4, Rs1 lakh from zone 5, Rs4 lakh from zone 6, Rs1 lakh from zone 7, Rs6 lakh, from zone 8, Rs1 lakh from zone 9, Rs2 lakh from zone 10, Rs6 lakh from zone 11, Rs1 lakh from zone 12, Rs4 lakh from zone 13, and Rs1 lakh from zone 14, Rs9 lakh from zone 15.
Further, the BMC squad attached the properties of 17 defaulters under which three were from zone 1, three from zone 3, five from zone five, four from zone 13, and two from zone 14, respectively and severed 48 tap connections in zone 1, 2, 3, 5, 13 and 14. The BMC squad has appealed to the citizens to pay the taxes on time and before the deadline in the respective ward offices of their area to save themselves from any stern consequence.