Over Rs7 crore were recovered from over 6,328 cases settled in the Mega lok Adalat held here on Sunday. It was conducted under the National lok Adalat. The cases settled in the Adalat were of Bhopal Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) property tax and surcharge levied over it.
Besides, water tax cases were also settled and Rs3,53,166 were recovered under the head of Solid Waste management.Notably, the Mega lok Adalat began from Saturday and continued till late night. Under the same action 6328 cases were settled here on Saturday. As per the instructions of the Government and BMC general council decision a rebate of six per cent on property tax and five per cent rebate on surcharge levied over it for the financial year 2014-15 was provided while settling the cases. Comprehensive arrangements were made by the BMC for settling the pending property tax cases in all the 85 wards, 07 public facilitation centres and by organising camps at many other places.
Senior BMC officials including Commissioner Tejaswi S Nayak, additional commissioner GP Mali, deputy commissioner - revenue, deputy commissioner property tax and others continuously kept an eye on the ongoing process for whole day and kept on issuing necessary instructions wherever required. Huge rush was witnessed at the settlement centres and the process was on till the filing of this report.BMC Commissioner who was monitoring the process also held discussions with the people reaching at various centres and also lauded and encouraged the efforts of the tax payers for depositing the taxes. He also called on the people who are paying tax to inspire others for paying taxes.