The State Government has collected revenues worth Rs 605.18 crore from property registration and stamp duty collections during the last financial year.
The revenue collected so far is six per cent higher than the corresponding period of the previous year, according to an official Press release issued here on Friday. The information was provided at a review meeting chaired by Commercial Tax Minister Amar Agrawa.
The Commercial Tax department has now set the revenue collection target from registration of property and stamp duty receipts at Rs 1150 crore for financial year 2013-14 with 62 per cent of the revenue already collected so far. Secretary, Prohibition and Registration RS Vishwakarma informed in the meeting that during April-December period last year, more than 1.50 lakh documents were registered in the State.
Compared to this, during the financial year 2013-14, more than 1.54 lakh documents had been registered by the month of December, Vishwakarma said.
The revenue collected during April-December period in the current financial year in thedistricts is as follows — Raipur (Rs 217.55 cr), Bilaspur (Rs 72.7 cr), Durg (Rs 93.95 cr), Rajnandgaon (Rs 23.35 cr), Janjgir-Champa (Rs 26.37 cr), Raigarh (Rs 25.92 cr), Surguja (Rs 17.86 cr), Bastar (Rs 10.69 cr), Korba (Rs 11.45 cr), Dhamtari (Rs 13.33 cr), Baloda Bazar (Rs 22.78 cr), Mungeli (Rs 8.94 cr), Bemetara (Rs 14.12 cr), Balod (Rs 8.36 cr), Gariaband (Rs 2.93 cr), Mahasamund (Rs 11.62 cr), Kabirdham (Rs 10.34 cr), Jashpur (Rs 3.56 cr), Korea (Rs 4.54 cr), Kanker (Rs 3.98 cr) and Dantewada (Rs 1.38 cr).
The total number of stamp duty cases registered during 2013 was 3,443 out of which 2120 cases had been redressed by December 2013 with the revenue receipt of Rs 8.40 cr, the officials informed.