The Mhow administration has published the name of 100 big defaulters of land who have not paid diversion tax to the government which has reached in crores till date the name of the defaulter’s include real state builders and colonizers who have come up with various colony projects in Mhow tehsil in last few years.
These colonizers have not deposited the diversion tax since many years and now the total revenue tax has reached in crores. Mhow tehsil which is a vast land bank of Indore district has witnessed a rapid colonization in past few years and in this process the hundreds of acres of cultivable land which was in green belt have been converted into the cement concrete jungles.
Complaints regarding colonizers encroaching upon nearby lands have also reached the administration. On the instruction of Indore collector Lokesh Jatav, a complete survey is going on in the Indore district of the total colonization in Indore district and also how much cultivable farm land has been converted into the colonies and how much government land has been encroached in past years.
Mhow tehsildar Dhirendra Parashar told The Pioneer that Mhow SDM Anshul Gupta has catogerised the total land of Mhow tehsil. The names of land defaulters are now regularly being published as information to the common man.
In the first step we are coming up with publication of name of owners of lands of colonies, then land of ware house cold storage and godowns then name of schools then marriage garden.
We will also publish the name of the people who have chopped the trees of forest land and have done encroachment.