The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is taking speedy action in tax collection. 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 here on Sunday for the tax payment, so that citizens could have an easy access to tax payment.
On Sunday, a total of approximately Rs23 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 three defaulters and severed five tap connections. Implementing the instructions of Mayor Alok Sharma and BMC Commissioner Tjaswi S Naik, BMC while taking the speedy action in revenue recovery, the squad recovered the tax from zone 01 to 15.
The squad took the similar action at all the wards of the city from 9 am. The squad recovered approximately Rs1 lakh at zone 01, Rs3 lakh, at zone 02. The squad while taking action recovered the tax amount of Rs36,000 from zone 03, Rs3 lakh from zone 04, Rs48,000 from zone 05, Rs71,000 from zone 06, Rs1 lakh from zone 07, Rs1 lakh, from zone 08, Rs1 lakh from zone 09, Rs1 lakh from zone 10, Rs96,000 from zone 11, Rs44,000 from zone 12, Rs4 lakh from zone 13, and Rs1 lakh from zone 14, Rs2 lakh from zone 15.
Further, the BMC squad attached the properties of three defaulters in zone 1 and zone 3 respectively and severed five tap connections in zone 4.
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. The squad has further appealed the citizens to pay the taxes till March 31 positively.