Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) squad collected over Rs 72 lakh of dues and took action by attaching property of 11 tax evaders and disconnected 90 water supply connections on Sunday.
BMC has started revenue collection drive with few days remaining in the financial year as property taxes and water cess and action of attaching their properties and disconnection of water supply connection was done on Sunday.
For the convenience of taxpayers, the collection centers would remain open on holidays at all wards. All the offices at 85 wards and citizen facility centers were open on Sunday and the squad collected revenue of Rs 72, 17,407. While acting against tax evaders the squad attached property of 11 tax evaders and disconnected 90 water connections.
As the squad acted on Sunday against the tax evaders and pending water cess payers and taxes of other category it collected Rs 3,57,133 from Zone number one, from zone number two Rs 4,60,523, from zone number three it collected Rs 60,073, from zone number four and five Rs 3,31,398 and Rs 1,03,196 respectively, from zone number six Rs 3,00,917, from zone number seven Rs 5,02, 646, from zone number eight Rs 3,00,714, from zone number nine Rs 6,05,532, from zone number 10 Rs 3,49,401, from zone number 11 Rs 2,47,255, from zone number 12 Rs 1,38,137, from zone number 13 Rs 7,38,565, from zone number 14 Rs 2,58,978, from zone number 15 Rs 7,02,572, from zone number 16 Rs five lakh, from zone number 17 and 18 Rs 2,47,707 and Rs 5,75,030 respectively and from zone number 19 Rs 1, 37,630.
In the action against tax evaders the corporation attached five properties in zone number one and two each in zone number six, seven and nine. While taking action against the pending water cess payers the squad disconnected water connections; in zone number one 12connections were disconnected; in zone number two and four, six and 19 connections were disconnected respectively; in zone number six and seven each five connections were disconnected.