Over Rs4 crore were recovered from over 3000 cases settled in the Mega lok Adalat held here on Saturday under the National lok Adalat.
The cases settled in the mega lok Adalat were of Bhopal Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) property tax and surcharge levied over it. Besides, 818 cases of water tax were also settled and Rs2,87,572 were recovered under the head of Solid Waste management.
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 centers and by organizing 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 centers 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 centers 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.