The Sarguja division in the State has surpassed target in revenue collection in the area of minerals, prohibition,transport and registrations for the financial year 2012-13.
Commissioner M S Paikra held a review meeting of the officials of the aforesaid departments at his office here on Thursday.
The officials informed the Commissioner during the review meeting that the Minerals Department had recorded 189 per cent income while the revenue collected stood at Rs56.80 crore against the target of Rs30 crore.
The revenue collected by other departments in the division stood as follows against the target set for them – Balrampur-Ramanujganj (Rs53.8 crore against Rs45 crore), Surajpur (Rs153 crore against Rs150 crore), Korea (Rs22 crore against Rs20 crore), Jashpur (Rs3 crore against Rs2.57 crore), Sarguja (Rs27.25 crore against Rs 14.90 crore), Entertainment tax collected (Rs4.93 lakh against Rs4 lakh), Balrampur-Ramanujganj (Rs2 crore), Jashpur ( Rs12.60 crore against 10.80 crore), Surajpur (Rs15.37 crore against Rs12.83 crore), Korea (Rs22.98 crore against Rs22 crore) and Entertainment Tax ( Rs13.80 lakh against Rs 13 lakh) .
The Commissioner has directed to put an effective check on sale of illicit liquor in the division.
During the review of the revenue collection of the Transport Department , the officials informed that the revenue collections in the undivided Sarguja last year stood at Rs36.51 crore against target of Rs29.72 crore.
Similarly Jashpur district achieved revenue collection of Rs13.22 crore against the target of Rs11.81 crore. In Korea district a revenue of Rs7.69 crore was collected against the target of Rs6 crore.
During the meeting the Commissioner directed officials to pay special attention to over loading of vehicles and their fitness. On the occasion, the District Registrar informed that the districts of Sarguja, Korea, Surajpur and Balrampur-Ramanujganj had collected revenue of Rs56.67 crore against the target of Rs35 crore while Jashpur district collected revenue of Rs4.35 crore, he added.