Sunil Kumar, deputy commissioner of Hazaribagh, reviewed the present status of revenue collection by different departments during this fiscal year and gave directives to the officers of various departments to increase the collection.
The review meeting took place in the meeting hall of collectorate in which the officers of different departments presented their reports. The sales tax department has collected Rs3178.83 lakhs during this fiscal year. DC Sunil Kumar directed them to make stock verification of different coal companies and then go through their assessments so that the state could get actual revenue.
District transport officer Satish Chandra informed that last month during checking he had collected Rs. 1.62 lakhs as fine from the vehicles. DC directed him to report to him daily about the checking drive and fine collected. Sunil Kumar directed the circle officers to submit a detailed report of mining leases in their blocks and what revenue the government is getting from it. DC ordered the district fishery officer to use ponds of MNREGA scheme for pisciculture.
AC Ranjan Choudhary reported that during this fiscal year 4,163 cases of transfer of names on land documents were disposed and as 'sairat' Rs. 47.34 lakh was collected. The district also got Rs. 344.73 lakhs by disposing 399 certificate cases. DC directed all the COs to send a report to the banks so that they can delete the disposed cases from their list and to dispose such cases at block level by organising special camps.
DC directed the district transport officer to issue notices to all tax defaulter vehicle owners and to the officers of weight and measurement to organize special camps at different market localities to check the weight and measurement tools. He directed the executive officer of municipal council to check the advertisement hoardings of his area and to submit a report on revenue collection through these hoardings.
Trainee IAS Harshika Singh, AC Ranjan Choudhary and Krishnakumar Sahu, SDO Rajeev Ranjan and Nurul Hoda, lRDC Gaurang Mahto and all COs and other officers were present in this meeting.