Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has intensified its property tax recovery drive, targeting major defaulters in the Kachipura and Central Bazar Road areas under the Laxmi Nagar Zone.
The NMC Revenue Department has launched a special drive against prominent lawns, eateries and other properties with large outstanding tax dues. Tax inspectors carried out warrant action and issued notices to eight property owners, with total outstanding dues running into more than ₹8 crore.
Water and drainage connections may be disconnected
The notices warn property owners to clear their pending property tax dues, failing which the civic body may take further action, including disconnection of water supply.
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The NMC has also warned that it reserves the right to disconnect sewage and drainage outflow connections from the properties to the public network if the owners continue to default.
The civic body has been taking increasingly strict measures against major tax defaulters. While notices were earlier the primary action, the NMC has, over the past two years, also resorted to sealing and symbolic seizure of properties.
Somalwada property has highest outstanding dues
Among the properties targeted, open Plot No. 1924 in Somalwada, owned by Fatima Siddiqui, has the highest outstanding property tax liability of ₹4.74 crore, pending since 2001.
The notices issued by the Laxmi Nagar Zone include:
- Sai Vatika – Suresh Verma: ₹82.56 lakh outstanding since 2017
- Jagdish Saoji/Jagdish Kachi: ₹19.48 lakh outstanding since 2007
- Bharat Lawn – Mahesh Verma: ₹44.03 lakh outstanding since 2009
- Sanman Lawn, Santosh Bhojnalay and Sanman Nursery – Deorao Bhongade: ₹42.91 lakh outstanding since 2012
- Sujal Saoji – Jiyalal Shakya: ₹12.13 lakh outstanding since 2014
- Better Home – Dheeraj Shakya: ₹34.12 lakh outstanding since 2008
- Sardar Ki Rasoi – Babulal Shakya: ₹1.71 crore outstanding since 2008
- Open Plot No. 1924, Somalwada – Fatima Siddiqui: ₹4.74 crore outstanding since 2001
NMC sets ₹1,000 crore recovery target
The latest action is part of the NMC’s broader mission to recover outstanding property tax. The civic body has set an ambitious target of ₹1,000 crore in property tax collection by the end of September.
Officials are particularly focusing on large defaulters, hoping that recovery from high-value properties will significantly boost the corporation’s overall revenue collection.
The NMC has also been pursuing action against certain illegal occupants of properties, although some owners have obtained stays from the High Court against eviction proceedings. Meanwhile, tax recovery notices have been served on the concerned properties.
