Assistant Commissioner, Nehru Nagar Zone, also faces heat for not keeping tabs on working of the Tax Department
Nagpur: Acting tough, the Municipal Commissioner and Administrator Radhakrishnan B on Thursday suspended five employees of NMC’s Property Tax Department in Nehru Nagar Zone for dereliction of duty.
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25 April 2025
The Top NMC Boss paid a surprise visit to Nehru Nagar Zone on Wednesday and during inspection of records noticed that the five employees in the Property Tax Department were slow in disposing of official files. Taking serious note of the laxity on part of the employees, the civic body chief ordered their suspension.
Expressing severe displeasure over slack working of Tax Department and poor supervision, Radhakrishnan B also ordered withholding one salary increment of Tax Superintendent. Also, he directed issuance of show cause notice to Assistant Commissioner, Nehru Nagar Zone, as to why action should not be initiated against him for not keeping tabs on working of the Tax Department. Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Milind Meshram and Assistant Commissioner Ashok Patil were present during the visit of Municipal Commissioner.
Under the service fortnight, the services of the Property Tax Department must be made available to the citizens on time. Five employees of this zone were found to have not expedited the process of initiating recovery from the defaulters. During checking of record it was noticed that 21,000 property owners have not yet cleared their arrears that are now pegged at Rs. 15.92 crore and the employees in the Tax Department did not take necessary action to initiate the process to serve notices and attach property of defaulters.
Radhakrishnan B expressed displeasure over the slackness on part of employees in not following the set procedures as property tax is now the single biggest source of earnings for the civic body. The employees Jawahar Dhongde, Swapnil Patil, Hemant Chamat were directly suspended for not processing the application related to mutation that ultimately impacted tax collection. Ashok Giri, Revenue Inspector, Amit Damankar, Tax Collector, were both suspended for their unauthorised absence. He also ordered to complete the pending works related to transfer of property, tax assessment within 48 hours.
The Commissioner under the zone directed the confiscation of property of 21,000 citizens to recover property tax of 15.92 crores. Property Tax recovery of NMC was far from satisfactory and the main reason is slackness on part of employees posted in zones. While there is no concrete proof as to any financial dealings, the way employees are sitting upon basic work of issuing notices indicates all is not well within the civic body.
Thursday’s action on part of Municipal Commissioner should serve as warning to other lax employees as they too might be on radar as a comprehensive review might be on cards.
