GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar has directed the zonal commissioners,
special officers and deputy commissioners to focus on top 1,000
defaulters from whom 80 p.c. of the property tax is due but constitute
just 20 p.c. of owners.

The commissioner held a review meeting
with officials here on Saturday and directed them to work more
proactively, strategically and collectively at all levels while
collecting property tax, concentrate more on huge dues. He said Rs 243
crore had to be collected from the top 1,000 defaulters.

He said
that Rs 1,779 crore is the demand for 2013-14 and the target is Rs 1,232
crore but the GHMC collected only Rs 500 crore till January 3. He said
41 percent of the target is the GHMC’s average collection and nine
circles collected below the average. These are Circles 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10 and 17.

He said that only 86 days were left for the end of
the financial year and the GHMC had to collect Rs 831 lakh a day to meet
the target and asked the deputy commissioners to reorganise bill
collectors by allotting equal docket numbers to each bill collector. 
The commissioner said that he would review the property tax collection
every week and  directed them to set Feb15 as the deadline and should
not wait till March 31. There are only 45 days more left in that case.

He
asked all the valuation officers to furnish the list of pending legal
cases to the head office along with their PTIN numbers in three days.
Kumar directed zonal commissioners to furnish the list of issues related
to property tax by Monday morning.