Govt bodies owe Rs 509 cr to North Corporation in tax

NEW DELHI, 21 MAY: There are different
government organisations including Delhi Police, Northern Railways, Tata
Distribution Power Limited (TDPL), BSES Rajdhani, BSES Yamuna, Delhi
University, DDA and AIR (Prasar Bharati), who have not paid their
property taxes amounting to Rs 509 crore to the North Corporation.

 Prasar
Bharti and DDA are the biggest property tax defaulters with Rs 115.37
crore and Rs 216. 99 crore respectively. The Delhi Police’s default is
Rs 7.83 crore, the Northern Railways is Rs 77.63 crore and TPDDL’s Rs
20.27 crore. While BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna have to pay property
tax of Rs 3.46 crore and Rs 2.88 crore respectively. Delhi University is
liable to pay property tax of Rs 66.48 lakh.

 Similarly, four
five-star hotels in Pritampura of Rohini Zone ~ City Park Hotel, Hotel
Premiere Inn, Shalimar Bagh; Hotel Raddison Blue, Paschim Vihar; and
Hotel Crown Plaza, Rohini, Sector 10 ~ owe Rs 25. 52 crore, informed
Chairman of High Powered Property Tax Committee of North Corporation, Mr
Rajesh Bhatia.
Mr Bhatia said, “None of the defaulters would be spared as the property tax is the big source of income for the Corporation.”

Mr
Bhatia informed that due to the shortage of staff, the work of tax
collection and property survey is suffering. Wherein the property tax
department is facing acute shortage of staff with 43 posts of Assistant
Assessor and Collector, two posts of Superintendents, 30 posts of Head
Clerks/Zonal Inspectors, 145 posts of Upper Division Clerks and 43 posts
of Lower Division Clerks, lying vacant.