The Times of India 19.03.2014
NMC cuts over 400 connections
NASHIK:
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has disconnected 409 more
connections of water tax defaulters across the city in the last seven
days.
With the fresh disconnections, the civic body has snapped
a total of 1,093 water connections in the last three weeks. This is
part of the NMC administration’s action against water tax defaulters.
A total of 380 water connections have been cut in the Cidco division of
the municipal corporation alone. In the other areas, 306 connections
have been disconnected in Panchavati, 143 in Nashik Road, 125 in Satpur,
118 in Nashik East and 21 water connections have been snapped in the
Nashik West division.
An NMC official said, “We have
intensified our drive against the water tax defaulter. So far, we have
snapped water connections of around 1,093 water tax defaulters in the
last few days. We will continue our drive of disconnecting water
connections of water tax defaulters. We have set the water tax
collection target of Rs 53.82 crore for the current fiscal year 2013-14.
Till date (by March 18) in the current fiscal, we have collected water
tax amounting to Rs 29.85 crore.”
He also said, “Our objective
is to achieve the water tax collection target set for the current fiscal
year by March end. But, we could collect only 55% of the total water
tax collection.”
There are a total 1.74 lakh water connections
across the NMC’s six divisions – 54,657 water connections in the Cidco
division, 32,112 in Panchavati, 27,257 in Nashik Road, 26,408 in Nashik
East, 24,026 in Satpur and 9,697 water connections in Nashik West
division of NMC.
