BMC targets Rs 150 crore revenue in 2018-19

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has targeted to achieve Rs 150 crore revenue by means of the top of present fiscal. If met, the quantity shall be Rs 15 crore greater than what used to be amassed during the previous fiscal.

So far, the civic frame has mopped up Rs 60 crore from retaining tax, industry license charge, advertisement license and miscellaneous products and services that it provides. In 2017-18 fiscal, it had generated Rs 135 crore.

The civic frame, on the other hand, won’t be able to acquire consumer charge, some other significant factor of revenue as it's been combating the consumer charge case in the Orissa prime courtroom with some citizens, who have long gone against the move. User charge got here into power in 2015. After a year of implementation, citizens adversarial it. User charge is amassed for spitting in public, littering public street with family waste and stacking building particles.

A BMC officer mentioned they have got been able to generate Rs 18 crore of retaining tax, Rs 3 crore from industry license and Rs 10 crore from advertisement license and Rs 29 crore from components akin to rent of kalyan mandaps, jatri niwas, parking charge till January finish. “We generate about 65% of the targeted revenue in February and March because people keep ready till March to pay other charge. In 2017-18 fiscal, we had targeted Rs 120 crore but as a result of aggressive assortment, we generated Rs 15 crore greater than the objective,” mentioned an officer of BMC.

From retaining tax by myself, the civic frame hopes Rs 60 crore to carry to its coffers. “In 2017-18, retaining tax target used to be Rs 45 crore, but we won Rs 41 crore. “Like the previous year, we will be able to checklist the names of retaining tax defaulters. Last year, only a week sooner than the top of economic year, we had submit names of 253 defaulters out of which only one person turned as much as pay the dues. But this time, we will be able to achieve this in the first week of March,” the officer added.


Last fiscal, the civic frame had not fared well in the number of industry license charge. It used to be simply Rs four.98 crore up from 2016-17 fiscal. “We could possibly obtain Rs 7 crore from industry license charge.


In December, BMC began enumeration of traders to carry them underneath the ambit of industry license charge. The bodily verification will assist BMC know if any trader has lately arrange his industry but has not voluntarily obtained a registration.


For quite a lot of trades and size of the industry, there are other slabs of license charge. So far, there are nearly 31,000 traders registered to pay industry license charge. But on a coarse estimate there are nonetheless five,000 traders outside the ambit of license administration.


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