Curation Team
LUDHIANA: With just a week to go for residents to pay the pending property tax without any interest and penalty, MC commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal has appealed to them to avail themselves of the benefits of the one-time settlement (OTS) scheme by submitting their dues by July 31.
The MC chief has asked zonal commissioners and superintendents, and other officials to expedite the recovery of dues from residents and crack the whip on defaulters. He held a meeting with them at the zone ‘D’ office of the civic body in Sarabha Nagar Thursday. MC additional commissioner Paramdeep Singh, assistant commissioner (UT) Pragati Rani, zonal commissioners Abhishek Sharma (zone A), Neeraj Jain (zone B), Gurpal Singh (zone C), and Jasdev Singh Sekhon (zone D), among other officials, were in attendance at the meeting.
Similar directions have also been issued to officials of the operations and maintenance (O&M) cell for the recovery of water/sewer bills from the residents.
Civic officials said property tax must be paid after self-assessment every year. If the property owner fails to pay the tax, the civic body levies a 20% penalty and 18% annual interest on the pending amount. Under the newly launched OTS scheme, residents can now submit the pending tax by July 31, without any penalty or interest. They can pay do so at the suvidha kendras situated in the zonal offices of the civic body.
MC Suvidha Kendras to remain open this weekend
To help the residents submit the pending property tax on time, MC commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal has ordered that the zonal suvidha kendras of the civic body will remain open on Saturday (July 26) and Sunday (July 27).
