29 government departments owe Rs 150 cr to Karnal Municipal Corporation: The Tribune India

Tribune press service

Karnal, September 16

Battling the financial crisis, the Karnal Municipal Corporation (KMC) began the process of collecting property taxes from Union departments and state governments.

September 25 deadline for state departments

At the request of the ministries, we re-surveyed their properties. I had an interaction with officials from various departments of the state government, in which the deadline of September 25 was given for the assessment of their land rights. Dr Manoj Kumar, Commissioner, KMC

17 of the state; 12 centers

• The KMC is to recover Rs 250 crore from various “defaults”, of which 29 departments are defaulting by nearly Rs 150 crore.
• No less than 17 state government departments have an outstanding amount of Rs 51.17 crore, while 12 Union government departments are in default of over Rs 98 crore.

The KMC is to recover Rs 250 crore from various “defaults”, of which 29 departments are in default of nearly Rs 150 crore. No less than 17 state government departments have an outstanding amount of Rs 51.17 while 12 departments of the Union government are in default of over Rs 98 crore.

The KMC gave a September 25 deadline for state government departments to assess their dues and subsequently seek approval from their departments to deposit the pending amount. The KMC commissioner also had an interaction with officials of these departments on Wednesday. Previously, he had interacted with the heads of central government departments, asking them to initiate the process of filing dues.

“At the request of the ministries, we re-surveyed their properties. I had an interaction with officials from various departments of the state government, during which the deadline of September 25 was given for the assessment of their property rights, ”said Dr Manoj Kumar, commissioner, KMC.

A sum of Rs 29.63 crore is pending with Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban, Rs 3.36 crore with UHBVN, Rs 10.77 crore with Haryana Agriculture University Regional Station, Uchani, Rs 22.97 lakh with the Department of ‘Agriculture, Rs 5.35 lakh with BDPO office, Rs 49.62 lakh with public health and engineering department, Rs 2.29 crore with PWD (B&R), Rs 4.88 lakh with RTO Department office transport, Rs 7.85 lakh from the livestock department, Rs 76.75 lakh from the SP office, Rs 40.79 lakh from the fisheries department, Rs 90.97 lakh with the sports department, Rs 5.69 lakh with Hafed, Rs 1.60 crore with the tourism department, Rs 15 lakh with the civilian hospital, Rs 37 with Bal Bhawan and others, the commissioner said.

NDRI, IIWBR, CSSRI, NBAGR, IARI regional station and sugarcane breeding institute are among the failing departments of the Union government, the commissioner said.