Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation ( PCMC ) has served notices to owners of 52,787 properties not registered with the tax department. The properties were identified during the ongoing property assessment survey carried out by the civic body. A senior PCMC official said that the owners of 4,261 properties have paid their pending dues after they were served notices, and their properties are now registered with the civic body's tax department.
The municipal officials have identified over 2 lakh properties across the city that are not registered with the tax department. The civic officials started sending notices to the owners of these properties, and they have been urged to register their objections with the municipal corporation, if any. "A total of 22,582 property owners have registered their objections to the notices so far.
We have issued final bills to 16,953 of them after receiving necessary documents," a senior PCMC official said. The civic body has completed the process of geo-sequencing 8.55 lakh properties across the city, while the internal measurement of 5.
32 lakh of these properties is also completed. Earlier in July this year, the municipal corporation also started a drone survey to identify the unassessed properties in its jurisdiction. "We have provided a QR Code on the special notice-1 served to property owners, using which they can register their objections online with the municipal corporation," municipal commissioner Shekhar Singh said.
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