NMC slaps Rs7 crore tax notice on RTO’s Rs15 crore building
Proshun Chakraborty | tnn | Mar 8, 2019, 04:57 IST
Nagpur: Even though the rural RTO is yet to occupy its office in the new under construction ground plus three-stories building worth Rs15 crore, it has already defaulted property tax of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) to the tune of Rs7 crore.
Now, the NMC’s tax department has asked the RTO (Nagpur rural), Teka Naka, to clear the dues before March 31 this year.
Confirming this, a senior official from NMC’s tax department said the department has calculated the outstanding property tax of the RTO since 2012. While RTO Shripad Wadekar was not available for comment, a senior official from his office said the department has already approached the transport commissioner’s office in Mumbai for making financial provision to clear the tax dues.
The officer expressed concern over tardy progress of the new premises. He pointed out that with no faults of theirs, it is being forced to pay property tax of two premises the existing Lalgodam office and of the new under construction building.
At present, the rural RTO is operating from Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Teka Naka area on a monthly rent of Rs25,000. The office was shifted to FCI godown in 2008. So far the transport department has paid over Rs40 lakh as rent to the FCI. Besides this, the transport department is also paying Rs70,000 property tax per annum of the said premises.
Sources said, after much delay, in 2014 the government sanctioned the proposal to construct own building for rural RTO. The project cost has already gone up from Rs5.13 crore to Rs15 crore now. The deadline for completing the three-storey building was October 2015 but it is still not completed.
The building is almost ready only electrification and installation of escalator works are pending.
Rural RTO office, which is also a regional head office in Vidarbha, not only caters to motorists of 13 tehsil places of the district including Hingna, Saoner, Parsheoni, Mouda, Ramtek, Umred, Bhiwapur, Katol and Butibori, but also covers Gondia, Bhandara, Chandrapur, and Gadchiroli districts.
People visiting the office face a lot of problems. Right from proper counters to basic facilities like lavatories and drinking water, the current premises of FCI godown lacks all these infrastructures.
Now, the NMC’s tax department has asked the RTO (Nagpur rural), Teka Naka, to clear the dues before March 31 this year.
Confirming this, a senior official from NMC’s tax department said the department has calculated the outstanding property tax of the RTO since 2012. While RTO Shripad Wadekar was not available for comment, a senior official from his office said the department has already approached the transport commissioner’s office in Mumbai for making financial provision to clear the tax dues.
The officer expressed concern over tardy progress of the new premises. He pointed out that with no faults of theirs, it is being forced to pay property tax of two premises the existing Lalgodam office and of the new under construction building.
At present, the rural RTO is operating from Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Teka Naka area on a monthly rent of Rs25,000. The office was shifted to FCI godown in 2008. So far the transport department has paid over Rs40 lakh as rent to the FCI. Besides this, the transport department is also paying Rs70,000 property tax per annum of the said premises.
Sources said, after much delay, in 2014 the government sanctioned the proposal to construct own building for rural RTO. The project cost has already gone up from Rs5.13 crore to Rs15 crore now. The deadline for completing the three-storey building was October 2015 but it is still not completed.
The building is almost ready only electrification and installation of escalator works are pending.
Rural RTO office, which is also a regional head office in Vidarbha, not only caters to motorists of 13 tehsil places of the district including Hingna, Saoner, Parsheoni, Mouda, Ramtek, Umred, Bhiwapur, Katol and Butibori, but also covers Gondia, Bhandara, Chandrapur, and Gadchiroli districts.
People visiting the office face a lot of problems. Right from proper counters to basic facilities like lavatories and drinking water, the current premises of FCI godown lacks all these infrastructures.
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