Prayagraj: The Prayagraj Municipal Corporation (PMC) has seized the bank account of Prayag Sangeet Samiti after it failed to clear house tax arrears of Rs 88 lakh.
The municipal corporation had sent a notice to the institution and a notice was also published in newspapers.
“We had issued a public notice, which was also published in the newspapers on January 10, wherein we had mentioned the names, addresses, dues and even the date of attachment of the property of the defaulters. Prayag Sangeet Samiti has to pay Rs 87, 92, 098 to the corporation as house tax. Since they failed to pay, we seized their bank account,” said chief tax officer PMC, PK Mishra. The officers said the drive is yielding good results after the newspaper notice. In case of Prayag Sangeet Samiti too, the corporation had sent a reminder for paying the dues. But when it failed to clear the dues, its account of Bank of Maharashtra located on Leader road was seized, informed Mishra.
PMC could have also seized the bank account of the district cooperative federation at George Town over Rs 20 lakh dues. But the institute deposited an amount of Rs 10 lakh.