Patna: The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has intensified its property tax recovery campaign, sending teams door-to-door to verify property records, inform taxpayers about outstanding dues and facilitate payments.
The drive is aimed at improving property tax collection and recovering long-pending arrears. Municipal teams are visiting identified properties and establishments, checking their tax status and providing details of liabilities and payment procedures.
The corporation is also coordinating with government departments to recover dues from their properties, while zonal teams are monitoring pending cases and following up with property owners.
Government Properties Under Recovery Drive
A significant portion of the outstanding property tax identified by PMC comes from government departments and institutions.
The corporation has identified around ₹25.72 crore in dues from six major government-related property groups.
The identified outstanding amounts include:
- Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park: approximately ₹9.88 crore
- BUDCO: approximately ₹3.09 crore
- Divisional Commissioner’s Office: approximately ₹3.77 crore
- District Magistrate’s Office: approximately ₹2.01 crore
- Properties related to the Secondary Education Department: approximately ₹3.19 crore
- Properties related to CGST: approximately ₹3.78 crore
PMC officials are coordinating with the respective departments to facilitate payment of these outstanding amounts.
The recovery effort places government properties alongside private properties in the corporation’s broader attempt to improve collection and reduce accumulated property tax arrears.
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Door-to-Door Verification to Speed Up Recovery
Under the intensified campaign, municipal teams are visiting properties identified as having pending tax liabilities.
During these visits, taxpayers are being informed about their outstanding amounts and the process for making payments. The campaign also facilitates on-the-spot payment, allowing property owners to clear dues during the recovery exercise.
The door-to-door approach is intended to make the collection process more direct while helping PMC identify and address pending property tax cases.
Along with recovery, verification of property tax status can help the civic body maintain updated information about properties within its jurisdiction.
Five Major Private Properties Also Under Scanner
The campaign has also identified significant outstanding property tax among major non-government properties.
The five major identified properties have combined dues of around ₹1.94 crore. Four of these properties are located in the Patliputra Zone, while one falls under the Nutan Rajdhani Zone.
The identified dues are:
- Utkarsh Sphatik Limited, Ward 27: ₹65.48 lakh
- Virendra Kumar, Sujata Devi, Vinita Devi, Paras Nath and Sumitra Devi, Ward 2: ₹45.86 lakh
- Samudri Devi, Ward 2: ₹36.91 lakh
- Sukant Kumar Mishra, Ward 1: ₹24.56 lakh
- Shankar Kumar and Nutan Kumari, Ward 13: ₹21.45 lakh
These cases form part of the corporation’s wider recovery exercise covering properties with significant pending liabilities.
Zonal Teams Tracking Pending Cases
PMC has also strengthened monitoring of pending property tax cases at the zonal level.
Relevant teams have been kept active to follow up with property owners and departments and facilitate the recovery of outstanding amounts. The corporation is continuing coordination with both government departments and private property owners to expedite payments.
The zonal monitoring system is expected to help PMC track individual cases and ensure that identified dues remain under follow-up rather than being left unresolved.
Why Property Tax Recovery Matters
Property tax is an important source of revenue for urban local bodies and supports the delivery and maintenance of civic services.
For PMC, improving collection can help strengthen its own-revenue base while ensuring that property owners and government institutions meet their tax obligations.
The current campaign combines property verification, taxpayer communication, on-the-spot payment facilities and department-level coordination. This makes the exercise broader than a routine collection drive, with the corporation focusing on both identifying liabilities and following up on their recovery.
With ₹25.72 crore in identified government property dues and another ₹1.94 crore from five major non-government properties, PMC’s intensified campaign is now focused on converting identified arrears into actual collections.
The continued monitoring by zonal teams will remain important as the corporation works with departments and property owners to clear pending property tax liabilities.
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