Housing dept slams PHEO for poor collection of water tax

Cuttack | Thursday | 31st January, 2019

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Another performance review will be taken up soon to see the collection status,” superintending engineer of Cuttack circlel Hadibandhu Behera said. “The financial year is coming to an end and the collection is not up to the mark. The activities be start immediately, stated the letter.“I have instructed the assistant executive engineers, assistant engineers, junior engineers of the three public health division to take all efforts to achieve cent percent collection of the pending water taxes. We are asking them to achieve a good collection at least now,” said an urban development department official.Officials said a direction was issued to the non-achieving divisions of the Pheo following the meeting. According to records, the Pheo has been able to collect only Rs 5.95 crore which is about 19% of the fixed target.This came to light during a performance review meeting of the public health divisions by the housing and urban development department earlier this month..