Summary:
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the last nine years passed on over Rs 560 crores collected from Island city as cess from buildings. As per information provided under RTI to applicant Anil Galgali, the amount was collected from 2007-08 to 2018-19. As per the RTI information, the cess amount, instead of increasing has been decreasing over a period of time. There are nearly 17,000 cessed buildings in the city. As per information provided, the most cessed given to government was in the year 2009-10 at Rs 74.32 crores..