Auditors point at under recovery of Rs 2.27 crore dues in FY 2015-16

  • | Saturday | 21st April, 2018

The estate department earned just Rs 6.24 crore in the concerned year. “The administration is prompt when it comes to recovering dues from the average citizen but seems lax when pursuing defaulting traders. The corporation must work on revenue recovery,” suggested an activist. In the current fiscal, the administration has a set target of Rs 19.40 crore.Meanwhile, activists have questioned the apparent lax approach of the administration towards the poor recovery from the department and said accountability is a must. Thane: The estate department of the Thane Municipal Corporation has come under the scanner from auditors who have pointed the failure of rent recovery from users of nearly 16 public facilities across the city.The audit report, a copy is with this paper, shows how nearly Rs 2.27 crore as defaults from tenants who had leased commercial galas located in some corporation owned structures in the financial year 2015-16.

Thane: The estate department of the Thane Municipal Corporation has come under the scanner from auditors who have pointed the failure of rent recovery from users of nearly 16 public facilities across the city.The audit report, a copy is with this paper, shows how nearly Rs 2.27 crore as defaults from tenants who had leased commercial galas located in some corporation owned structures in the financial year 2015-16. The estate department earned just Rs 6.24 crore in the concerned year. The department is assigned with the task of collecting rent from tenants who have been assigned shops for undertaking various commercial activities in these structures.The municipal estates whose rent defaults are pending include some of the ward committee premises, civic markets, stadium along with other premises spread across the city. The highest volume of rent default is from the Vartak Nagar administrative ward amounting to around Rs 51 lakhs while Rs 47 lakhs is expected to be collected from the Dadoji Konddeo stadium galas.Officials inform that while the estates department may not be a major source of revenue for the administration but any under-achievement of collections, especially the ones pointed out in the 2016 audit, directly impacts its annual target, informed a municipal official. Of all the income sources in the department like renting of lake premises, BSUP flats, rental housing tenements, erection of temporary stages on ground, the volume of rental for its commercial units across the city remains the highest.The total earning from the department has gradually escalated from a modest Rs 2.49cr in 2013-14 to Rs 10.30 crore in the last fiscal. In the current fiscal, the administration has a set target of Rs 19.40 crore.Meanwhile, activists have questioned the apparent lax approach of the administration towards the poor recovery from the department and said accountability is a must. “The administration is prompt when it comes to recovering dues from the average citizen but seems lax when pursuing defaulting traders. The corporation must work on revenue recovery,” suggested an activist.

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