NMC loses Rs 85 lakh advt revenue ACB suspects insider job
The laxity of the civic bodys revenue wing in collecting income from advertisements since 2017-18 was found by an ACB team during verification of records in the corporations revenue and town planning wings a couple of days backNellore Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB sleuths were baffled when they noticed that the fund-starved Nellore Municipal Corporation NMC has suffered advertisement revenue loss to the tune of Rs 8545352ACB inspectors noticed that the corporation was not maintaining important registers pertaining to attendance leaves staff advances or even a movement register in the town planning sectionAt the revenue wing there was a revenue loss of Rs 6670 lakh because of improper calculation of plinth area while approving building plansACB officials were also taken aback when they found revenue loss of Rs 2859170 from just three assessments that they verified with regard to vacant land tax
The laxity of the civic bodys revenue wing in collecting income from advertisements since 2017-18 was found by an ACB team during verification of records in the corporations revenue and town planning wings a couple of days backNellore Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB sleuths were baffled when they noticed that the fund-starved Nellore Municipal Corporation NMC has suffered advertisement revenue loss to the tune of Rs 8545352 This has given rise to suspicions that some employees were responsible for thisThe laxity of the civic bodys revenue wing in collecting income from advertisements since 2017-18 was found by an ACB team during verification of records in the corporations revenue and town planning wings a couple of days back Even more shocking is that the officials had not even served notices to the advertisers to clear pending billsAccording to ACB sources the town planning wing failed to process 222 applications pertaining to building plan approval and 1255 land regulation scheme LRS applications that are awaiting clearance since January Officials have also not acted upon 2309 petitions comprising public grievances since August 2018ACB inspectors noticed that the corporation was not maintaining important registers pertaining to attendance leaves staff advances or even a movement register in the town planning sectionAt the revenue wing there was a revenue loss of Rs 6670 lakh because of improper calculation of plinth area while approving building plansACB officials were also taken aback when they found revenue loss of Rs 2859170 from just three assessments that they verified with regard to vacant land taxIn a report submitted to the government the ACB also mentioned about three floors built in the heart of the town without a proper building plan Though the building is being used as a textile showroom it was shown as a godown for availing concession in municipal tax Similarly ACB found that in a building at Balaji Nagar three floors apart from the ground floor were constructed while the permission obtained was for G2
