As many as 5,197 residents are going to lose their water connection for failing to deposit property tax to the municipal corporation (MC) in a first of its kind action that has city’s south leading the list.
A total of 949 defaulters are in Sector 30 followed by 566 in Sector 63 and 476 each in sectors 44 and 45 apart from others.
The tax branch has handed over the list to the public health wing of the engineering department to cut the connections.
The move comes after a final notice was served to around 8,000 defaulters a month back. They were told to pay the tax or face the consequences, a warning that spurred around 3,000 people to pay the tax. The rest did not, forcing the authority to take the extreme step.
“We gave many opportunities to the defaulters. The engineering department will start the process in the coming days,” an MC official said. “We gave the final notice to around 8,000 residential property owners for defaulting on Rs 10 crore tax in February. The arrears were linked with water bills,” he said.
Since the financial year is going to end on March 31, the authority is making strenuous efforts to incur maximum tax from both residential and commercial property owners. Earlier, only water bills of commercial property tax defaulters were linked with tax arrears.
