The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has started conducting audit of all its properties in the city to gather information right from their construction date to their current status.
The initiative comes after Bombay high court’s directive to present all details regarding NMC properties. A civic official said that they have started gathering details of over 900 properties. The details are to be submitted by the NMC during the next hearing on December 2.
Educationist RL Luth had filed a PIL in the high court about the misuse of properties by the public representatives. During the recent hearing, NMC lawyers submitted the details about action taken against the property holders.
But the court was not satisfied with the information and directed the civic body to submit entire history of the properties right from the construction to current status and the procedure followed while leasing them at nominal rates.
“This (the audit) will include all information about the civic properties, when they were constructed and leased to social outfits and on what basis. We have already started collecting all the details required,” the NMC official said.
The NMC had recently conducted a similar survey NMC the month properties of May, covering 945 properties including community halls, library, gymnasiums and study halls. After the survey, the civic body had sealed 382 properties that were found being misused or used for commercial purposes.
Sealing of 117 properties was revoked after renewing the agreement and recovering charges as per Ready Reckoner (RR) rates from the social outfits. Moreover, some properties that were used directly by the citizens were also unsealed.
Currently, 265 properties are still sealed as they were being used commercially without permission from the municipal corporation.
