The new firm hired to carry out a property survey and collect urban development tax (UD Tax) has mopped up around Rs 7 crore in two months while surveying over 50,000 properties in Jaipur JMC, Greater and Heritage.
The new property survey was started after 15 years to increase the number of commercial properties in Jaipur. According to an estimate, if the properties are surveyed properly, then JMC can earn over Rs 600 crore revenue per year instead of just Rs 60 crore collected at present.
Naveen Bhardhwaj, deputy commissioner, revenue, said, “Last year, using our own resources, we were able to add 30,000 properties in a year, but this firm did that in just two months. It’s just the first phase of survey and in the next phase, properties surveyed will be geo-tagged as well.”
However, in the initial collection, it has been revealed that JMC, Heritage might have to face revenue crunch as most of the commercial properties are in JMC, Greater. Tax collection in the last two months from JMC, Greater was Rs 5.47 crore and in JMC, Heritage Rs 3.22 crore.
At present, JMC has 1.34 lakh properties surveyed under house tax in 2007. This firm will start surveying the property from the scratch and will also collect the tax from the owners till six years. It will geo-tag the property giving each and every property its unique QR code. The firm will be paid 9.95% of the total amount collected from the properties surveyed.
On a trial basis, 50 properties in Greater and 50 in Heritage, whose data were already with the corporation, were surveyed by the firm. A lot of discrepancies were found in them.
The firm has been asked to survey 6 lakh properties in the first year and provide at least Rs 80 crore of revenue to the JMC. A year later, the firm has to provide 75% of the revenue of the properties surveyed, only then it will be able to get its own share.
