The Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB) will soon start collecting service charge and property tax arrears from the central and state government establishments within the cantonment limits.
The cantonment is expected to add Rs10 crore to its coffers by March 31, 2020, KCB’s chief executive officer Pramod Singh told TOI. He said that the drive was aimed at increasing the cantonment’s annual income.
“KCB collects property tax from residential and commercial properties on the cantonment-owned land. It collects service charges from defence, state and Union government establishments. We are collecting the details of the properties belonging to railways, postal and police departments here. We expect to collect around Rs8 crore from the railways, Rs1 crore from the postal department and Rs1 crore from other establishments,” he said.
“Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited had erected transformers on the cantonment’s land here. We are considering to charge them for the land use. We also considering to impose parking fees,” he added.
Singh said the board was also taking legal opinion on revising the rental charges owed to the KCB by the commercial establishments.
