Cuttack Municipal Corporation fails to gather dues over unauthorised hoardings
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By Express News Service
CUTTACK: Against the permitted 200, over 2,000 unauthorised hoardings dot Cuttack metropolis at present owing to zero enforcement by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC). The menace simply appears to be rising each day.
Further, the civic physique is but to gather hoarding tax to the tune of Rs 1.5 crore from the defaulters. As per the rule, the promoting companies ought to take permission from CMC and pay hire and tax in the direction of show of hoardings.
However, many companies as an alternative of taking permission are placing up hoardings straight at distinguished roads throughout the town, generally even masking highway indicators. While the civic physique has closed its eyes to the menace, it’s also but to gather a whopping Rs 1.5 crore of hoarding tax which is pending in opposition to 30 commercial companies for the final two years.
The CMC in its 2016 council assembly had handed a decision proscribing show of hoardings at 12 locations together with Chandi Mandir sq., close to Orissa High Court, Gadakhai, SCB MCH, roads stretching from DRDA workplace to Sishu Bhawan, Satichaura sq. to Sector-10 Petanal highway apart from, close to instructional establishments, parks, well being centres and non secular establishments.
However, there was no enforcement on its half. According to officers involved, solely 200 hoardings are allowed within the metropolis however over 2000 of them are presently dotting the skyline.
CMC Deputy Commissioner Latashree Bag mentioned that letters have been issued to the defaulting commercial companies asking them to pay the pending tax. “We have started collecting hoarding tax from October last year after the COVID situation improved,” she mentioned.
