Pune Municipal Corporation general body on August 24 voted to permit them to raid shop, inspect records
The general body (GB) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has passed a resolution authorising officers of the octroi department to check records of goods either in shops or in godowns to verify payment of octroi. However, its implementation is stuck as the resolution has not been sent to the octroi department.
The GB had on August 24 passed a resolution giving authority to octroi officers to help boost octroi and to check evasion. Till now, only the municipal commissioner and the officer in charge of the octroi department had the authority to raid any shop for inspection of goods and records.
As Navratri and Diwali are due in a few weeks, there would be a huge turnover in the food grain market. Hence, implementation of the GB resolution would help curb octroi evasion at this important juncture. But on Tuesday, it was found that the resolution was not forwarded to the department for implementation.
Chief of octroi department Hemant Nikam told DNA his department had not received the resolution. It would immediately start the process of inviting citizens’ suggestions and objections to the proposed change in rules once the resolution is in hand.
It would again require ratification by the PMC standing committee, GB as well as by the state government.
Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal, even on the next day of passing of the resolution, had opposed it and had asked corporators to do a rethink.
But the resolution was passed unanimously in the meeting under Rajpal’s chairmanship.
Deputy leader of Congress party in the PMC, Virendra Kirad, had also strongly opposed the resolution to authorise octroi inspectors to raid shops, saying it was passed without thinking and in a wrong manner.
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