More accolades for NMMC

Wins awards for tax recovery, waste segregation

May 06, 2017 11:35 pm | Updated 11:35 pm IST

Navi Mumbai civic officials with the citations

Navi Mumbai civic officials with the citations

Mumbai: After finding a place in the Top 10 cleanest city in the country, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) had more to cheer for.

On the first Urban Development Day, NMMC has been awarded by the Urban Development Ministry for maximum tax recovery and exceptional work in segregating waste. The award was presented by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to the civic body on Friday at a function organised to celebrate Urban Development Day.

According to statistics provided by NMMC, in the year 2015-16, the total tax recovery from Local Body Tax (LBT) was ₹870 crore while in the year 2016-17 it was ₹1,022 crore. Meanwhile, the property tax recovered in the year 2015-16 was ₹507 crore as compared to ₹647 crore in the year 2016-17. A total of ₹1,670 was recovered in the year 2016-17 through the taxes which was ₹300 crore more than what was recovered in the previous year. “We had given special attention to recovery of taxes and also recovered the pending taxes of previous years, due to which we had exceptional recovery of taxes in the year 2016-17,” according to Additional Municipal Commisisoner Ankush Chavan.

For getting maximum results in waste segregation, NMMC provided green dustbins for dry waste with a capacity of 120 litre and blue dustbins for wet waste with a capacity of 240 litre at more than 13,000 housing societies. “Previously the wet waste collected was around 40 metric tonnes and dry was around one metric tonne but with the segregations, around 165-175 metric tonne wet waste and 80-90 metric tonne dry waste is being collected daily, in addition to 50 metric tonne of green waste of around 50 metric tonne,” Mr. Chavan said.

A waste treatment plant at Turbhe was set up to convert the wet waste into fertiliser. The plastic segregated was turned into plastic granules and used to make 10 roads in industrial areas of Navi Mumbai. “These roads will have a longer life,” Mr. Chavan added.

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