Rs 5.50 lakh collected from octroi evaders

Joined vigilance, carried out by a team comprising Assistant Municipal Commissioner R P Yagnik, office superintendents Mayank Trivedi and John Gonsalvis and Peerzada, himself, has led the department to success.

He said during the last fortnight, the department had collected Rs 5.50 lakh in form of revenue, including fine from octroi evaders, mainly suppliers of electrical goods, cigarettes, tyre and tubes, computers, readymade garments and cosmetics.

The department in the last two months collected Rs 12 lakh from defaulters.In 1997-98, the department had recorded only a marginal growth of Rs 3 crore as against the collection of about Rs 80 crore.

Municipal Commissioner G R Aloria said more jeeps would be provided to the department to keep a watch on vehicles, which tried to evade octroi.