Lucknow: With the financial year 2025–26 entering its final phase and just two months and 13 days remaining, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has intensified efforts to accelerate tax and non-tax revenue collection. In this context, Municipal Commissioner Gaurav Kumar chaired a crucial review meeting on Saturday evening to assess the performance of all city zones.
The meeting was attended by Additional Municipal Commissioners Lalit Kumar, Pankaj Srivastava, Arun Kumar Gupta, Dr. Arvind Kumar Rao, Chief Assessment Officer Ashok Singh, Vinay Kumar Rai, along with all Zonal Officers, Zonal Sanitary Officers (ZSOs), Tax Superintendents, and senior officials from various departments of the Municipal Corporation.
During the review, the Municipal Commissioner conducted a detailed zone-wise assessment of tax and non-tax collections. Emphasising the critical nature of the remaining period, he stated that all zones must make extra and focused efforts to achieve their revenue targets. He directed officials to launch special collection drives to boost recovery from house tax, water tax, user charges, commercial taxes, and other non-tax revenue heads.
Gaurav Kumar further instructed that strict action be taken against tax inspectors whose performance is found to be unsatisfactory, in accordance with established rules. He also ordered the speeding up of attachment, sealing, and recovery proceedings against major defaulters to ensure timely realisation of dues.
Special instructions were issued to Zonal Sanitary Officers regarding the collection of user charges. The Municipal Commissioner directed all ZSOs to ensure 100 per cent recovery of user charges under the door-to-door waste collection system. He stressed that user charges constitute a significant source of municipal revenue and made it clear that no negligence in this regard would be tolerated.
The review meeting underlined the Municipal Corporation’s commitment to strengthening its financial position and ensuring the achievement of revenue targets before the close of the current financial year.
