Thiruvananthapuram: The progress of revenue recovery that will be carried out by district collectors from a bowl has slowed in the ongoing financial year compared to last year.
Revenue recovery of only 34% in 2020-21, has slowed to 12% until October last year’s recovery of income alone in the state.
Of this number, Rs 3,760.55 Crore was stuck in various permanent orders by the court as well as by the government.
Of the remaining Rs 1,830.22 Crore which was immediately available for recovery, only RS 231.76 Crore has recovered until November 1 last year.
Income contributions to the government include contributions under sales tax, agricultural income tax, excise tax, motor vehicle tax and forest contributions.
Except Kottayam, Kollam, Alappuzha and Idukki, the remaining 10 districts have not recovered more than 80% of contributions through revenue recovery.
District-District in the order of decreasing contributions delayed for recovery includes Wayanad (93.98% of the delayed amount for recovery), Malappuram (93%), Kasaragod (92.95%), Palakkad (91.22%), Thiruvananthapuram ( 91.22%), Thiruvananthapuram (90.95%), Kozhikode (90.80%), Pathanamthitta (88.72%), thrissur (85.97%) and Ernakulam (84.32%).
Even the four districts that have been ‘performed well’, have recovered only less than 30% of lease contributions of up to 1.8-21, until March 31, the recovery rate is only 33%, which mostly stopped to stop all recovery steps due to a pandemic.
Although the situation is better in the ongoing year, the sources of the income department said that the district department and administration machinery was more focused on the battle of the fire in the past two years due to pandemics and natural disasters, rather than giving a focus at that time.
steps such as restore income fees.
Although the government does not allow fixed giving orders to income contributions, permits are given in a proper case, it remains one completion of contributions by changing it with the same installment.
The LDF government has been in 2017, delegates strength to Tahsildars to provide payment sanctions through revenues of up to RS 25,000 to a maximum of 10 installments.
The government has also increased the boundaries of district collectors where they can make calls, up to RS 2 Lakh in the case of bank loans and up to RS 1 lakh in the case of contributions to the government.
Also according to the relegated strength, while the Minister of Finance can make a decision about contributions to RS 10 Lakh, the Minister of Revenue can receive calls up to RS 5 Lakh.
Each defraugter above RS 10 Lakh must go to the minister’s head to take advantage of permission for payment in installments.
But regardless of all such orders, the government in a row has given sanctions remained unlimited in bulkhead, mostly under political or other influence, namely other major reasons why income contributions increased.