The response to the property tax collection efforts of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been slower than expected. After uploading property tax bills in the last week of February, the civic body received around Rs 110 crore till Monday. The target was Rs 4,500 crore from the revenue source in the current financial year, but as the civic body decided to extend the deadline for bill payments to May 25, it is unlikely to be achieved till March end.

After goofing up on property tax bills for the last 11 months, the BMC was finally able to upload the correct bills last Monday, February 26. Till then, the BMC had collected Rs 710 crore, mostly from the pending taxes in the previous years. After the corporation started to upload bills last Monday, it has collected Rs 827 crore till March 4.