The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has many corporate big guns waiting for their Octroi refund claims. For the past two years, the Octroi Refund Dalals Association (ORDA) is running from pillar to post to get the money back for its 10,000 large and small clients, which include firms like the Airport Authority of India, the National Sock Exchange, L&T, Bajaj, LG, Samsung, Sony, Finolex, Castrol India, Aditya Birla, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata, Hindustan Unilever, Godrej and so forth.

Parmanand Thakkar, president of the Octroi Refund Dalal Association, has been liaising with the BMC on behalf of the corporate clientele. Pic/Datta Kumbhar