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Cash-starved Delhi Government has collected Rs 33 crore in the first five months of the current financial year through registration of properties compared to just 1.24 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal.
Revenue Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said the government had collected a total of Rs 2 crore in the last financial year as registration fee.
“We have collected Rs 33 crore in during April to August this year compared to Rs 2 crore collected in the entire fiscal last year,” he said. Rs 1.24 crore was collected in the first five months of last fiscal.
Chauhan said the registration was higher during the months of July and August and in these two months the government received Rs 32.43 crore as registration fee.
He said an amount of Rs 58.93 lakh was collected as registration fee from April to June period.
The city government has been facing financial difficulties due to massive spending on Commonwealth Games related infrastructure.
