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A detailed audit conducted by Nagpur's town planning department has found nearly 30,000 structures missing from official municipal records. These buildings, though physically present and in use, had not been assessed for property tax, with many listed as vacant plots. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has now begun matching these structures with its GIS database. Once the ground verification is done, property owners will be issued assessment notices. This move is expected to bring a significant number of previously unlisted properties into the city's formal tax system and boost municipal revenue.
A comprehensive land-use survey carried out by the development plan department in Nagpur has identified around 30,000 built structures that were never recorded in the civic body's official property database. These structures had either gone completely unnoticed or were taxed merely as vacant plots. In both cases, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) was losing potential revenue, as the actual usage of the land was not reflected in its tax assessments. Advertisement
Currently, the NMC's property tax department maintains records for approximately 6.37 lakh properties across the city. With the newly uncovered 30,000 units now in the spotlight, the property count is expected to rise significantly. The survey results suggest that thousands of properties had been developed or modified without proper reflection in the corporation's system, highlighting a major gap in coordination between building permissions and taxation.
The NMC is now overlaying these newly identified properties mapped through survey polygons onto its Geographic Information System (GIS) to check for overlaps with existing entries. This process is aimed at filtering out properties that may have been altered, redeveloped, or newly constructed without tax updates. A senior NMC official stated that these findings are being verified carefully, and the department is preparing to issue assessment notices for all eligible structures after physical verification.
Once the GIS overlay is completed, the civic body plans to initiate ground-level inspections. Survey teams will visit the locations to confirm that the structures exist and match the new data. Only after this step will assessment notices be sent out to owners, bringing these properties into the formal tax net.
This update follows previous instances in Maharashtra, where municipalities were directed to use remote sensing and satellite imagery to detect unauthorized or underreported buildings. However, many civic bodies had delayed implementing such systems. In Nagpur's case, this audit marks a significant correction in the city's data accuracy, with potential long-term benefits for revenue planning and civic infrastructure management.
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