Bhubaneswar, Nov. 27: The municipal corporation is getting a list of holding tax defaulters ready. More than 100 people have not paid their dues for the 2014-15 financial year.

In spite of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) setting a target of around Rs 40 crore during the previous fiscal, it could only collect Rs 20 crore.

However, after putting up a list of the defaulters' list in January, the Rs 12 crore more was added.

"We have decided to repeat the formula because many people, including private educational institutions, are knowingly not paying the tax at a time the BMC is suffering because of the shortage of funds to start new projects. A proposal to publish the names on hoardings has already been passed by the corporation council and the step will be taken shortly," said chairman of the BMC standing committee on finance and taxation Seikh Nizammudin.

"The first list out of the 100-odd defaulters will contain the names of 50 major defaulters. The names will be displayed at major squares of the city to attract the attention of citizens," said the finance committee chairman.

This year the annual budget of BMC crossed Rs 500 crore, but the depleting tax base has worried the civic administration and it had proposed the collection of users' fees for solid waste and enhanced parking fees.

On the other hand, the BMC has started on-line collection of holding tax, hand-held devices with geo-positioning system (GPS) to link daily collection of holding tax with the central server to minimize corruption and increasing efficiency of the tax collectors.

Bijay Mishra, a resident of Bhubaneswar, said: "The list of tax defaulters on hoardings across the city should be displayed regularly."

Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena said: "Though we have listed around 88,000 of houses in the city, more could be added to the list. For that, the Orissa Space Application Centre is carrying out a project to prepare a remote-sensing and geographic information system to detect the defaulters in future."