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REVENUE GENERATION
Receipts of Cantonment Board consist of the
following:-
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Income from local
sources.
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Non-Tax Revenue.
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Military Conservancy
Charges.
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Grant-in-aid contribution
from State Govt.
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Service Charges from
Defence Department.
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The resource structure of the
Cantonment Board, by and large, is fragile. The Cantonment Board finds it
difficult to augment the income from Property Tax for reasons of no
regular addition to the building stock in the Cantonment owing to the
restrictive land policy of Government and also due to the unrealistic
assessment of property. At the same, an analysis of the income data has
shown in the following table that the receipts from taxes and non-taxes
have risen by Rs 170 lacs during the last Three years and in terms of
percentage, it increased by 35.26%. The other components of income, i.e.
service charges, grants from State Govt. have also increased.
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Service Charges
constitute another major source of income. The receipts from service
charges varied during the last Three year. Till 1992 major source of income
was Municipal taxes. After 1992 this position has been taken by Service
Charges. Military conservancy payments and Education Grant from the State
Government are more in the nature of re-imbursement of expenditure
incurred by the Board and can be hardly treated as stable source of
income. The Education Grant against the Expenditure re-imbursed by the
Govt. during the year 1999-2000 was 27.65 lacs and in the year 2003-04 was
37.25 lacs. The Cantonment Board did not get any ordinary grant as well as
any special grant during the last Three years.
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