pune as part of the drive to recover property tax dues the pune municipal corporation pmc has sealed a library a laboratory and a swimming tank of the citybased sinhagad institute at wadgaon budruk campus and has slapped notice to pay rs 3 crore due with immediate effect speaking to reporters on thursday tax department head vilas kanade said the pmc has started a drive to recover property tax as part of the drive we have recently sealed a library a laboratory and a swimming tank of the sinhagad institute as they have failed to pay tax worth rs 3 crore the institute has approached the pmc on thursday and asked for two days timelimit to pay the dues we will open the seals only after the dues are paid kanade added that the general body has set property tax collection target of rs 631 crore to be achieved before march 31 2012 as of now the tax department has collected about rs 400 crore property tax civic chief mahesh pathak has asked to speed up the recovery of dues accordingly we have formed two special squads for the same said kanade the city has 688000 registered properties and the pmc is making an effort to bring all unassessed properties under the tax net however around 45000 properties still remain unassessed the change of purpose of these properties from residential to commercial have either not been registered with the civic body or their owners have not approached it for assessmentkanade added that the pmcs initiative to publish the names of all property tax defaulters on its website has yielded good results we have uploaded names of a number of defaulters on the corporation website many of them have contacted pmc and agreed to pay the dues said kanade