LUCKNOW, April 5 -- The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) collected more than Rs.2 crore in property tax within hours of reopening its online payment portal for the 2025-26 financial year, according to a press release. The portal went live at 3 pm on Saturday following maintenance work, and over 8,000 property owners completed digital payments the same day.

LMC chief tax assessment officer Ashok Singh said the website had been offline since Friday evening, after collecting Rs.9 lakh earlier that day. "Once the maintenance ended around 3 pm, we sent messages to all taxpayers with pending dues. By around 6 pm, over Rs.2 crore had been collected," he said. He added that those wishing to pay in cash may do so at counters from April 7, 2025...