India, Dec. 6 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation has said it has not yet received its share of GST collected from the 32 villages merged into the city limits, and will now send another letter to the state government to demand the pending amount, which is estimated at around Rs.2,000 crore.

Municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram said, "State pays LBT compensation to the civic body to cover revenue losses after Octroi and Local Body Tax (LBT) were scrapped. This compensation comes from the GST collected in the city. However, the payment is still calculated only on the basis of GST collected from the old city limits."

A total of 32 villages were added to PMC - 11 in 2017 and 23 in 2021 - almost doubling the city's area. But the state gove...