India, Feb. 26 -- At a time when the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has itself acknowledged that the same defaulters are taking the benefit of the existing amnesty scheme, the civic body is preparing to introduce one more such scheme for property tax defaulters.

So much so that civic activist Vivek Velankar has urged the municipality not to repeat the same mistake. "The PMC property tax department had given me a written answer last week that in the year 2020-21, a total 63,518 taxpayers again became defaulters though they took the benefit of the amnesty scheme the previous year. In the year 2021-22, 44,885 of the same taxpayers became defaulters who had taken the benefit of the amnesty scheme."

"The PMC's own data is showing that some...