Battling funds crunch and low revenue generation, a desperate MCD today published the names of those with over Rs 5 lakh due in property tax to the civic agency and defaulting government properties on its websites.

Also, according to the list put on websites www.mcdpropertytax.in and www.mcdonline.gov.in, an amount of Rs 119.51 crore is due on 24 government properties and Rs 81.80 crore is payable by 665 farm houses.

The civic agency published names of all those defaulters who have an outstanding arrears of Rs 5 lakh and above for the period up to March 31, 2004, officials said.

They said there are 4,816 defaulters against which an amount of Rs 637 crore is outstanding.

In addition, there are three more lists which include government properties and farm-houses. Delhi Jal Board owes MCD Rs 23.62 crore as property tax while power distribution company NDPL owes it another Rs 2.65 crore. The Public Works Department offices owe Rs 3.9 crore while Central Public Works Department (CPWD) offices owe Rs 3.6 crore, they said.

Officials said stricter action will follow if the defaulters do not approach it within 15 days of this notice to liquidate the notified arrear demands.

In case of failure to clear the dues, the list of such defaulters will be published in media and newspapers.

"It is also notified that where the properties in question have already been attached under the DMC Act and the owners or tax payers have failed to clear the outstanding dues, a reference of the same will be sent to the offices of the sub-registrars... precluding transfer of these properties in any manner like sale, mortgage, lease and that the attached properties may be considered for auction towards realisation of tax demands," the MCD said in a statement.

In addition to this, if defaulters fail to deposit the property tax, criminal proceedings will be initiated against them apart from charging interest on the due amount, the officials said.