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What naming and shaming didn't, Narendra Modi's demonetisation did
Updated On: 17 November, 2016 07:00 AM IST | | Faisal Tandel
<p>50,000 property tax defaulters in Ulhasnagar settle dues of Rs 25 crore in just a week to get rid of banned currency notes; the civic body tried bringing them to heel for six months</p>

Officials from the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation seize the property of a tax defaulter last evening. It seized 50 properties in just a day. Pic/Navneet Bharate
For all the flak that the demonetisation move has drawn, we have to grudgingly admit that it’s right on the money. It has done in a week what the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) tried in vain for six months: get property tax defaulters to fall in line and pay up.
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