Musical bands are known to liven up wedding processions, but the civic body is planning to employ them to put a damper on property tax defaulters. Hoping that tax dodgers would buckle under the discomfiture of a live band playing in front of their homes and cough up the dues, the PMC is contemplating using this musical modus operandi to embarrass property tax defaulters.

Changing the tune: With all other methods — sending letters, notices and publishing names in newspapers — to recover arrears bearing no fruits, the civic body is deciding to employ this novel idea. According to a senior civic official from the tax department, the procedure will be implemented soonu00a0Representation Pic