BMC unveils Rs 39,038 crore budget, keeps tax structure unchanged

 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday disclosed Rs 39,038.83 crore spending plan for the year 2021-22. 

In a help to residents, no extra community assessment or permit expense was proposed in the financial plan by the BMC, the country's most extravagant metro body that goes to surveys ahead of schedule one year from now. The absolute spending gauges for the following monetary year are 16.74 percent more than the last financial when it had introduced a financial plan of Rs 33,441 crore. 

Metropolitan magistrate I S Chahal, who introduced the spending plan before to the community standing board of trustees, kept the municipal duties and permit expenses unaltered. 

"There is no extra duty and charge in the spending plan," he said while conversing with correspondents after its introduction. In the 11.51 crore overflow spending plan, the municipal body is expecting an income of a Rs 27,811.57 crore from different sources, including local charge, water and sewage charges, pay in lieu of octroi and DP expenses, which is Rs 636 crore less when contrasted with the Rs 22,448 crore assessed income of FY 20-21. 

The financial plan doesn't make declaration about any new significant foundation project and the BMC has zeroed in on different progressing advancement projects, other than wellbeing administrations, instruction and different offices. The urban body has assessed Rs 18,750 crore for FY 21-22 from the Rs 14,637.76 crore in FY 20-21 for the capital consumption works, which incorporates traffic activity and streets (Rs 1,600 crore), Coastal Road project (Rs 2,000 crore), Water supply projects (Rs 1,232.17 crore), storm water channels (Rs 1149.74 crore), Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (Rs 1,300 crore) and sewage removal (Rs 1,060.06 crore), among others.