India’s richest civic physique, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), introduced its Price range for the fiscal 12 months 2023-24 on Saturday, crossing the Rs 50,000 crore mark for the primary time.
Proposed at Rs 52,619.07 crores, it’s 14.52 per cent larger than the Price range estimate for 2022-23 which was Rs 45,949.21 crores.
That is the primary time since 1985 that the civic physique’s finances was tabled whereas the time period of the corporators has ended and the civic physique is underneath an administrator. The finances was introduced to Municipal Commissioner and state-appointed administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal on the civic physique headquarters in Mumbai.
The finances estimates centered on a number of points together with infrastructure, air pollution, social initiatives and training. With Rs 27,247 crore earmarked for public infrastructure like roads, storm water drains and water tasks, that is the primary time within the historical past of the BMC that the capital expenditure is greater than the income, civic physique chief Chahal stated.
Air pollution
The BMC has deliberate to put in air purifiers in 5 most crowded areas within the metropolis: Dahisar Toll Naka, Mulund Examine Naka, Mankhurd, Kalanagar Junction and Haji Ali Junction. Rs 25 crore has been earmarked for mitigating air air pollution and sustainable waste administration measures within the Price range Estimate of FY 2023-24.
The BMC additionally introduced the ‘Mumbai Clean Air Initiative’ that may work in direction of three broad targets — curb air pollution focus, provoke a multi-level monitoring technique for town and decentralise planning and neighborhood well being consciousness to scale back private publicity.
One lakh timber can be planted via ecologically sustainable planting practices, alongside Mithi, Mahakali caves, Swami Vivekananda Udyan, and Bharat Van Udyan in Marol. That is an city greening challenge as a part of measures to sort out air pollution.
Moreover, the BMC introduced that extra charging stations for EVs in public parking areas owned by the civic physique can be arrange.
Schooling
The finances estimate for training for 2023-2024 has marginally diminished to Rs 3,347 crore as in comparison with final 12 months’s Rs 3,370 crore.
Maths and Science centres can be arrange in 88 major colleges within the metropolis. After a profitable pilot final 12 months, management coaching can be administered to 120 civic faculty rules within the FY 2023-24 in affiliation with the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Administration.
To create interactive lecture rooms, ‘talking walls’ are being arrange in 245 major colleges with work and artwork primarily based on class-wise curriculum content material.
Beneath the Nationwide Education Coverage (NEP) 2020, chosen secondary colleges within the metropolis will get ability improvement coaching programs beginning June 2023.
A digital classroom challenge was additionally introduced, much like ‘Virtual Classroom’ initiative final 12 months, which was backed by Aaditya Thackeray and scrapped in center of the 12 months. Beneath this, a scientific database of training curriculum can be created and courses and curricular actions can be carried out via LED good boards.
Infrastructure
The BMC has earmarked Rs 27,247 crore for spending on public infrastructure like roads, storm water drains and water tasks. Rs 3,545 crore has been allotted to the Mumbai Coastal Highway Undertaking this 12 months.
Moreover, Rs 1060 crores has been allotted for the Goregaon-Mulund Hyperlink Highway challenge, which is anticipated to chop Goregaon-Mulund journey to twenty minutes, as per Mid-day.
The BMC has allotted Rs 800 crore to BEST. In 2022-23, BEST bought a complete of Rs 1,382.28 crore.
The BMC has additionally earmarked Rs 250 crore for varied social affect initiatives in FY 2023-24. The fund has been allotted underneath varied headers which embrace monetary schemes for girls, the differently-abled, transpersons, senior residents and a ladies’s coaching scheme.
Income
Within the monetary 12 months 2022-23, income from property tax was estimated to be Rs 7,000 crore which was revised to Rs 4,800 crore, a fall of Rs 2,200 crore. The precise earnings obtained upto December 31, 2022 is Rs 3,174.46 crore.
The estimated income earnings for 2023-24 is proposed at Rs 33,290.03 crore, which is Rs 2,546.42 crore greater than the estimates of 2022-23.
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