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BMC has used only 28% of its 2013-14 budget so far
Updated On: 28 January, 2014 07:07 AM IST | | Chetna Sadadekar
<p>With a little over 2 months to go before a fresh budget is presented, the Rs 27,000-crore plus BMC budget from last year remains largely unused by all civic departments; meanwhile, roads and other civic amenities in the city continue to give grief to citizens</p>
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The vastness of the financial budget at the disposal of the city's civic body, the BMC, would put many other civic municipalities to shame. What, in turn, puts the BMC to shame, however, is the miniscule fraction of these resources that the civic agency actually uses to improve the condition of the city.
In the financial year 2013-14, which will end on March 31, the budget at the BMC's disposal was an eye-popping Rs 27,578 crore. In what can be called a gross mismanagement of taxpayers' money and unmistakable apathy, only about 28 per cent of the budget was actually used by the BMC on infrastructure and maintenance, at Rs 7,500 crore.
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