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Mumbai: BMC's Rs 3 cr for each ward remains a pipe dream
Updated On: 04 March, 2023 07:33 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve
Despite assurances directly from civic chief following this paper’s reports, allocation not yet made even as budget set to be finalised
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Funds allotted to corporators are used for works such as reconstruction of walkways in slums, etc. File pic/Nimesh Dave
The Maha Vikas Aghadi’s demand for Rs 3 crore funds for development work for each electoral ward in the city could stay just a dream. Civic Administrator I S Chahal approved the civic budget 2023-24 in the standing committee, but the Rs 1 crore provision for electoral wards which are the stronghold of the MVA, continues. However, the standing committee led by civic administrators has made a provision of Rs 700 crore, to be used as per approval of the guardian minister for the wards.
The civic administration presented the civic budget for 2023-24 to Chahal’s lead standing committee on February 4. In it, the administration made a provision of Rs 381 crore for 227 electoral wards under the head ‘Provision for providing various basic civic amenities along with development works’. But under it, 77 electoral wards got Rs 3 crore funds each. The other 150 wards got Rs 1 crore each. These 77 wards are BJP-dominated wards while the other 147 wards out of 150 belong to the MVA and other political parties. After mid-day published an article revealing this, MVA members met Chahal and demanded equal distribution of funds in all wards.
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