Even though senior officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had said that the thrust of the civic body's Budget this year would be infrastructural projects, the Development Plan (DP) took away the cake on Monday as Municipal Chief Ajoy Mehta presented a Rs 30,692 crore-Budget.

It has exceeded last year's figure by 12.6 per cent. While the DP got the meatiest allocation of Rs 3,323 crore as compared to last year's Rs 2,665 crore, big ticket infrastructural projects received allocations lesser than expected. While the state government is yet to approve a part of the DP, Mehta, in his Budget speech said, "Last year, of the 142 amenities that were proposed to be developed, 53 were completed. Even for the upcoming year, a sizeable Budget provision has been made for the development of amenities, including playgrounds, dispensaries, hospitals, cemeteries, solid waste segregation and processing centres among others that are largely on land owned by the civic body."