Civic body likely to present annual budget to elected corporators for the first time in four years, in the second half of February; the five-year term of the BMC house that was elected in 2017 ended at midnight on March 7, 2022
BMC headquarters in Fort. File Pic
For the first time in four years, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will present its annual budget in the presence of sitting corporators, elected after the long-awaited civic polls. The budget is likely to be presented in the second half of February, instead of the annual tradition of February 4.
The five-year term of the BMC house that was elected in 2017 ended at midnight on March 7, 2022. Since then, BMC has presented three budgets — 2023, 2024, and 2025 — through the administrator appointed by the Government of Maharashtra and Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani.
Since then the budget has seen a focus on expenditure on big-ticket infrastructure projects such as the Sewage Treatment Plants (Rs 27,000 crore), the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, the last leg of the Coastal Road between Versova and Dahisar, the waste-to-energy plant at Deonar Dumping Ground, the road concreting works (Rs 17,000 crore), the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) and various bridges in the city.
A senior civic official said, “Each year, the budget has focused on planned works which are long-term projects. It cannot be said that the budget did not focus on local infrastructure needs of the city — enhancement in hospital or school infrastructures. However, the budget operated without feedback that we get from elected representatives, which can shed light on local demands and alleviate needs in everyday life.”
The percentage of capital expenditure in the budget has increased from 36 per cent in 2022, when there was an elected body, to 58 per cent in 2025. The budget size also increased from Rs 38,515 crore in 2022 to Rs 74,366 in 2025, according to information from the civic body.
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