Mumbai civic budget to see 10 per cent steep hike

Updated On: 04 February, 2019 02:30 PM IST | Mumbai | Chetna Sadadekar

Even as corporators claim only 37 percent spending from last year's Rs 9,547 crore capital expenditures' budget, as of December 2018

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The civic body is likely to allocate huge funds to the Coastal Road and the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road projects this year. File Pic

The FY2019-20 budget for India's richest civic body will see a 10 per cent hike this year, and yet again, go beyond R30,000 crore. While the civic body is set to announce new policies and provisions in its 2019-20 budget today, Congress corporator Ashraf Azmi has already called it an unfair budget.

Azmi has written to municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta demanding that the position of Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects) be filled immediately. The AMC (projects) is in charge of the civic body's finance and accounts departments, allocates funds to various heads, is responsible for planning and heading pre-budget review meetings.