This year, the annual budget for Pune might not have announcements of new projects for public work.
This year, the annual budget for Pune might not have announcements of new projects for public work.
This is because the new general body and the standing committee would be convening only after March 15, while the municipal commissioner would be presenting the budget of accounts next week before the outgoing general body.
The tax increases proposed by the commissioner mostly is shot down by the standing committee whose budget highlights many projects. The Rs3,000- crore budget for 2011-12 had earmarked almost 35% for projects, which included the Indira Gandhi Medical College.
However, this year no new projects would be there in the budget, said, corporator Ujjwal Keskar. “This year, the budget would be the budget of accounts, which would seek the sanction of the general body for the salaries and other establishment expenses of the civic body. In January, the commissioner had proposed hike in property tax, which was shot down by the standing committee,” he said.
The establishment expenses for the year 2011-12 was earmarked at Rs1,385 crore. Other than salaries of civic employees, it includes electricity bills, water tax, petrol allowance, ward level work, etc. Almost 22% of the budget is spent on the salaries of the employees.
The present House would be dissolved in March 14 and the new house will come into existence from March 15.
After the election of the new mayor, the standing committee would be elected in due course of time. Post this, the new chairman might constitute a new budget for this year or would present a budget for the next financial year, 2013-14.
As per the Bombay Provincial Municipal Act (BPMC, 1949), the budget for the civic body is prepared by the municipal commissioner, which is then sent to the standing committee. The chairman of the standing committee then deliberates about it and then presents the budget before the general body which passes the budget.
Ulka Kalaskar, chief accountant of the Pune Municipal Corporation, said that municipal commissioner, Mahesh Pathak, would be presenting the budget for 2012-13 before the existing general body next week.
“As per the BPMC, Act, the standing committee and the general body has to pass the budget before March 31. In case the budget is not passed, the commissioner’s budget comes to force till the standing committee comes up with its own budget,” she said.
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