BMC Budget 2023-24: For 2nd time in history, Mumbai’s civic authorities to present and pass budget themselves – Times Now

BMC is India’srichest municipal body and has a large budget. Last year the civic body’s budget was pegged at Rs 45,949 crore.

‘Additional municipal commissioners will present the budget to the commissioner’

“One of the possibilities is that one of the additional municipal commissioners will present the budget to the commissioner, who is now also the administrator,” said an official.

To fulfill the provisions of the act, the municipal commissioner will write to the municipal secretary about his intention to present the budget and will accept the same in the capacity of a standing committee chairman. This is because all the powers of the BMC house are vested in him as the administrator.

Additionally, with no civic house in place and to ensure public participation in the municipal budget, the administration has called for suggestions from Mumbaikars via email or in written format by January 28 to the budget. Citizens can send their suggestions on ebmcbudget. [email protected].

BMC budget was presented in absence of a standing committee for the first time in 1985

The term of the administrator was from April 1, 1984, to April 25, 1985. As Sukhtankar was transferred in November 1984, the next commissioner after him, Jamsheed Kanga, presented the budget in February 1985.