The Khulna City Corporation (KCC) yesterday announced a Tk3.45bn budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year without imposing new taxes.
Mayor (in charge) Azmol Ahmed Tapon formally disclosed the budget at a press conference in the presence of KCC ward councillors, officials and others at the KCC Shaheed Altaf Auditorium. Special emphasis was laid on infrastructural development.
The KCC expects thatTk945.9m will come from its own sources, Tk1.287bn from donor agencies and Tk1.2174bn through government allocations.
The proposed budget has allocated Tk950m for five approved projects under the annual development programme and Tk1.2174bn for six approved projects of different donor organisations including the Asian Development Bank, Tapon said.
In the budget, development expenditures included Tk192m for street and footpath expansion works; Tk30.9m for the construction of a linear park along the Mayur River bank; Tk179.4m for solid waste management, truck, machinery and asphalt plant purchase; Tk39.5m for the Shaheed Hadis Park development; Tk1bn for the city development project (the Nagar Anchal Unnyan Project); Tk113m for the poverty alleviation project through KCC partnership; Tk100m for the municipal development fund project; and Tk509.2m for road construction, renovation of the drainage system, developing recreation facilities, sanitation, canal excavation and resolve water logging.
In the last fiscal year, the proposed budget was Tk3.09bn, but the revised budget was Tk2.51bn.
Expenditures in the last fiscal did not exceed the proposed budget, said Azmol. He asked for the cooperation from the city dwellers, the civil society, as well as the newly elected KCC bodies to attain the goals within the proposed budget in the current fiscal year.
On June 15, 2013, BNP-backed mayoral candidate Moniruzzaman Mony was elected as KCC mayor, ousting AL-backed candidate Talukduer Abdul Khaleque.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
