The BMC’s annual budget, which will be tabled on Saturday, is likely to focus mainly on the infrastructure development of Mumbai, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s January 19 speech in Mumbai, where he expressed the need for pushing the infrastructure of the maximum city under a ‘triple engine’ government.
Interestingly, the civic budget this year may also see allotments for mitigating air pollution in Mumbai.
Also, for the first time since 1985 and only the second time since the civic body’s formation in 1889, the BMC’s annual budget this year will be presented by the municipal commissioner and state-appointed administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal. He is currently the sole authority in the civic body.
