{"id":552759,"date":"2023-02-04T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552759"},"modified":"2023-02-04T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:12:43","slug":"bmc-budget-to-be-tabled-today-focus-likely-on-infra-growth-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-budget-to-be-tabled-today-focus-likely-on-infra-growth-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC budget to be tabled today: Focus likely on infra growth, air pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BMC\u2019s 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\u2019s January 19 speech in Mumbai, where he expressed the need for pushing the infrastructure of the maximum city under a \u2018triple engine\u2019 government.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the civic budget this year may also see allotments for mitigating air pollution in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for the first time since 1985 and only the second time since the civic body\u2019s formation in 1889, the BMC\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMC\u2019s 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\u2019s January 19 speech in Mumbai, where he expressed the need for pushing the infrastructure of the maximum city under a \u2018triple engine\u2019 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\u2019s formation in 1889, the BMC\u2019s annual budget this year will be presented by the municipal commissioner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}