The Sylhet City Corporation on Wednesday announced a Tk 275.95 crore budget for 2011-12 fiscal year.
The new budget did not impose any new tax on the city dwellers with a view to keeping balance between income and expenditure.
Sylhet mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran announced these at a briefing at the city corporation conference room.
He said the last year's budget was of Tk 268.91 crore, he said.
The mayor said the RCC tried its best to prepare a suitable budget for the next financial year to keep balance between the city corporation's ability and expectation for ensuring an overall development in the city.
He also sought cooperation of the city dwellers in achieving the development goals and providing better services.
'The city corporation would be able to earn about Tk 50.21 crore from its own resources in the next fiscal year,' he added.
Focusing water logging in the city and drinking water crisis as major problems, the mayor said ECNEC had approved an estimated project of Tk 236 crore.
'Works of several development projects had already been started and the projects, which included installation of two surface water purifying plants and 15 deep tube-wells to meet water crisis, were expected to be completed by the next financial year, if the government allocation under the projects remained uninterrupted,' he added.
He also informed the media that Tk 5.60 crore would come from the government's annual development project and Tk 13 crore from the special grants of the government.
Sylhet deputy commissioner Abu Syed Md Hashim and ward councillors were present at the programme.
Source : New Age
No comments:
Post a Comment