Rs. 12.81-crore surplus budget for Kalaburagi City Corporation

Expected receipts through property tax collection will be Rs.14.3 crore

Inlays and outlays:Aisha Firdous Rafiuddin, chairperson, Finance and Taxation Standing Committee, presenting the annual budget of the Kalaburagi City Corporation in Kalaburagi on Tuesday. —Photo: Arun Kulkarni

A surplus budget of Rs. 12.81 crore for 2016-17 was presented for the Kalaburagi City Corporation at the general body meeting here on Tuesday.

Aisha Firdous Rafiuddin, chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Taxation, who presented the budget, said that the anticipated revenue was Rs. 361.91 crore and the expected expenditure was Rs. 348.19 crore.

Ms. Firdous said that the expected receipts through property tax collection would be Rs.14.3 crore. The corporation would get Rs.17.84 crore as per the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission. A sum of Rs. 72.22 crore was expected from the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board and Rs. 66.52 crore from the third instalment of the Chief Minister’s package of Rs.100 crore.

Ms. Firdous said that more focus had been given on the development of infrastructure and beautification of the city with the allocation of Rs.113.86 crore for the construction of roads, pavements and footpaths. The corporation earmarked Rs. 40 crore to take up works, including drilling of new borewells, deepening and flushing of existing borewells and pipeline repairs. A sum of Rs. 30 crore had been earmarked for the development of a ring road and construction of footpaths. Ms. Firdous said that Rs.18.49 crore was allocated for construction of roadside drains and Rs.13 crore for underground drainage. The corporation allocated Rs. 5.84 crore for the maintenance of street lights, Rs.2.7 crore for the construction of commercial complex, and Rs. 55.03 lakh for repair and maintenance of buildings.

Mayor Syed Ahmed directed the Executive Engineer of the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board Ashok B. Madyal to form a committee to obtain details on the number of working and defunct borewells in the city.

Corporation commissioner P. SunilKumar said that under the provision of Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act, property tax rates could be hiked once in three years, which would help generate additional revenue. The revision of property tax would be taken up next year.