In BMC Budget 2025 of Rs 74,427 crore, key focus on infrastructure growth

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BMC BUDGET 2025 This year's fund was presented by Bhushan Gagrani, BMC Commissioner and state-appointed administrator, who took complaint successful March 2024. (Express Photo by Pradip Das)

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday announced a fund of Rs 74,427 crore for the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26 — exceeding past fiscal’s revised estimation of Rs 65,180 crore by 14.19 per cent.

This year’s budget was presented by Bhushan Gagrani, BMC Commissioner and state-appointed administrator, who took complaint successful March 2024. This was besides the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth erstwhile the civic body’s fund was presented by the administrator, aft the wide assemblage of elected representatives was dissolved successful March 2022.

Of the full fund size, Rs 43,162 crore person been earmarked for superior expenditure, and Rs 31,204 crore person been acceptable speech arsenic gross expenditure. For FY 2025-26, a lion’s stock of backing has been allocated to heighten immoderate of the cardinal infrastructure projects meant to fortify the city’s outlook.

The highest allocation of Rs 5,545 crore was made for the Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project (MSDP), which is executing the task of constructing 7 Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) successful Mumbai. These plants volition go operational betwixt 2026 and 2028 successful a phased manner.

BMC allocated Rs 4,000 crore to the Bridge Department for executing the 2nd signifier of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project that volition link Versova with Dahisar. The civic assemblage allocated Rs 3,111 crore for the roadworthy concretisation project. According to information furnished successful the BMC budget, 26 per cent of the full roadworthy concretisation has been completed truthful acold and successful the adjacent fiscal year, the civic authorities person aimed to implicit the roadworthy concretisation enactment by 75 per cent.

Apart from this, Rs 1,958 crore has been allocated for the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) which is expected to go operational by 2028. The 12 km agelong GMLR volition traverse towards the eastbound from the Western Express Highway (WEH) and widen till Mulund successful the eastbound suburbs. At contiguous there’s nary nonstop connectivity betwixt these 2 parts of the city, and question clip during highest hours ranges from 75-90 minutes. After GMLR is ready, the travelling clip betwixt these 2 points is slated to travel down to 25 minutes.

Besides this, Rs 1,516 crore has been allocated for the completion of equilibrium enactment and attraction of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (south), which became operational successful March 2024.

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