28 March 2022

City to have another ₹200 crore for Roads

Work on 108 roads in the city under Smart City will start soon. At the same time, the corporation administration also took a big decision to allocate Rs 200 crore for special roads in the budget. These works will be completed within the next year. Municipal Corporation (AMC) budget will be presented on March 31. The city is looking at other innovative schemes for Aurangabadkars in the budget.

Since April 2020, there is no ‘caretaker’ in the AMC. As a result, some works in 115 wards of the city are stopped. Administration is doing only necessary works in different wards which save large amount of money. Nearly Rs 350 crore pending bills were paid. Administrator Astik Kumar Pandey will present the third budget in next three days in absence of caretaker. Preliminary estimates put the budget ataround Rs 1,200 crore.

AMC administration was not able to implement the budget during the corona first and second wave. For the third year in a row, the administration will focus on meeting some of the salient features of the budget.

A few years ago, the city of Aurangabad was known as the city of potholes. In the last 8 years, the civic administration has con structed roads worth Rs 276 crore from government funds.

At a cost of Rs 317 crore, 108 roads will be smoothened under the Smart City scheme. Now Rs 200 crore is being kept in the municipal budget for special major roads from the municipal fund. The administration has expressed its intention to construct cement roads in some places and asphalt roads in others.

Increase in income of AMC

In the last two years, the municipal administration has curbed the expenditure, took concrete steps to increase income. Property that had not been taxed for years was taxed. There are a few more properties to be taxed. They will be brought under the tax framework throughout the year. Therefore, it is being arranged that AMC will get at least 200 crore from property tax every year.