Barisal Correspondent :
Barishal City Corporation on Wednesday afternoon holding a rally in front of Nagor Bhavan placed annual budget for 2019-2020 fiscal before the citizens.
It was the first budget of BCC under Serniabad Sadik Abdullah after he took charges as elected BCC mayor on October 22, 2018.
The budget was ‘highly ambitious’ as Tk. 548,10,67,437 budget for 2019-20 fiscal announced against 125,33,89,645 revised budget of 2018-19 fiscal depending on grants from government and non-government sources for development.
Serniabad Sadik Abdullah, BCC Mayor, after getting approval of the councilors at morning announced the fifteenth budget of BCC and first under his mayorship.
He, however, termed the size of the budget insufficient for providing the more than 6 lakh city dwellers in 58 square kilometer areas with all necessary facilities by upgrading the services with necessary manpower, funds and master plan.
BCC Mayor demanded government grants on basis of needs, sizes of area and population and urged the city dwellers to cooperate by paying taxes regularly so that the corporation can implement the development programmes of the proposed budget. In the budget speech Mayor Sadik Abdullah pointed out the health, sanitation and drainage, dilapidated conditions of city roads and shortage of drinking water and lack of healthy entertainment facilities as the main problems for the city dwellers.
