Barisal Correspondent :
Barisal City Corporation ( BCC) on Sunday placed a ‘highly ambitious’ Tk. 423,21,64,556 budget for 2015-16 fiscal without imposing fresh or increasing previous tax rates.
The ‘ambitious’ budget of current fiscal was declared against the revised budget of only Tk 147, 47, 10,196 against Tk 407, 88, 94,975 of 2014-15 fiscal.
The proposed budget has an own income source of only Tk 108.31 core, which would be spent for establishment cost and rest Tk.314.9 core expected from government and non-government allocations for implementations of development projects.
Ahsan Habib Kamal, BCC Mayor, after getting approval of the councilors at morning announced the thirteenth budget of BCC at the ‘Nagar Bhavan’ conference room in presence of the councilors, officials of BCC and administration and journalists.
Mayor Kamal, however, termed the size of the budget insufficient for providing the about 5 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 Kamal 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.
He hopes that BCC authority could be able to implement of the announced budget smoothly by managing funds from the government and development agencies.
Barisal City Corporation ( BCC) on Sunday placed a ‘highly ambitious’ Tk. 423,21,64,556 budget for 2015-16 fiscal without imposing fresh or increasing previous tax rates.
The ‘ambitious’ budget of current fiscal was declared against the revised budget of only Tk 147, 47, 10,196 against Tk 407, 88, 94,975 of 2014-15 fiscal.
The proposed budget has an own income source of only Tk 108.31 core, which would be spent for establishment cost and rest Tk.314.9 core expected from government and non-government allocations for implementations of development projects.
Ahsan Habib Kamal, BCC Mayor, after getting approval of the councilors at morning announced the thirteenth budget of BCC at the ‘Nagar Bhavan’ conference room in presence of the councilors, officials of BCC and administration and journalists.
Mayor Kamal, however, termed the size of the budget insufficient for providing the about 5 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 Kamal 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.
He hopes that BCC authority could be able to implement of the announced budget smoothly by managing funds from the government and development agencies.
