Why is BBMP broke - where is the money?
We are told that BBMP is broke, they have no money. How many of us know the reaon why. A growing city, with so much commerce (IT, BT and all) going on, how exactly would it be broke? No english is required to explain things, numbers always tell their story. One look at summary of receipts in BBMP 2010-2011 budget may tell us something, (pdf available on BBMP website, also see embedded below for convenience), so here are the items where 2009-2010 budgeted and revised estimates have the biggest gap, orderd the way BBMP listed in their budget, only items bigger than 20 crores, leaving out shortages on JNNURM grants.
Table below:
|
Receipt Item |
2009-10 budget (lakhs) |
2009-10 revised (lakhs) |
|---|---|---|
|
Grant - Metro (BMRCL) |
7000 |
1.96 |
|
Grant – IDD |
3500 |
1650 |
|
Grants from MLA - Development works |
4200 |
200 |
|
Grants - state finance commission grants |
50000 |
39895 |
|
Beggary Cess |
3300 |
1988 |
|
Health Cess |
16500 |
9941.91 |
|
Library Cess |
6600 |
3976.76 |
|
Improvement Charges |
9250 |
52.31 |
|
Khata Transfer charges |
3500 |
1203 |
|
Infrastructure User charges |
2000 |
0 |
|
Service charge – central govt buildings |
2000 |
0 |
|
Service charges on cess collected on behalf of govt |
2640 |
0 |
|
Service charges on tax expemt properties |
2500 |
0 |
|
Property tax |
110000 |
79500 |
|
Rents from shops & commercial complexes |
5000 |
1107 |
|
License fees – hoardings on BBMP land |
2800 |
0 |
|
User charges - Solid Waste Management |
4000 |
1.52 |
|
Building deviation regularization |
5000 |
0 |
|
Building license fees |
4864 |
2505 |
|
Borrowing towards other works |
57811 |
155000 |
Attaching/embedding below for reference - Receipts details from BBMP, from their website. BBMP 2010-11 Budget Receipts
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Municipal Finance in India, RBI, Dec 2007.pdf | 1.01 MB |
| India Municipal Finance Study - ADB, 2009.pdf | 89.93 KB |