budget

Send your budget requests on any civic issue through the MCMB budget bus, or one of their workshops or on ichangemycity.com – they will all be compiled and shared with the state and its agencies at a large event in December.

Would you like to ask the government to earmark funds to sort out specific civic issues in your neighbourhood? This is your chance to let them know.

Rice at Rs 2 for whom? There are poor residents of Bengaluru who have been trying to a ration card, for years. The budget is an exercise to use public money to enhance the ruling party’s prospects in the coming elections.

Much of the allocated money is not spent. And the little money spent goes towards building roads and houses, that are of poor quality. What about welfare schemes, asks Dalit leader, Venkatesh M.

With only Rs 221 crore in hands, BBMP did an action replay of last year and projected a massive budget of Rs 9498.40 crore by relying completely on bond, tax and grants. Read the full analysis here.

The demands are basic. But the fact that this has to be put forward as a demands tells the tale of BBMP’s way of functioning. How many of these demands will be incorporated in the upcoming budget?

The Budget for BBMP for the year 2012-13, would be placed soon. The following points can be considered while preparing the budget.

So was it a good budget? Find out what the recently held budget analysis session at SIBM, Bangalore concluded.