The Brahmapur Municipal Corporation (BMC) passed a budget of Rs 216, 90, 96,350 for the year 2017-18 in a meeting held here on March 16.
The allocation is double the sum of money allocated in the 2016-17 budget of the civic body.
The incomes were cited to be from holding tax of Rs 6.97 crore, trade licence and other fees of Rs 6.3 crore. Similarly, the Government grant has been pegged at Rs 82.67 crore. Among the expenditures side, Rs 9.88 crore will be spent for healthcare, Rs 9.42 crore for cleaning and electricity, Rs 95 crore from Government grant and Rs 55 crore from Odisha Urban Infrastructure Fund to be spent for various projects.
There was unruly scene during discussion of drinking water problem of Brahmapur city. BJP Corporator Namitarani Panda left the meeting from the beginning, alleging that no development works were undertaken in her Ward.
Similarly Corporators Ashok Sukla, Biren Patnaik, Anil Nayak and B Srinivas Rao etc raised the drinking water issue in their Wards and demanded special steps for mitigating the trouble of the denizens.
It was, however, informed to the meeting that there is a proposal to provide water to the water deficit areas in 40 tankers and sink 15 deep bore wells.
Many Corporators also protested the mismanagement in distribution of PDS rations to the beneficiaries. Mayor K Madhavi, Commissioner Susant Kumar Mishra, among others, were present.