For the first time budget of Rs2,221.62 crore was presented in the general body meeting of Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) here on Wednesday. Mayor Pramod Dubey tabled the budget for financial year 2015-16 on Wednesday. Providing relief to the residents of Raipur, no new tax was imposed in the RMC budget. Focus on budget was over creating and providing better facilities for the city like widening of roads, drinking water facilities, sanitation, sever construction and similar.
Allocations were also made for developing e-library in the city. The RMC budget has focused on power conservation by replacing the street lights with lED lamps. The Mayor proposed of constituting woman self help groups (SHGs) who would sell cloth and paper bags in the main vegetable markets of the city which shall be helpful in providing employment and generating source of earning for them.
Under Integrated low Cost Sanitation Scheme (IlCS), the RMC had target to construct 10,311 public toilets in this fiscal. Currently, 85 per cent of the target has already been achieved. The budget also proposed to develop incineration unit for disposing waste of animals in slaughter house located at Sanjay Nagar.