BMC Budget 2023: Time civic body looked beyond just roads

With budget set to cross the historic Rs 50,000-crore mark, corporators want city to turn focus to health, clean water and environment

Civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal is set to present the annual budget on Saturday and it is likely to touch the Rs 50,000-crore mark. It remains to be seen if the administration can think beyond the routine roads and bridges works this time. For the past two decades, the civic body has been spending a major chunk of its infrastructure budget on roads while hospitals, water network, sewage network and environment have largely been neglected.

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