Hyderabad, June 15: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) commissioner, Dr Sameer Sharma, proposed a scheme to give additional funds to wards based on the taxes collected from the wards. He made the offer when corporators persisted with their demand that the GHMC give Rs 1 crore to each of the 150 corporators for development of wards.

Though the GHMC officials said that only Rs 50 lakh can be released and that too through the newly formed ward committees, corporators from the Congress, the MIM, the TD and the BJP demanded that their budget should be separate.

They also reminded that a resolution was adopted in an earlier general body meeting that Rs 50 lakh would be given to corporators but officials said this resolution did not hold good now that the ward committees have come into existence.