The Hindu 13.01.2011
MCD departments present their budgets
The Health and Education Committees and the Department of Environment
Management Services presented their respective budgets specifying the
amount required to meet their department’s expenses at a meeting of the
Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s key panel on Tuesday.
The civic body, which has been rapped by the Delhi High
Court for running several schools in tents, claimed that it had built 60
class rooms in eight months since April last year and work was on to
construct 2,433 more.
MCD Works Committee chairman Jagdish Mamgain said: “From
April 1 to November 30, 2010, 13 school buildings were completed and 60
classrooms constructed. Work is in progress in 154 schools with 2,433
new classrooms on the anvil.”
He added that the focus of engineering department will
be on pothole-free roads. To increase revenue, two commercial complexes
and parking to be constructed on build-operate-transfer basis have also
been proposed, according to Mr. Mamgain.