Ahmedabad, 3 February 2012

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation today passed its Rs 4181 crore annual budget of year 2012-13.

As per the budget figures, Rs 382 crore will be spent on zonal capital works, Rs 82.50 crore on road project, Rs 64.15 cr on bridge project, Rs 95.50 cr on water project, Rs 88.88 cr on drainage project, Rs 82.36 cr on housing, Rs 54.85 on public places, Rs 31.25 cr on street light, Rs 86.20 cr on medical, fire, solid waste equipments and Rs 11.15 cr on e-governance. Rs 226 crore will be spent on Sabarmati river front development project, Rs 162 will be spent on loan to AMTS, Rs 36.60 cr will be spent for economically backward people.Rs 178.40 cr will be spent on BRTS Janmarg, Rs 80 cr on BRTS buses, Rs 90 cr on EWS housing, Rs 80 cr on drainage projects(JnNURM), Rs 150 cr on Brts Janmarg phase-3(JnNURM). Rs 500 crore works under grant provisions are also part of the budget.

-Hydro power energy(Rs 2.5 cr) project for energy generation from waste at Pirana and Rasa,Suez and Raska water treatment plants on experimental basis.

-Panjarapols(cow shelters) made free from all taxes, also relief to Old age homes from property tax payment.

-Balanced planning of wards(larger wards to get extra push)

-Facilities in housing board and slum clearance board townships with Rs 10 crore extra push.

-Decorative street light and revamped roads on both sides of the existing Kharicut canal.

-Rs 1.25 cr allotted for Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations.

-Foot over bridge(BOT) at Kalupur railway station, Gitamandir etc crowdy places in exchange of advertising rights.

-Rs 25 cr allotment for fly over bridge and railway over bridges. Fly over connecting Judges bungalow-Sindhu bhavan over SG Highway, two level flyover bridge at Helmet circle, railway over bridge on Naroda national highway no 8 crossing.

-Rs 5 crore for roads facility in new areas.

-Rs 5 crore for development of small tanks in new west and new east areas.

-Tree plantation on 76 km belt of Sardar Patel ring road.

-Eye car medical van for eye-camps in slum areas.

-Both TP road on both sides of meter gauge line parallel to Ashram road will be resurfaced and developed with street light facility.

-Community halls at Shahpur, Asarwa, Bapunagar, Gomtipur and Navrangpura will be developed.

-Ahmedabad’s Town hall will be revamped at a cost of Rs 25 lakh.

-New west Ahmedabad area will get a new state-of-the-art auditorium with seating capacity of 1500 people on BOT basis.

-Elevated corridor on Vijalighar to Kalupur railway station over Relief road. Feasibility report will be prepared for this project.

-A river bridge over river Khari connecting Shri Lal gebi ashram road and Vivekanand nagar.
-New cremation facilities.

-Five new mobile toilet van and five new dead body vans.

-Traffic signal on 100 traffic junctions.

-Kranti yatra to restarted between Panchkuva muster station and Aka sheth street.

-Medical stors in Municipal hospitals.

-Oxygen park, thick forest at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.

-AMC will organize a national book fair from 1 May to 7 May at a cost of Rs 30 lakh on the occasion of Gujarat day.

-Rs five crore for new water distribution center.

-A new Urban house will be constructed where city planing department, estate and city development department offices will be working.

-Traffic children park in new west area of the city.

-Shri Shyamaprasad Vasavada municipal hall will be rebuilt at a cost of Rs 4 crore.

Complete budget presentation document can be accessed on this link(Gujarati PDF)