A list of some of the new additions in AMC’s final budget(with PDF presentation Gujarati copy)

Ahmedabad, 23 January 2014

The elected wing of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) today approved Rs. 5301 crore final budget for year 2014-15. The elected wing added Rs. 400 crore to draft budget proposed earlier by municipal commissioner.

Some of the features the elected wing has added to draft budget are:

-Rickshaw parking stands at 100 places.

-Construction of new 10 storeyed building of LG hospital. Rs. 50 lakh allotted for availability of cheap rate food at canteen here.

-12 multi-storeyed parking

-Canal bridge connecting Vastral to Indrapuri.

-4 new community halls to be constructed. 3 existing community halls to be revamped.Dusheshwar, Sarkhej Juhapura, Old Vadaj, Chandkheda will get new community halls. Vasant Rajab Jamalpur, Rukminiben Bhavsar Sabarmati and Deendayal Kali ward will be revamped.

-6 new Municipal school buildings at Behrampura, Danilimda-Lambha, Rajpur-Rakhial Urdu school, Thakkarbapanagar, Indrapuri and Vatva.

-Foot over bridges with escalator on BOT, PPP basis.

-Amusement park at Lambha lake front on Build Operate Transfer model in partnership with private sector. The picninc place development project here will cost Rs. 14 crore.

-Roof top restaurant over Kanakaria multi-level parking complex through public private partnership model.

-Wi-Fi service at BRTS bus-stands, medical colleges, municipal hospitals and Kankaria lake front.

-Free medical treatment for Councillors, ex-Councillors and journalists.

-Free medical treatment to senior citizens living in old-age homes.

-General ward x-ray, sonography operations made free.

-5 physiotherapy centers.

-Solar system to be set up over municipal schools.

-Rs. 2828 crore allotted for development works.

-Daridranarayan week to extend health services to poor people every year. Three such weeks to be named after Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Deendayalji. All medical operations will be made free during these weeks.

-50% relief to women patients suffering heart or Brain Hemorrhage illness.

-Rs. 1 crore for a medical mobile van for check-up of women patients of breast cancer and Cervical cancer and for visits to slums to organize camps.

-250 types of charges at municipal corporation owned hospitals abolished.

-Rs. 50 lakh allotted for senior citizen nagar darshan yatra.

-Tourist coach and new Jalpari bus at Kankaria lake front. The tourist coach will be used for delegations on city visit.