TNN | Feb 17, 2015
Mathura: The city municipality will spend Rs 86.85 crore in the next fiscal for development of infrastructure in the holy city. Officials said priority will be given to repairing of roads.
After a meeting of members, municipal chairperson Manisha Gupta said, "The proposals for the budgetary outlays were cleared at the meeting unanimously. Considerations are also on to raise the wages of 550 safai karamcharis. They will also be given uniforms."
Officials added that policies regarding self-assessment of house tax, penalty on use of polythene and imposing a fine on using public land for marriages are being drawn up and would be implemented soon, she added.
They said the Mathura-Vrindavan Development Authority (MVDA) too has a budget allocation for development of the city. Notably, Mathura has been sanctioned Rs 40 crore under the 'Heritage city development and augmentation yojana (HRIDAY)' scheme of the central government.
Meanwhile, there have been demands from various local bodies for better coordination and evolving a consensus on issues that affect the long-term developmental plans for the entire Braj area.
"Communication gap between decision-makers and the executing agencies has been a major flaw which needs rectification. So far they have not been able to resolve the issue about upgrading the local municipality to the corporation-level. The Braj heritage plan has to be discussed as well as the Braj haat project. So many announcements have been made by the state and central leaders for the Yamuna, but so far, nothing concrete has been done," said a social activist Jagannath Poddar.
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