Udupi City Municipal Council presents surplus budget

Udupi, March 28: President of Udupi City Municipal Council Kiran Kumar on Monday presented a Rs 183.76 lakh surplus budget for Udupi city for the year 2011-12.

The budget showed an initial balance of Rs 1036.01 lakh, expected an income of Rs 7016.85 lakh and proposed an expenditure of Rs 7869.10 lakh for the coming financial year.

In the budget proposal Kiran Kumar announced to acquire land in the Parkala town, a bottleneck on the Malpe-Monakalmooru state highway, for widening the road. Acquisition has already been proposed and an amount of Rs 3 crore from the CM's Small and Medium Towns' Development Progamme had been earmarked.

He said that the land acquisition process for widening the road at Diana Circle was at the verge of completion and the Circle would be developed soon after that. Likewise, Rs 13 crores had been deposited with the land acquisition officer, to acquire land for widening the stretch between Tangadagadi-Kalsanka. Once the land acquisition was complete, a 60 feet road would be developed spending Rs 6 crores from the state government's special grant.

An Open Air Theater will be constructed at the erstwhile Municipal dumping yard, at Beedinagudde. For the purpose, a Rs 6 crore project had been prepared. The works of the first stage will be taken up by Rs 2.50 crore from the CM's Small and Medium Towns' Development Progamme and Rs 1 crore from the state government's special grant.

Other proposals of the budget included modernization of Town Hall at Ajjarkad, at a cost of Rs 4 crores (2 crores each from the CM's SMTDP and special grant), rejuvenating the municipal crematorium at Malpe, dividing Udupi city in to 10 zones for the effective collection of solid waste from the door steps, upgrading technology to manage solid waste at the Muncipal Solid Waste Recycling Plant, at Karvalu, in a better way, construction of over head tanks at Manipal to supply water to some of the areas with enough force. Rs 6 crore has been reserved for the construction Malpe-Padukar bridge, Rs 1 crore has also been earmarked for the smooth functioning of traffic system in Udupi.

Speaking at the Budget session of the CMC Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat said that the water management system has been appreciated by the state government and has also been nominated for the national award. CMC Vice President Bharathi Chandrashekhar, Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak and others were present.