Ahmedabad: Municipal commissioner M Thennarasan will present the draft budget for the year 2025-26 to the standing committee on Thursday.
For the year 2024-25, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) approved a budget of Rs 12,262 crore and introduced the concept of a gender budget for the first time. However, there were no specific schemes for women, and projects that were included have not been initiated.
Additionally, the 2024-25 budget made provisions to establish various gardens in the city, but most of them have not been developed.
The standing committee allocated Rs 6,384.50 crore for development works. However, a budget review meeting held in Dec 2024 revealed that only Rs 2,863.25 crore was spent on development works till Nov 30, 2024.TNN