DSCC Mayor places Tk 61.19b budget for FY21

With priority to infrastructure development, waste management and mosquito control, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has announced a budget of Tk 61.19 billion for the fiscal year 2020-2021, almost double that of the last year's one.

Mayor Fazle Noor Taposh announced the budget at a meeting at the Nagar Bhaban auditorium on Thursday. This is the first budget of the Mayor after taking office.

The revised budget of the fiscal year 2019-20 was Tk 25.85 billion.

Addressing the porgramme the Mayor said this allocation for development expenditure of the councillors and parliamentary members has been increased so that they can fulfil the expectations of people.

This year Tk 10 million has been allocated as the development cost of councillors of 75 wards under DSCC while the Tk 20 million for the eight parliamentary members, he said. 

The revenue income in the new budget from its own source is Tk 10.09 billion which include holding tax Tk 3.5 billion, market salami (possession fee) Tk 1.65 billion, trade license fees Tk 1.0 billion, assets handover fee Tk 600 million.

The government will provide Tk 500 million as grant and Tk 1.0 billion as special allowance.  Besides, Tk 47.66 billion will come from government and private aid based projects.

 “After taking charge as the mayor of DSCC, I gave attention to administrative reform  for removing corruption, negligence of duty and other problems. The work to convert the DSCC into a responsible and service providing organisation and brining its staffers under accountability will continue. Any kind of negligence and corruption won’t be tolerated as I have taken a zero tolerance stance in this regard,” said Taposh.

Mentioning  the measures to control mosquitoes, the DSCC mayor said, “We have taken a year-round mosquito control programme. We have used quality mosquito repellent and everyone has expressed their satisfaction with the effectiveness of the pesticide.”

Taposh, said they have taken a project to clean 10 water bodies under 10 areas under DSCC from June 10 and released fish for controlling breeding of mosquitoes.

Besides, a project to clean up sewers was also taken from June 21 and the sewers will be cleaned two times in a month which will play an important role in removing the water logging situation, he said.

Terming waterlogging as the main problem of the city dwellers, the DSCC mayor said people suffer a lot every year due to waterlogging problem.

He said from now no service organisation will be allowed to excavate a road within at least 3 years after the construction of a road by the city corporation, he said.

About the waste management system, the DSCC mayor said 24 waste transfer centers have been set up. Besides, he asked to construct a Secondary Transfer Station (STS) in every ward within December 2021.