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Highrise parking at Karwan Bazar

Says mayor, presents budget for Dhaka

Staff Correspondent
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) yesterday announced a Tk 2715 crore budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, increasing allocations for maintenance and development of traffic infrastructure by 11.27 percent.
Mayor Sadeque Hossain
site of Mahanagar General Hospital and three pathological laboratories elsewhere in the city to ensure the poor get access to healthcare.
The DCC will also build three new graveyards. Two hundred crore taka has been allocated for one near Rayer Bazar killing ground and Tk
Khoka unveiled the budget at Mahanagar Natya Mancha with no raise in holding tax.
The budget has allocations of Tk 3.55 crore to complete the construction work of a road from Grameen Bank Bhaban to Agargaon, Tk 25 crore to build another road from Beribadh (flood protection embankment) to Mohammadpur Bus Stand andTk 10 crore to construct a multistorey car parking at Karwan Bazar.
The mayor announced to construct a modern general cardiac hospital at the
100 crore for the two others at Mirpur and Aftab Nagar.
An amount Tk 6.87 crore has been approved for the construction of a multistoreyladies hostel.
The DCC will speed up holding tax collection and make the tax payment process easier, noted Khoka. This tax, the single largest source of DCC's total revenue, is earned from land and building owners in the capital.
The corporation has a target to earn Tk
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420 crore from holding tax. 11 realised Tk 280 crore in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, though the targetwassetatTk325crore.
The budget has Tk 310 crore for maintenance and development of roads and traffic infrastructure, including Tk 25C crore for maintenance of roads, footpaths and surface drains.
The DCC has set a target tc earn Tk 856.25 core in revenue in the current fiscal year. H earned Tk 586.95 crore in the 2010-2011 fiscalyear.
It will depend mainly on funds from the governmen! and donor agencies for its developmentprogrammes.
According to the budget, Tk 100 crore will come from the government's block allocation Tk 100 crore from special allocation and Tk 8.50 crore from othersources.
The mayor said they have already digitised the tax collection process in zones 5,6,7,8, S and 10 and the rest of the foui zones will have digital process soon.
He demanded the government form an independent Nadi Rokkhya Kartripakkha (river protection authority) tc give the responsibility of saving the rivers to a single organisation.
Khoka admitted to giving permission to contractors foi digging roads in the rainy season and vowed not to repeal this in future.