Chandigarh, March 17- Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal chaired the sixth meeting of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) at the Public Works Department’s Rest House in Gurugram late last evening. In this meeting, the authority's budget proposals for the year 2020-21 were approved.
Sharing more information in this regard, an official spokesperson said that in the year 2020-21, GMDA will spend an amount of Rs 1608.83 crore on various heads while Rs 1173 crore will be earned from various income sources. Accordingly, the deficit shown in the expenditure and receipt budget amounting to Rs 435.83 crore may also, be compensated out of the EDC by the Town and Country Planning Department for the notified area after the inception of GMDA which is approximately Rs 2700 crore.
The Spokesman said the passed budget proposals show that GMDA will get an amount of about 250.52 crore from Cesses and Charges. While an amount of Rs. 249.22 Crore will be earned mainly from Water billing and Water Tank charges. Apart from this, an income of about Rs 40 lakhs will be received from the booking of GMDA Sports Stadium (Tau Devi Lal Stadium Sector-38) and about Rs. 90 lakhs will be received from Traffic Management. Similarly, an income of Rs 250 crore will be received from Fees and Stamp Duty and Rs 627.48 crore will be received as External Development Charges. Apart from this, the receivable EDC of the Previous Financial Years is estimated to be around Rs 20 crore and about Rs 25 crore will be earned as Interest from the bank’s deposits.
It was decided in the meeting, GMDA will get one percent of the stamp duty for the April 1, 2020, and for this, a notification will be issued by the Revenue Department soon. It was informed that the EDC amount of Rs 627.48 crore will be provided by the Town and Country Planning Department. This includes the EDC amount of about 105 crores for the financial year 2019-20, whose recovery is pending.
On this occasion, Chief Executive Officer GMDA, Mr. VS Kundu said that GMDA has undertaken some projects based on an amount of Rs 500 crore received from Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG). This amount will be returned to the MCG after receiving the EDC amount.
The budget proposal shows that an amount of about 528.21 crores has been spent on capital works by GMDA, out of which Rs. 338.26 crores has been spent for infrastructure development, Rs. 100.95 crore for mobility management, Rs. 15.50 crore for urban environment and Rs. 73.50 crore for social infrastructure. Apart from this, an amount of Rs 522.48 crore will be spent on Capital works- EDC. Not only this, an amount of Rs 495.30 crore will be spent on operations and maintenance, in which Rs 244.77 crore is proposed to be spent on maintenance of roads, Rs 250.53 crore on water supply, sewerage, and drainage. An amount of about Rs 48.72 crore will be spent on establishment and administration, Rs 9.12 crore on GIS and Rs 5 crore on other works.
Additional Chief Secretary Environment and Climate Change Department, Mrs. Dheera Khandelwal, Gurugram Mayor, Mrs. Madhu Azad, Senior Deputy Mayor, Mrs. Promila Kablana was present in the meeting. While, Additional Chief Secretary, Power Department Mr. T. C. Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Mr. T.V.S.N. Prasad, and Mr. Apoorva Kumar Singh also attended the meeting through video conferencing from Chandigarh.