CCC announces Tk 2485.91 crore budget for year 2019-20

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CHATTOGRAM, July 30, 2019 (BSS) – Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) today announced a budget of Taka 2485.51 crore for 2019-2020 fiscal with a special emphasis on infrastructural development of the port city.

Announcing the budget in presence of CCC ward councilors, officials and journalists at Theater Institute Auditorium of CCC, Mayor A J M Nasir Uddin said no new tax has been imposed in the budget.

“It is a development-oriented one aiming at providing better civic amenities to the city dwellers,” he added.

The mayor in his speech said the proposed budget has given special emphasis on infrastructural developments, education and health sectors.

He announced that CCC has taken up various development projects, including building of the port city as clean and green, reducing of water-logging, digging up of cannels according to the master plan of 1995.

In reply to a question, city Mayor said the proposed budget is practical but not an ambitious one.

The mayor also announced Taka 2045.51 crore 98 thousand revised budget for the 2018-19 fiscal.