CHATTOGRAM, July 10, 2018 (BSS) – Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) today
announced a budget of Taka 2425.42 crore for 2018-2019 fiscal with a special
emphasis on infrastructural development and removal of water logging of the
port city.
Announcing the budget in presence of CCC ward councilors, officials and
journalists at KB Abdus Sattar auditorium of CCC, Mayor A Z M Nasir Uddin
said “No new tax has been imposed in the budget.It is a development-oriented
budget aiming at providing better civic amenities to city dwellers,” he
added.
The mayor in his speech said the proposed budget has given special
emphasis on removal of water logging, the major problem for the city
dwellers, infrastructure 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 and building a
garments’ village at Khalurghat.
Of the total budget, Tk 694.92 crore has been earmarked from the own fund of
CCC while TK 1730.50 crore would be available from different development
grants.
The mayor also announced Tk 883 crore 38 lakh 70 thousand revised budget for
the 2016-17 fiscal.