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Tk 1,080 crore RCC budget approved


Published : 26 Jun 2021 08:47 PM | Updated : 15 Aug 2021 11:52 AM

An emergency general meeting of Rajshahi City Corporation held at the City Hall Room on 26 June, Saturday (noon) has approved Taka 1,080 crore 22 lakh 89 thousand Annual Budget of RCC for 2021-'22 fiscal year. Mayor of RCC AHM Khairuzzaman Liton presided over the budget meeting. 

The meeting also approved the revised budget of 2020-'21 fiscal year. In 2020-'21, the target amount of the budget was Taka 996 crore 79 lakh three thousand while the revised budget stood at Taka 561 crore 23 lakh 25 thousand. 

The Budget meeting starts by recalling the memories of the supreme sacrifice of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, martyred four national leaders, the martyred of the Liberation war and all those died in the Coronavirus pandemic.

In his speech RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said, from after assigning to the post of the Mayor, he along with his councillors were engaged in fulfilling the election pledges to the city people and started to build a modern, developed, livable, clean and 'model' city. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Cooperating relentlessly to develop Rajshahi city by approving Taka 2931 crore 31 lakh 81 thousand fund in the ECNEC meeting in 2020 for integrated city infrastructure development project, informed RCC Mayor Khairuzzaman further. He thanked and expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for her support in developing Rajshahi into a modern, livable city. 

RCC Mayor mentioned during this period of Corona pandemic, RCC is beside the people and is serving Corona patients by supplying Oxygen free of cost. Even, the Corona patients are supplied with free food and medicine, if needed. 

RCC has also donated two ventilators with high flow nasal Cannulas to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital authorities and awareness programme for city people is continuing by RCC. RCC has also distributed and still distributing food materials and cash money among several lakh distressed city dwellers during the Corona pandemic. 

RCC Mayor mentioned for over all development, RCC has determined nine work plans. Those are : increase of civic facilities at the root level through a planned city infrastructure, developed wastage management, elimination of water logging, tree plantation and construction of environment friendly infrastructure, increase of revenue income, development of public health, modernisation of revenue management, increase of service facilities and accelerating the services, ensuring transparency and accountability in official works, development of financial management and establishment of a Medical Institution to render easy and developed treatment for the city dwellers.

He added, despite the Coronavirus pandemic, the development of the city is visible through a series of construction works and infrastructure development. 

The budget meeting was attended, among others, by RCC panel Mayor-1 Shariful Islam Babu, panel Mayor-2 Rajab Ali, Abdul hamid Sarker, Chief Executive of RCC Dr. ABM Sharif Uddin and the Secretary of RCC Mashiur Rahman.