Mangesh Satamkar Standing Committee member and Shiv Sena corporator put forth the point of order in the standing committee and demanded six more months extension for spending the yearly funds given to the corporators. BMC corporators get Rs.60 lakh as corporator fund, another one crore rupees is sanctioned as budgetary funds and if the corporators is a member of some committees like a standing committee, improvements committee, etc he gets more Rs. They are supposed to utilise the sanctioned money between the financial year April to March or otherwise, the budget will lapse. Satamkar said, "This time the budget is given to corporators in July month, as the allocation of budget delayed it will eventually further delay the expenditure. Also, as SAP is not blocking the budget money for the work to be undertaken, the yearly funds sanctioned to all corporators will lapse and there will be allegations like corporators used only 10% of their funds etc."

Source: dna November 16, 2017 06:01 UTC