Sanitation gets 28.9% of budget

With an outlay of ₹4,907.1 crore, the management and improvement of sanitation in Delhi received more than a quarter (28.86%) of the total expenditure in the budget presented by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner Ashwani Kumar on Thursday.

- Paras Singh

NEW DELHI:

Kumar, while presenting a ₹17,002.7-crore budget for 2025-26, also announced a plan to integrate the birth and death registration process with Aadhaar.

He announced plans to acquire heavy equipment, including mechanical road sweepers, super-sucker machines, and garbage compacting stations. He said that the MCD will set up 12 vehicular sanitation squads to conduct random checks, impose fines, and oversee private concessionaires managing garbage collection across 12 administrative zones.

Several major drainage projects were also proposed, including redeveloping the Taimoor Nagar drain in New Friends Colony (at a cost of ₹3.38 crore) and constructing a new outfall drain from Sangam Vihar to Mehrauli-Badarpur Road (for ₹11.9 crore).