MCD budget proposals passed

On the issue of the toll tax and misuse charges, leader of the House Shanti Desai said that the MCD would earn Rs 110 crore every year from these two taxes.

He said that the Congress had run the corporation from 1983 till 1990 and during their misrule, schools suffered the most. Desai suggested that Municipal Commissioner V.K. Duggal prepare a blueprint of the problems plaguing the MCD and how much money is required to solve them. He added that staff should be transferred to those departments where the workload was heavy and also suggested that MCD officials cut-down on their petrol and telephone expenditure by 10 per cent. Suggesting an amendment in the toll tax, leader of the opposition Rambabu Sharma said that those commercial vehicles which carry consumer goods for Delhiites should be exempted. He argued that if these vehicles are taxed, prices of consumer goods would go up.