Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Budget

Budget of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation provides budget-code and account-code wise details of different types of receipts, both revenue and capital. It also provides details of expenditure, revenue and capital.

About the Budget

1. The Budget Document of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is presented in Gujarati. This is the translated version (into English) of the original Gujarati document.
2. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation budget is presented with Department wise budget codes and the details of the outlay/expenditure/receipt are shown with account codes. The budget codes have three digits and the account codes have three digits.
3. The figures are given in Rs. Lakhs.
4. The Budget does not provide the opening balance or the closing balance for any of the years presented here.
5. The Municipal Corporation's budget for the next financial year (1st April onwards) has to be approved by the 22nd February.
6. As per the Article 63 (2) of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act (Now Gujarat Municipal Corporation Act), every corporation has to earmarked 10 % of Corporation’s Revenue Receipt (Own fund) for the welfare (by providing amenities or other civic development works) of SCs, STs, and OBCs.
7. The Annual budget is proposed by the Municipal Commissioner and the Standing Committee makes amendments and the final budget is approved by the Municipal Corporation's General Body. So it is the Standing Committee's approved budget that is passed/approved by the General Body (Majority Rules). Here the approved budget is presented as Budget Estimates 2016-17.
8. We have done our best to interpret the various acronyms in the budget document. We could not find the explanation for a few items.

Legend

• ADB-Asian Development Bank
• AJL-Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited
• AMRUT-Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
• BPSP-Building Plan Scrutiny Panel
• BRTS-Bus Rapid Transit System
• C.P.F.-Central Provident Fund
• CCTV-Closed-circuit television
• EDP-Electronic Data Processing
• EPF-Employee Provident Fund
• EVM-Election Voting Machine
• EWS-Economically Weaker Section
• GIDC-Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation
• GMFB-Gujarat Municipal Finance Board
• GPS/RGD-Global Positioning System
• GSDMA-Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
• GSFS-Gujarat State Financial Services
• HUDCO-Housing Urban Development Corporation
• ICDS- Integrated Child Development Scheme
• J.P.F.-Joint Provident Fund
• JNNURM-Jawarharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
• LG Hospital-Lalubhai Gordhandas Hospital
• LIG-Low Income Group
• MET-Medical Education Trust
• MIG-Middle Income Group
• MJ Library-Maneklal Jethalal Library
• MPLAD-Member of Parliament Local Area Development Fund
• NOC-No-Objection Certificate
• RCC-Reinforced Cement Concrete
• RFID - Radio-frequency Identification
• S.T.P-Sewage Treatment Plant
• SRFDCL-Sabarmati River Front Development Corporation Ltd
• TDO-Taluka Development Officer
• TP-Town Planning
• UCD-Urban Community Development
• UIE-Unique Identity Enrolment
• VS Hospital-Vadilal Sarabhai Hospital