The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s standing committee has approved Budget proposals to the tune of ₹11,460 crore for the financial year 2026-27, only marginally above the revised estimates for the current financial year at ₹11,010 crore.
Of these proposed allocations, ₹2,260 crore have been earmarked for the zones comprising the new areas merged into the corporation recently.
Despite the merger, the corporation has pegged its revenue at mere ₹2,245 crore, which is only about 10% higher than the collection from the previous year, 2024-25, and less than seven per cent higher than the revised target for the current year.
Together with the revenue from the Town Planning wing at ₹1,200 crore and other heads, the total budgetary revenue is pegged at ₹4,651 crore as against the revised target for the current year at ₹4,620 crore. Contrary to this, a threefold jump is shown in the assigned revenues from other departments, from the targeted ₹81.4 crore for the current year to ₹330 crore in the fresh proposals.
State government grants have been raised from ₹3,072 crore this year to ₹3,500 crore for the next, while the same from the central government have been cut down from ₹1,227 crore to ₹719 crore. On the expenditure front, the highest allocation, at ₹1,340 crore, has been made for the road projects taken up under H-CITI. Additionally, ₹1,050 crore has been allocated under the heads H-CITI roads, H-CITI road maintenance and H-CITI drains. Debt servicing burden has been brought down from ₹2,640 crore to ₹2,215 crore. Housing budget has been brought down from ₹150 crore to ₹100 crore.
The budget proposals will be placed before the council’s general body meeting, after which they will be sent to the state government for approval.
The standing committee has cleared a total 15 agenda items and seven additional non-agenda items, apart from the budget. These include proposal for a tour of Chandigarh and Ahmedabad for the corporators and officials.
Curated by Aisha Patel
