Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) spent around 1,300 crore at the battle of Pandemi Covid-19 this year.
With all the funds that are intended for pandemic for this year, the richest civil bodies in the country have transferred a proposal to transfer the additional 300 crore for Covid’s relevant expenditure until March 2022.
In its budget in February 2021, BMC has been allocated around RS 1,380 Crore for Covid and out of this, RS 1303 Crore has been used in November 2021.
City corporation will now transfer Hospital 300 Crore from his emergency funds to pay the Covid bill.
The Civic’s body has used around RS 400 Crore from its emergency funds to handle Pandemi-19 Pandemi BMC officials say that it might require more funds for Covid and it will divert money from funds as well for land acquisition.
BMC has placed a proposal to divert RS 300 Crore to Covid before the Standing Civic Committee.
According to opposition parties, so far, BMC has spent almost 3,000 crore crore at battle pandemic.
Some purchases by BMC have faced charges of corruption and irregularities.
BJP has demanded white papers on BMC expenditures in Covid-19.
“Despite writing several letters and asking questions, BMC failed to send detailed contracts.
Almost every purchase has been reduced and has a large siphoning of money on behalf of a pandemic.
The majority of contracts are given without floating tenders.
This is how the builder bagged a contract to build a jumbo center.
BMC must be clean and serve white paper on all Covid expenditures from March 2020 to March 2022, “said BJP Corporator Vinod Mishra.
Most of the cost of Covid BMC is for maintenance and maintenance of jumbo centers and rent for this center.
BMC will spend 104 Rs Crore to operate from the new Jumbo Covid-19 centers.
Having planned to provide a new three jumbo center operation in the Malad, Sion and Kanjurmarg along with parts of them in BKC and Deferites to a private agent.
PMC officials said the Monad Jumbo Center would be the largest of five, with 2,170 beds, including 190 ICU and 1,536 beds supported by oxygen.
There are 1,700 beds in Kanjijurmarg, and 1,100 beds at the Sion Center.
The proposal for the Oxygen Pipe Lay RS 1 Croreto at the Monad Jumbo Center was also placed in the presence of the Standing Civic Committee on Friday.