GREATER NOIDA: The Greater Noida Authority on Saturday approved a budget of Rs 4,399 crore for the financial year 2021-22.
This is only a marginal increase from last year’s allocation of nearly Rs 4,370 crore.
Though a whopping Rs 2,200 crore has been set aside as Greater Noida’s share for the Jewar airport project, Rs 460 crore has been allocated for health and urban services with an eye on Swachh Survekshan.
“Of the Rs 460 crore budget allocated for health and urban services, Rs 129 crore has been set aside for health alone.
This is nearly 67% more than last year’s Rs 85 crore budget for health,” said Ravindra Singh, the Greater Noida Authority’s finance manager, after its 122nd board meeting.
Greater Noida CEO Narendra Bhooshan said that the budget allocated for health and urban services is substantial this year as the city will be participating in Swachh Survekshan.
“This budget will be used to process construction and demolition waste, remediation of waste generated as well as legacy waste, mechanical and manual sweeping, and centralised and decentralised waste management system,” he said.
Of the overall budget for this year, Rs 900 crore has been earmarked for development and construction work, Rs 210 crore for smart village development, Rs 75 crore for metro rail project, Rs 100 crore for stadium and sports facilities and Rs 25 crore for community centres and multipurpose facility developments in the city.
The Greater Noida board also approved the Authority’s proposal to increase land allotment rates across all four categories of sectors, including A, B C and D, to 4.15 %.
However, the benefit of customer integrated system and credit information company transfer charge reduction to half at 5% from the earlier 10% has been given to the institutional, industrial, commercial and builders’ category.
The Authority was also given the go-ahead to adopt the Uttar Pradesh Data Centre Policy 2021 in Greater Noida.
The board also approved a one-time settlement scheme only to defaulters prior to 2016-17 for residential and built-up houses.