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Many more welfare schemes in Chennai Corporation budget

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FACTS AND FIGURES: Chairperson of the Committee on Taxation and Finance of Chennai Corporation Radha Sambandan presenting the budget for 2010-11 on Monday.

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation Budget for 2010-2011 includes a large number of welfare schemes in the health and education sectors. However, there is no change in the tax rates. Chairperson of the civic body's Committee on Taxation and Finance Radha Sambandan presented the Budget on Monday.

Addressing the Council, Mayor M.Subramanian said Rs.101.87 crore would be spent on improvement and maintenance of interior roads and there were proposals to rename all Corporation schools as Chennai School and construct a 200-bed Communicable Diseases Hospital in south Chennai.

The budget document said Rs.632.50 crore was to be allotted towards capital works in 2010-11, nearly 20 per cent more than last year. The total revenue was estimated to be Rs.1,787.90 crore and the total expenditure, Rs.1,789.03 crore.

Efforts would be taken to increase property tax collection with the help of data obtained from the TNEB, he said

The collection of property tax in the current fiscal is likely to be Rs.375 crore as against the previous year's collection of Rs.320 crore.

The estimated property tax collection for 2010-11 is Rs.380 crore and profession tax, Rs.150 crore. An increase of financial powers of ward committee would be recommended, he added.

For the World Classical Tamil Conference, the Corporation would send a ‘float' depicting its activities and services to promote Tamil.

A total of 50 main roads would be named after Tamil scholars. As part of the Vaayil Thorum Valluvam scheme, around 3,500 office buildings of the civic body would have inscriptions of Thirukkural.

The website of the Chennai Corporation would be launched in Tamil also.

Efforts would be taken to ensure prominence for Tamil words on signboards of shops, said Mr.Subramanian.

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