Murtaza Wahab presents Rs31.89b surplus budget for KMC

Karachi (HRNW) Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab has announced an Rs31.89 billion budget for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC).

At a news conference on Wednesday, Wahab said he was presenting a surplus KMC budget for the next fiscal year 2022-2023, with a total revenue target set at Rs31.91 billion and total expenditure estimated at Rs31.89 billion. The surplus was calculated at Rs16.128 million.

The administrator explained the performance of the government along with the detail of the project carried out in the last six or seven months.

Taking a jibe at former administrator Waseem Akhtar, Murtaza Wahab said in the past, they would cry all the time they had no power, we have dismantled that narrative.

“When it rained [earlier this week] every local bodies department had been activated across the city and where there was a complaint about the accumulation of rainwater, I went there with the staff to control the situation.”

He claimed that in the past rainwater used to stagnate around Nagan Chowrangi and KDA Chowrangi, but this time there was no stagnant water in the area.

In addition, he stated, the authorities have been working to restore the public parks and over 40 parks have been restored in the last six months.

The construction of roads is underway in Old City Area, Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan, and around the Jinnah Hospital.