BMC budget 2019 LIVE Updates. Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta will be presenting the BMC budget 2019 for Mumbai on February 4, 2019, Monday, along with other BMC officials. It is said that the BMC Budget 2019 may cross Rs 30,000 crore and will also include the education budget.
For 2019-20, the fiscal budget of the civic body has been increased by 12.60 per cent. Last year, the budget was ₹27,258 crore
The civic body will appoint counsellors for imparting life skills and initiating talks about mental health in municipal schools under the private public partnership (PPP).
Mumbai's civic body will set up Science centres in two places in Eastern and Western suburbs. BMC has made provision of ₹1.20 crore for the same.
The civic body will construct a language laboratory to develop the language skills of the students. BMC has allocated ₹1.30 crore for the same.
Mumbai's civic body has decided to initiate 'Tinker Lab' for the students from 5th to 8th standard. Currently, there are 208 computer labs in BMC-run schools. BMC will promote learning through 3D Models of any objects through the Tinker Labs.
From 2019-20, BMC-run school students will be taken to the Penguin centre in Byculla Zoo for Penguin Darshan during their field trip
In its budget for the financial year 2019-20, BMC will create seven sports academy centres in which the civic school students will be given training in 9 types of sports and games including football, boxing, judo, wrestling, etc.
This scheme introduced by the civic body will provide the students dress, shoes, school bags, and other necessary items
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