The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s standing committee has approved Budget proposals to the tune of ₹11,460 crore for the financial year 2026-27, only marginally above the revised estimates for the current financial year at ₹11,010 crore.Of these proposed allocations, ₹2,260 crore have been earmarked for the zones comprising the new areas merged into the corporation recently.Despite the merger, the corporation has pegged its revenue at mere ₹2,245 crore, which is only about 10% higher than the collection from the previous year, 2024-25, and less than seven per cent higher than the revised target for the current year.Together with the revenue from the Town Planning wing at ₹1,200 crore and other heads, the total budgetary revenue is pegged at ₹4,651 crore as against the revised target for the current year at ₹4,620 crore. Contrary to this, a threefold jump is shown in the assigned revenues from other departments, from the targeted ₹81.4 crore for the current year to ₹330 crore in the fresh proposals.State government grants have been raised from ₹3,072 crore this year to ₹3,500 crore for the next, while the same from the central government have been cut down from ₹1,227 crore to ₹719 crore. On the expenditure front, the highest allocation, at ₹1,340 crore, has been made for the road projects taken up under H-CITI. Additionally, ₹1,050 crore has been allocated under the heads H-CITI roads, H-CITI road maintenance and H-CITI drains. Debt servicing burden has been brought down from ₹2,640 crore to ₹2,215 crore. Housing budget has been brought down from ₹150 crore to ₹100 crore.The budget proposals will be placed before the council’s general body meeting, after which they will be sent to the state government for approval.The standing committee has cleared a total 15 agenda items and seven additional non-agenda items, apart from the budget. These include proposal for a tour of Chandigarh and Ahmedabad for the corporators and officials.Published - December 30, 2025 12:50 am IST