Rs.12-crore deficit budget for Tiruchi.

Proposals on establishing bicycle lanes on three arterial roads in the city, pedestrian pavements around the Srirangam Ranganathaswamy Temple, revival of the Thillai Nagar market, and construction of a new market at Kattur Pappakurichi and establishment of a bio-methanisation plant to generate energy from waste are some of the salient features of the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation Budget for 2014-15.

The Budget estimates, tabled at an urgent meeting of the corporation council chaired by Mayor A. Jaya recently, project the civic body's total revenue for the next financial year at Rs. 304.46 crore and expenditure at Rs. 316.51 crore, leaving a deficit of Rs.12.05 crore.

The Corporation has managed to wipe out a substantial portion of the budgetary deficit for the current financial year.

THE HINDU