Each year, the annual budget is presented for the upcoming financial year - along with a revised estimate of the budget for the previous year, and the actuals for the year preceding that. For example, the 2023-24 budget document includes the revised estimate for 2022-23, and the actual figures for 2021-22. A comparative analysis of the budgeted and actual figures for the year 2021-22, makes for a good point of analysis. While reading these numbers we must keep in mind that 2021-22 was a Covid year.
On comparing the budgeted Income figures and the actuals for the year 2021-22, we observe a shortfall of 18.68 %. This means that only 81.32 % of the income target for the year 2022-23 was achieved.
Being a year affected by COVID-19, there was a significant increase in funds from the State Government for Public Health, hence we can observe an increase of 229% in the actual income for Public Health as compared to the budgeted values.
Collections from LBT and funds from GST collections have both surpassed the budgeted values in the year 2021-22.
The total actual income from Property Tax was only 46 % of the budgeted amount, with the actual collections from citizens being the lowest at 43.46 % of the budgeted amount.
Of the 200 crore that were expected from sale of bonds for the 24 * 7 water supply scheme, no amount is seen to have been collected. This has led to the actual income from Water Supply department to be only 55% of the budgeted income.
On comparing the budgeted expenditure figures for the year 2021-22 and the actuals we observe a shortfall of 9.86 %.
This means that only 90.14 % of the budgeted expenditure was executed in the year 2021-22.
The most significant gaps in expenditure were in Education, Public Utilities and Roads.
The Public Health department recorded a significant over-spending to the tune of 63.53 % which is not surprising in a Covid year.
Overall we can observe that the corporation has been able to spend close to 85.42% of the budgeted expenditure on Water Supply. Within which supply using tankers records a 79.12 % over expenditure.