TIRUPPUR: Mayor N Dinesh Kumar presented the budget for Tiruppur Corporation for 2025-26 at a special meeting of the council on Friday. According to the mayor, there is surplus of Rs 4 crore. The estimated revenue will be Rs 1,522 crore and expenditure will be Rs 1,517.97 crore.
While councillors of the DMK and its allies welcomed the budget, those from AIADMK and BJP staged a walkout saying it did not fulfil their expectations.
Presenting the budget, the mayor said it focuses on 40 key aspects including drinking water supply, solid waste management, school development, UGD, roads, stray dog control, etc.
Speaking to TNIE, Dinesh Kumar said, “Tiruppur Municipal Corporation was formed in the year 2008. This is the first time in the history of the corporation that a surplus budget has been presented. For this, I have taken steps to reduce unnecessary expenses.
There are several new announcements. We will set up offices with modern facilities for councillors. If they have an office, the public can visit them at any time. And, we have allocated Rs 15 crore for 60 corporation wards, with a special fund of Rs 25 lakh each for councillors.”
“Solid waste management is a huge challenge for us. We have given importance to that in this budget. Around 600 metric tons of garbage is collected in Tiruppur every day. Out of this 150 metric tonnes of garbage is sent to micro composting centres (MCC). Around 220 metric tonnes are sent to recycling projects.
To overcome the challenges faced in solid waste management, a work order has been issued to a private company to set up a Bio-CNG plant with a capacity of approximately 200 metric tonnes. Work on this will begin soon, “ he said adding a waste-to-energy plant in collaboration with the Coimbatore corporation. This will handle 31% of dry and combustible waste.
Further, he said, “Stray dogs are a major problem faced by people. Animal birth control (ABC) centres will be set up in the first and second zones of the corporation at an estimated cost of Rs 55 lakh each. We are going to set up two electric crematoriums to cremate dogs.”
The Corporation Commissioner S Ramamoorthy, Deputy Mayor R Balsubaramaniam and all councillors were present during the budget presentation.