The Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation has posted record Plan expenditure at over 90% in the 2021-22 financial year. As per official figures, the civic body has recorded 93.39% expenditure of Plan funds. In the previous year, the Corporation had recorded an expenditure of 74%. Among municipal Corporations, Thiruvananthapuram stands second behind Kollam, which has recorded 97.63% expenditure.
The city Corporation has spent ₹202.38 crore out of the total of ₹216.71 crore allocated in the Plan in the previous financial year. The civic body's total allocation is more than double that of the allocation for most Corporations.
In fact, most urban bodies have performed better than in previous years. The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation also improved its overall tax collection with a total of ₹88-crore collected in 2021-22, with the data of the last three days of the financial year to be synchronised. In the previous year, the figure stood at ₹76 crore.
