BMC should prioritise health & tax collection: Corporators

A day before the municipal budget, senior corporators have said that the civic budget for the 2021-2022 financial year must focus on strengthening the health infrastructure of the city. Earlier, this week, leaders of the opposition met municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal and stated that the local level health infrastructure needs to be strengthened as the pandemic continues to be here. “More than 60 per cent of Mumbaikars reside in the slum areas and they are heavily dependent in civic-run hospitals and dispensaries, more funds should be allotted in the public health sector and steps should be taken in filling the empty posts in various dispensaries and hospitals,” Ravi Raja, Leader of Opposition (LoP) and senior Congress corporator told FPJ.