BHUBANESWAR: With two days to go for the end of the current financial year, the revenue collected by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has crossed the amount generated last year.
Despite two waves of Covid pandemic and the urban local body election, the BMC has been able to fetch Rs 124 crore, Rs 6 crore more than that of last year’s collection. In the next two days, the civic body hopes to generate another Rs 20 crore, that will take the total annual revenue collection close to Rs 150 crore. In the last financial year, the BMC had earned Rs 118 crore despite the first wave of the pandemic.