India, Feb. 4 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday presented the civic body's Rs.74,427.41 crore budget for 2025-26, a 14% increase over the revised estimate of Rs.65,180.79 crore in 2024-25.

BMC commissioner Bushan Gagrani, who is also the state-appointed administrator of the civic body, presented the budget on Tuesday. This is the third consecutive time that the administrator was presenting the budget and not the deliberative wing, comprising sitting corporators. The civic body has been under an administrator after the term of the elected corporators ended on March 7, 2022.

Gagrani did not announce any new taxes on Tuesday. The corporation is, however, seeking legal opinion to introduce Solid Waste Management (SW...