Chandigarh, May 21 -- After a year-long pause in developmental activities due to a financial crunch, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) is set to resume small-scale infrastructure works across the city, with mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla on Tuesday, directing the councillors to prepare a list of urgent pending projects worth up to Rs.25 lakh each in their respective wards.

Babla called an all-party councillors meeting on Tuesday and officially announced the allocation of a ward development fund of Rs.25 lakh per councillor.

Despite receiving no additional financial aid from the UT administration or the central government, the civic body is now leaning heavily on revenue generated through taxes, especially property tax, collected in t...