India, March 26 -- The 2025-26 Delhi Budget set aside Rs.10,357 crore for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), a 25% increase over the Revised Estimates for the previous financial year, as chief minister Rekha Gupta stressed that the hiked funding would help the civic body solve the mismanagement of sanitation in the Capital.

"Of this, Rs.3,560 crore will be for education, health care and sanitation, Rs.3,337 crore will be given in the form of basic tax assignment (BTA). Further, Rs.3,640 crore will be given as stamp and registration fees and one-time parking charges," said the chief minister.

Gupta, who was a municipal councillor for 12 years before being elected chief minister last month, also accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of...