India, Feb. 22 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a Rs.94 crore budget to build the Ghaziabad municipal corporation's (GMC) new headquarters in Arthala near Mohan Nagar where the civic body will shift in the next two years, officials said on Saturday.

GMC's new headquarters will be a five-storey building - excluding the ground floor and two basements - on a 21,000 sqm plot with 5,655 sqm dedicated to parking. GMC's current headquarters in Navyug Market is an old building with limited parking space, and is adjacent to the headquarters of the Ghaziabad development authority and near the old bus stand

"The old building has limited space for operating different departments and also to accommodate employees. It is an old building, ...