Chandigarh, Feb. 5 -- Amid the ongoing fiscal crisis, newly elected mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla on Tuesday met UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria and sought urgent additional grant of Rs.170 crore for the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) to meet liabilities including salaries of employees.

Babla requested the administrator to issue necessary directions to the UT to release these funds to ensure that the civic body is able to pay salary, pension, electricity bills, fuel costs, and other essential expenditures for February and March 2025.

Soon after the Babla's victory in the recent mayoral elections, BJP president Jatinder Malhotra had announced that the Centre has approved a special grant of Rs.92 crore but the MC is yet to receive...