Budget For Fighting Corruption

Never in its history has Bombay's municipal corporation, with its eye-popping budget of 37,000-crores, been led by the BJP. Instead, the party has piggybacked its way to governing the corporation, which has 227 members, by allying with the Shiv Sena, which has held charge of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC for four consecutive terms.

The Government has cut the budget of the Central Vigilance Commission by about Rs 1.5 crore to nearly Rs 19 crore for meeting its establishment-related expenditure and those of the proposed anti-corruption body, Lokpal. The budgetary provisions given to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for Vigilance is Rs 18.61 crore for 2012-13 as a...

Never in its history has Bombay's municipal corporation, with its eye-popping budget of 37,000-crores, been led by the BJP. Instead, the party has piggybacked its way to governing the corporation, which has 227 members, by allying with the Shiv Sena, which has held charge of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC for four consecutive terms.

The Government has cut the budget of the Central Vigilance Commission by about Rs 1.5 crore to nearly Rs 19 crore for meeting its establishment-related expenditure and those of the proposed anti-corruption body, Lokpal. The budgetary provisions given to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for Vigilance is Rs 18.61 crore for 2012-13 as a...