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Bengaluru asks citizen ideas for next Budget

Bengaluru is going open source for next year's budget true to its culture

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Bengaluru is going open source for next year’s Budget.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has partnered non-profit citizen initiative Janaagraha to invite the participation of locals ahead of the city’s 2017-18 Budget. The programme, MyCityMyBudget, expects more than 50,000 suggestions from citizens, who can give inputs on how the taxes they pay should be used for the city’s development.
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Sapna Karim, head of MyCityMyBudget, said: “The suggestions will help BBMP understand what the priorities are for citizens and what they expect. In a way, it is involving

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