BMC to present its budget 2026 on Feb 25, here`s all you need to know

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will present its budget estimates for the financial year 2026-27 on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, officials said on Tuesday.

This is for the first time in four years, the BMC will present its annual budget in the presence of sitting corporators, elected after the recently held long-awaited civic polls.

The budget will be presented at the BMC headquarters on Mahapalika Marg in Fort area of south Mumbai.

Dr Avinash Dhakane, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Eastern Suburbs), will first present the education department’s budget estimates.

The presentation will be made before the Education Committee at 11 am in the Education Committee Hall on the second floor of the main BMC building.

Later in the day, Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani will present the overall BMC Budget estimates for 2026–27 before the Standing Committee, the officials said.

The session will be held at 2 pm in the Standing Committee Hall on the first floor of the headquarters.

Following the formal presentations, Commissioner Gagrani will address the media at 3.30 pm in the Commissioner’s Hall on the second floor of the main building.

Previous budgets

The five-year term of the BMC house that was elected in 2017 ended at midnight on March 7, 2022. Since then, BMC has presented three budgets — 2023, 2024, and 2025 — through the administrator appointed by the Government of Maharashtra and Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani. Since then the budget has seen a focus on expenditure on big-ticket infrastructure projects such as the Sewage Treatment Plants (Rs 27,000 crore), the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, the last leg of the Coastal Road between Versova and Dahisar, the waste-to-energy plant at Deonar Dumping Ground, the road concreting works (Rs 17,000 crore), the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) and various bridges in the city.

Focus likely to be on infra and development

Each year, the BMC Budget has focused on planned works which are long-term projects and this year to it is likely that the major focus would be on city`s upcoming infrastructure and development projects. However, officials had earlier told mid-day that it cannot be said that the budget did not focus on local infrastructure needs of the city — enhancement in hospital or school infrastructures.

The budget operated without feedback that we get from elected representatives, which can shed light on local demands and alleviate needs in everyday life, an official had earlier stated.

Budget has increased over the years

The percentage of capital expenditure in the budget has increased from 36 per cent in 2022, when there was an elected body, to 58 per cent in 2025. The budget size also increased from Rs 38,515 crore in 2022 to Rs 74,366 in 2025, according to information from the Mumbai civic body.