The ₹4,950-crore surplus funds of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) for 2024-25, introduced by municipal commissioner Rajesh Narvekar on Tuesday, has some fascinating tasks and providers for residents and even officers to look out for.

To deal with the town’s poor air high quality index (AQI), the municipal physique will strengthen its air-quality monitoring system with extra superior equipment. Accordingly, along with each day guide sweeping by 2,646 sanitation staff, NMMC will procure seven sweeping machines for its metropolis roads of 1,02,000 km.

“Since vehicular traffic is going to increase further, NMMC has decided to upgrade its mechanisms used in the road-sweeping process,” mentioned metropolis engineer Sanjay Desai. “The work order to purchase the sweeping machines, comprising two diesel, four CNG and one electrical vehicle, is already underway. In places where sweeping machines cannot be used, NMMC will purchase battery-operated sweeper machines with a 100-litre hopper capacity.”

Desai added that three fog cannon mist machines have been additionally on the anvil to mitigate the poor AQI. At eight metropolis chowks, the place there’s appreciable visitors, the civic physique has determined to have a static fogging mud suppression system in addition to air-purifying models.

The funds has some main proposals within the well being sector. These embrace growth of the prevailing mother-child hospital at Kopar Khairane, 12 modular OTs for the overall hospitals at Nerul, Airoli and Belapur, MRI centres, a microbiology laboratory, a mammography centre in Vashi General Hospital and a cath lab. “The modular OTs will ensure protection from bacterial and viral infections and enable the medical team to conduct error-free operations,” mentioned Nerul medical officer Dr Uddhav Khilare. “The problem of expensive culture tests from private laboratories will be addressed by setting up microbiology labs in Nerul General Hospital.”

Anticipating the issues that the ever-increasing variety of autos will pose for drivers on the lookout for vacant parking spots, the funds has provisions to develop a parking cellular software. “The idea is to enable residents to locate the areas available for parking,” mentioned an official. With regard to sports activities and schooling, NMMC is laying emphasis on familiarising college students with totally different types of sports activities in addition to synthetic intelligence. “Infrastructure for promoting sports like wrestling, boxing and swimming is being built in different parts of the city,” mentioned an official from the schooling division. “Since this is the age of artificial intelligence, NMMC-run schools will have solar-operated robotics coding and artificial intelligence laboratories. For this, a budgetary allocation of ₹5 crore has been made.”