Bhubaneswar: The housing and urban development department has directed the municipal corporation to resubmit its annual budget for 2018-19 after finding certain deficiencies in the proposal submitted by the civic body this year.

The state government has found that the actual receipt and expenditure figure for 2015-16 and revenue mobilisation data for 2015-16 and 2016-17 as well as the receipt and expenditure figure for 2016-17 submitted by the civic body shows a huge financial mismatch.

The department also found that the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation did not make ward-wise estimation of funds that requires to be done for various projects under the Orissa Municipal Corporation Act, 2003.

"We have found the deficiencies and asked for their clarification," said an official of urban development department.

He said the civic body has been asked to submit a fresh budget proposal with detail clarifications regarding the deficiencies made in the previous one.

"They will have to re-submit the proposal by the end of this month failing which necessary action will be taken against them," said the civic official.

The civic body has submitted a budget proposal of Rs 422 crore for 2018-19 to the housing and urban development department for its approval. On revenue mobilisation data, the civic body also claimed to have collected Rs 135 crore.

"Each budget has a component of 'opening balance'. The opening balance is calculated based on the receipt and expenditures from the previous years. There might be some deficiencies while calculating the amount at our level," said a civic body official.

Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena said there might be some problems while calculating the amounts. "We along with our financial team will work on the deficiencies in the budget proposal and resubmit it for government's approval," said Jena.