PAISA for Municipalities

Swaroop Iyengar, Tanvi Bhatikar, T.R. Raghunandan , Avani Kapur
(2020)

This study aims to understand the nature and compute the size of the local public sector in the Smart City of Tumakuru, in Karnataka State. It makes use of our flagship methodology Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions Studies in Accountability (PAISA). It aims to understand:

• An analysis of functions devolved to the Municipal
  Corporation.
• Study of Tumakuru Corporation revenues and
  expenditures in financial years (FY) 2014-15 and FY
  2015-16.
• Provide methodologies to attribute expenditure to
  specific wards, and;
• Analyse ward-wise expenditure trends in FY 2014-
  15 and FY 2015-16 across all 35 wards of Tumakuru Corporation.

The data sheets are available here.

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