Policy Briefs & Reports

PAISA for Municipalities

Avani Kapur
Swaroop Iyengar, Tanvi Bhatikar, T.R. Raghunandan

Centre for Policy Research

June 15, 2021

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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