our cities and their budgets

this is from the RBI report on municipal finances.

leaving aside mumbai, all the other 7 cities add up to just less than mumbai.
for the record, the latest Mumbai Corporation Education Department budget for 2008-09 is over Rs 1000 crore, which itself is more than the overall budget of all the cities.

considering that over 50% are slum dwellers and of them, the per capita figures are just amazing.
the city is quite astonishing.

the budget values is in Rs crore.

city	budget	per capita
greater mumbai	4162	3417
surat	662	2577
pune	507	1890
ahemdabad	599	1668
chennai	591	1385
hyderabad	338	964
delhi	880	872
bangalore	369	810