Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) budget scheduled to be presented tomorrow (on Wednesday) is likely to dole out plenty of sops. Development of helipads in all eight zones of the city, tree parks and bio-methane plants to treat waste at ward level are among the slew of projects which may be announced.

Congress and JD(S), ruling parties in the civic agency, are banking on the budget to hype their contributions to Bengaluru while wooing voters, notwithstanding the grim state of the city’s administration.

The third budget of the coalition will be presented by JD(S) member M Mahadev, chairman of the standing committee on finance and taxation.

Sources said there will be a special focus on the health sector. “Schemes like reimbursement of medical cost to the poor, 100 bike ambulances, and improvement of facilities at dialysis centres among others will be announced,” he added.

In order to avoid flooding and push up the plummeting groundwater table, BBMP is set to announce a project to dig percolation pits along the length of storm water drains (SWDs) in the city. “For a cleaner and greener city, waste-to-biogas plants at ward level are expected to be announced. This will stop the burden of transporting waste from one place to another,” said a source.

BBMP may promise Bengalureans the moon, but the reality is that most of the schemes announced in the past haven’t seen the light of the day. A look at budget statistics of the past six years shows not even 50 per cent of the outlays have been spent due to fall in revenue generation or lack of necessary support from the government in terms of grants.