REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PATTERN OF MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OF PUNJAB-A CASE STUDY OF JALANDHAR AND AMRITSAR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

Municipal corporations in Punjab have the statutory responsibility to provide basic amenities to its citizens. But they are under fiscal stress as they are getting very less help from the state governments to meet their expenses. The present study is an attempt to study the revenue and expenditure pattern of two municipal corporations in Punjab namely jalandhar municipal Corporation an Amritsar Municipal corporations. The findings of the study reveals that as grants from the government to these local government is very less in comparison to their expenditure ,so they are compelled to meet their establishment expenditure from the general income which should otherwise be spent on providing civic amenities to the public.