The Health Department has, however, projected that it will make Rs 50,000 by the end of this fiscal year.

The medical fee is Rs 1 for every patient who comes in for examination in dispensaries. Medicines are provided free of cost. Though the dispensaries are not being run with a profit motive, the number of patients is steadily falling. Last year, the Health Department collected Rs 98,000 as medical fees.

A few old stocks of medicines were running till last year.

Public libraries are also another sector where the fee collected is much less than the expenditure. The department has earned only Rs 2,000. It has projected that the income will be Rs 25,000 by the end of this financial year.

However, expenditure on the establishment of libraries for this fiscal was Rs 48.46 lakh.

Newsline has already reported that public libraries are in a shambles and hence, city residents hardly visit them.

Copying fee is another such sector. The expenditure on establishment was Rs 2.91 lakh while the income projected was Rs 2.40 lakh.

The department, however, has earned Rs 1.81 lakh by the end of December 2007. Copying fee is collected from people who ask for photocopies of documents of MC projects and files according to their requirement.

The building application fee was Rs 2.60 crore while the expenditure on establishment of the branch was Rs 2.79 crore.

Ludhiana is seeing a boom in the construction sector. So the building department has the scope of making much more money.

There are several cases where commercial buildings are being built on residential land.

In one such case, the MC collected Rs 19 lakh from a building owner in Sarabha Nagar.