Indigenous groups press for nominated BMC seats

Organisations representing Mumbai's indigenous communities have asked political parties to appoint members of these groups to the five nominated seats in the BMC.

- Manoj Ramakrishnan

Ideally, experts on urban policy are nominated to these posts with the objective of assisting the administration in the creation and development of improvement programmes.

However, parties have been nominating their own members to the posts. In the last House, based on their strength, the Shiv Sena, with 84 seats, and the BJP, with 82, nominated two corporators each. The Congress nominated one.