Navi-Mumbai

In a major shock to the city, NCP, the ruling party in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has voted against Navi Mumbai being considered for the SmartCity project. The NCP corporators in the general body meeting on Tuesday refused to support the administration’s proposal for SmartCity.

The Corporators said that they are contesting the move because the NMMC would have barely any role in implementing the project as it will be completely operated and controlled by a Special Purpose Vehicle employed by the Central Govt.

This may result in NMMC being knocked out of the SmartCity competition this year.

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KDMC (Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation) elections are scheduled for the month of October 2015. On last Friday, KDMC declared a list of reserve wards, which also indicated that 27 new villages are in the list. However; for the demarcation of wards KDMC used the census data of 2011. But story doesn’t end here because NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) has opposed and demands that new wards in these villages should be formed and after that they should be involved in the reserved category.

It is expected that elections of KMDC can be the exciting event as recently Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation has included 27 villages in the jurisdiction. Upcoming KMDC elections are gaining controversy and fueling more news after the declaration of new wards under the reserved category. According to reports, there are 50 per cent reservations for women in each ward. As per the statement of Pramod Indurao, VP of NCP, Maharastra, “KMDC has declared reserved wards without any demarcation of the wards. We are opposing the new list of KMDC and soon we are planning to meet the state election commission”.

According to census data of 2011, the population of Kalyan and Dombivli is about 15, 18,762 lakh and there are total 107 seats in the Kalyan – Dombivli Municipal Corporation. With the inclusion of new wards now total number of seat are 122, but our party believes that there should be more seats. Pramod Indurao added that, “There should be at-least 140 seats for 140 wards, as KMDC are using the old census data, so there are need to include current population as well for the ward demarcation”. Out of total 122 seats, 12 seats are reserved for the SC (Scheduled Caste) and 3 seats are reserved for the ST (Scheduled Tribes). And rest 74 seats are open seats and 33 seats are for OBCs. However; there are 50 per cent reservations for women in each ward.

As per the officials of KMDC, “We have used the census data of 2011 for the ward demarcation, The elections will be held as per the order of state election commissions and we have done the ward demarcation according to that. If NCP have any objection on the number of reserved seats in elections, so they can raise their complaint with EC till 10^th August 2015”.