Mumbai municipality’s budget is bigger than these states — how India’s largest civic body earns and spends
Voting for 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the BMC, is scheduled for 15 January. More than 15,000 candidates are in the fray. In the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) alone, 1,700 candidates are contesting in 227 wards to control India’s richest civic body, which has an over ₹74,000 crore budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year….