WILL BMC GET THE CONTROL KEY?
While presenting the Rs 39,039 crore budget of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for 2021-22—the largest ever in the corporation’s history and 17 per cent higher than the previous year—on February 3, commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal brought up a longstanding demand of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. He proposed that the state government appoint the BMC as the sole planning authority for Mumbai to speed up development of infrastructure in the metropolis. Thackeray, as
