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Mira-Bhayandar: The Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) completed 29 months nether administrators regularisation connected 27, August, making it the longest tenure, the civic assemblage has remained without elected representatives since its elevation from assembly to corp successful 2002.
The five-year word of the 95-member location which was single-handedly ruled by the BJP ended connected 27, August 2022, pursuing which municipal commissioner Dilip Dhole donned the relation of administrator. He was succeeded by IAS serviceman Sanjay Katkar connected 9, August, 2023.
MBMC's History of Administrator Rule
The MBMC has travel nether the power of administrators aft a span of astir 2 decades. The past clip an head had been appointed for the civic assemblage was for a little play successful 2002. Notably, the MBMC is not an exception, presently 24 retired of the full 28 municipal corporations successful the authorities bash not person an elected assemblage of nationalist representatives and are being manned solely by state-appointed administrators who are not lone shouldering administrative responsibilities and fiscal functioning, but besides person the last accidental connected deciding the destiny of proposals and different issues pertaining to the civic body.
The orders of appointing administrators successful the lack of elected representatives person been passed successful adherence with sections 6 and 6A of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation (MMC) Act, 1949. The determination comes successful the backdrop of delayed civic polls owed to issues including a ineligible tangle implicit Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservations.
After the parliamentary and assembly elections, the adjacent conflict betwixt governmental parties to wrestle civic bodies successful the authorities continues to get delayed arsenic the Apex Court has scheduled the adjacent proceeding connected petitions related to civic elections connected 25, February.
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