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First India Bureau Mumbai: After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s budget was presented last month, Rs1 crore was allocated to electoral wards where the MVA had a stronghold. On learning of disparity between funds made available to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillors, the MVA leaders had demanded Rs3 crore each for development work in their electoral wards. However, now it seems like the dream will not be coming true.

BMC Administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal approved the 2023-24 civic budget in the standing committee, but nothing has been done to ‘çorrect’ the disparity in funds allocated to MVA and BJP wards.

However, the standing committee led by civic administrators has made a provision of Rs700 crore instead, which is to be used as per approval of the guardian minister of wards.

In the budget present- ed on February 04, it, the civic administration had made a provision of Rs381 crore for 227 electoral wards under ‘Provision for providing various basic civic amenities along with development works’.

While 77 electoral wards received Rs3 crore in funds each, the remaining 150 wards got Rs1 crore each.

These 77 wards are BJP-dominated wards while the other 147 wards out of 150 belong to the MVA comprising

After a report by Midday, MVA members met Chahal and demanded equal distribution of funds in all wards.

Last week, the standing committee approved the civic budget. However, according to the BMC portal, there is no change in fund provision for electoral wards.

Samajwadi Party MLA and former councillor Rais Shaikh said, “The BMC is an independent body. How can the civic chief allow the guardian minister to interfere in money distribution?”

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Mumbai: In a notification, the Central government has confirmed the appointments of four additional judges of the Bombay High Court as permanent judges. The judges who have been elevated to the position are Justice Rajesh Narayandas Laddha, Justice Sanjay Ganpatrao Mehare, Justice Govinda Anand Sanap and Justice Shivkumar Dige.

The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names for appointment as permanent judges at the Bombay High Court on February 15, 2023. All four of them had taken charge as additional judges on June 06, 2021.

Justice Sanjay Gangapurwala was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in December last year after elevation of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta as a SC judge.