India, Aug. 16 -- In a notice issued on August 14, the state government included 29 villages of Palghar district in the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC). The districts, which were a part of the VVCMC until 2011, had dropped out after political parties in the region refused to be a part of the corporation.

The VVCMC was formed in 2009 by merging the four municipal councils of Vasai, Nalla Sopara, Naigaon and Virar. Vasai MLA Sneha Dube Pandit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said, "When the VVCMC was formed, 52 villages were a part of it."

Addressing why the 29 villages had been added back to the corporation Pandit said, "Now that the Vadhavan port is coming and the coastal road is being extended to Palghar, we all wan...