India, Jan. 10 -- An urgent need to improve the air we breathe took centre stage, perhaps for the first time in a civic election, at a citizens' meet on Friday.

Except for the Congress-Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) alliance, most candidates from other political parties gave the programme 'Meet Your Candidates', organised by Action For Good Governance And Networking In India (AGNI), in Bandra west, a miss.

Issues that recur during every civic election too were discussed. These were challenges relating to civic infrastructure such as the need for better roads, pavements, solid waste management, keeping open spaces free of concrete, sanitation etc.

The administrative H-West ward covers Khar and Bandra and includes six electoral wards: nos ...