India, April 14 -- LUCKNOW The Lucknow Municipal Corporation's (LMC) House meeting on Tuesday for the passage of the proposed budget for financial year 2025-26 is likely to witness sharp protests, with corporators preparing to raise objections over fund utilisation restrictions, changes to the road cleaning contract, and poor functioning of the Jalkal department.

Over 55 corporators out of 110 attended a preparatory meeting called by the mayor at her Camp Office on Monday to discuss the agenda of the LMC House. Many strongly opposed the move to make it mandatory to purchase items like lime for roads, e-rickshaws for garbage collection and deep freezers for crematoriums, etc, using the recently increased ward development fund. The corpora...