New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Voting for 29 municipal corporations, including the BMC, in Maharashtra is scheduled for 15 January. More than 15,000 candidates are in the fray.

In Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) alone, 1,700 candidates are contesting in 227 wards in the contest to control India's richest civic body with over Rs.74,000 crore budget for 2025-26 fiscal.

On February 4, 2025, the BMC presented its budget of Rs.74,427 crore for 2025-26. This was its largest-ever budget, up about 14 per cent from the previous year's estimates.

In absence of an elected house, the civic body has been under an administrator since the term of the corporators ended on March 7, 2022.

The February budget comprised Rs.43,166 crore as the capital exp...