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

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

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

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

The February budg...