Overview
- Mumbai’s BMC completed its draw for 227 wards, reserving 114 for women, 61 for OBC, 15 for SC and 2 for ST, with the process overseen by Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani and conducted publicly.
- Pune’s PMC finalised reservations for 165 seats, assigning 83 to women and meeting constitutional quotas of 22 SC, 44 OBC and 2 ST seats under Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram.
- Pimpri-Chinchwad’s PCMC held a four-phase lottery for 128 seats, reserving 64 for women, 20 for SC (10 women), 3 for ST (2 women) and 34 for OBC (17 women), with tickets drawn in view of citizens.
- BMC will publish its draft reservation list on November 14 with objections accepted through November 20 before a final list on November 28, while PMC will publish its draft on November 17 and take objections through November 24.
- Parties are recalibrating candidate plans as several prominent aspirants lost their home wards to new reservations, including Milind Vaidya, Ravi Raja and Asif Zakaria, with draws broadcast live to underscore transparency.