Overview
- Praja released the Citizens’ Manifesto in Mumbai on December 2 and said it will meet candidates from all major parties over the next two weeks as the BMC approaches four years under state-appointed administration.
- The plan’s centerpiece is an open-data portal publishing tenders, budgets, ward-level expenditure and performance metrics for health, environment and air quality.
- The manifesto calls for mandatory service-level benchmarks, quarterly ward reports, five-year service commitments, live-streamed public meetings and a unified digital platform for citizen participation.
- Praja’s data flags persistent service gaps, including average water supply of 45 LPCD in slums and 135 LPCD in residential buildings, 71% of zones receiving up to four hours of water daily, 38,985 road complaints since 2021 and slow garbage complaint resolution versus the one-day charter target.
- The report highlights public health staffing shortages as of December 2023 with 31% medical and 42% para-medical vacancies, leaving 13 government health personnel per 10,000 population.