The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is the governing civic body of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra.
More well funded than any other municipal corporation in India, its annual budget exceeds that of some of the country's smaller states. Established by the legislature of British India under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act 1888, the BMC is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some suburbs.__TOC__
History The Municipal administration in the erstwhile Bombay existed since 1805. During this period the civic administration was vested in a Court of Petty Sessions. Up to the end of 18th century the administration of Bombay was conducted by the President and Council directly. However, since the Municipal administration had been inefficient, multiple efforts were undertaken by the British administration. The first major change came through in the year 1865 with a Municipal Corporation being established as a Body Corporate and Sir Arthur Crawford was appointed as the first Municipal Commissioner.
Thereafter in 1872, after enactment of the Bombay Act No. III of 1872, a regular Corporation was established consisting of 64 elected Corporators who were the rate (tax) payers with the right to vote being restricted to the tax payers only. Sir Pherozeshah Mehta was instrumental in the drafting of the 1872 Act which led to the establishment of the Corporation as seen today. Sir Pherozeshah served as a Municipal Commissioner in 1873 and served as Chairman in 1884–86, and President in 1905 and 1911. Fondly called as the Father of Municipal Government in Bombay, a large statue of Sir Pherozeshah was erected in 1923 in his memory and respect and adorns the Municipal Corporation Building.
The Imperial Legislative Council passed the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act 1888, which streamlined the operations of the Corporation by way of better administration and by vesting proper responsibilities in its representatives. The Act, with some amendments, remains in force.
Administration The BMC is headed by an IAS officer who serves as Municipal Commissioner, wielding executive power. The Municipal Commissioner is one of the authorities under the 1888 Act. The Municipal Commissioner is head of Executive Wing under section 54 of the Act, appointed by the Government of Maharashtra. The Municipal Commissioner is responsible for developing & maintaining civic infrastructure of the city like water supply, roads, storm water, drainage and efficient delivery of various services to the citizens of Mumbai. The Municipal Commissioner deputes various departments to the Additional Municipal Commissioners, Deputy Municipal Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners and various heads of Department in discharge of his functions. The Municipal Commissioner is assisted by Additional Municipal Commissioners, Deputy Municipal Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners.
As of June 2008, all administrative business in the BMC was conducted in Marathi, a decision that sparked controversy, following which the BMC eased its stance and began accepting forms in English.
+ City officials Mayor Ritu Tawde 7 February 2026 Deputy Mayor Sanjay Ghadi 7 February 2026 Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide 31 March 2026 Administrator Bhushan Gagrani, IAS 21 March 2024
Legislature In order to make the administration of the city convenient, it has been divided into seven zones. Further, these seven zones have 3 to 5 wards each. In total, Mumbai has been divided into 24 administrative wards that are ordered alphabetically from Ward A to Ward T. The 24 administrative wards are further divided into 227 civic electoral wards or constituencies. The smallest of the 24 administrative wards is the B-Ward with only 3 electoral wards while the P North-Ward is the largest with 16 electoral wards.
Every electoral ward is led by a Corporator. The Corporator is the in-charge of the electoral ward and is responsible towards its development in general.
As is the case with Legislative Bodies, the Elections for electing the Corporators is held every 5 years. The previous elections were held in 2026. Harshad Karkar from Shiv-Sena was the youngest candidate at age 23 to win the Elections in 2017.
The Corporators among themselves are to elect a Mayor who is the First Citizen of Mumbai. Mayors have two distinct roles- the decorative role of representing and upholding the dignity of the city and the functional role of presiding over the deliberations of the Corporation. As the presiding authority at the Corporation Meetings, his/her role is confined to the four corners of the Corporation Hall. The decorative role, however, extends far beyond the city and the country to other parts of world. This is seen whenever a foreign dignitary or a V.V.I.P. visits the city and the State Government invites the Mayor to receive the honoured guest on behalf of the Citizens. Thus, when the Mayor receives or sees the guest off, he does it on behalf of all the citizens of Mumbai. Similarly, when the Mayor accords a civic reception or presents a civic address to a Monarch, or a President or a Prime Minister of any country, he does so in the name of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the citizens of Mumbai. In such situations, the Mayor is seen as the First Citizen. Mayor is also given a place of prominence at Civic, Government and other social functions. The term of the office of the Mayor is 2.5 years.
Current members The 227 wards of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and their councillors are listed below in the serial wise order. The last elections were held on 15 January 2026 with their results being declared on 16 January 2026.
Mayor: Ritu TawdeDeputy Mayor: Sanjay Ghadi Area Ward No. Councillor Party Remarks R–North 1 Rekha Yadav 2 Tejasvee Ghosalkar 3 Prakash Darekar 4 Mangesh Pangare 5 Sanjay Ghadi Deputy Mayor 6 Diksha Karkar 7 Ganesh Khankar 8 Yogita Patil R–Central 9 Shivanand Shetty 10 Jitendra Patel 11 Aditi Khursange 12 Sarika Jhore 13 Rani Trivedi 14 Seema Shinde 15 Jignasa Shah 16 Shweta Korgaonkar 17 Shilpa Sangore 18 Sandhya Doshi R–South 19 Dakshata Kavthankar 20 Deepak Tawde 21 Leena Deherkar 22 Himanshu Parekh 23 Shiv Kumar Jha 24 Swati Jaiswal 25 Nisha Parulekar 26 Dharmendra Kale 27 Neelam Gurav 28 Ajanta Yadav 29 Sachin Patil 30 Dhaval Vora 31 Manisha Yadav P–North 32 Geeta Bhandari 33 Mohammad Moeen Siddique 34 Hyder Aslam Shaikh 35 Yogesh Verma 36 Siddharth Sharma 37 Yogita Prashant 38 Surekha Parab 39 Pushpa Kalambe 40 Tulsiram Shinde 41 Suhas Wadkar 42 Dhanashree Bharadkar 43 Ajit Raorane 44 Sangeeta Sharma 45 Sanjay Kamble 46 Yogita Koli 47 Tajinder Singh Tiwana 48 Rafiq Eliyas Shaikh 49 Sangeeta Koli P–South 50 Vikram Rajput 51 Varsha Tembhavkar 52 Preeti Satam 53 Jitendra Valvi 54 Ankit Prabhu 55 Harsh Patel 56 Lakshmi Bhatia 57 Shrikala Pillay 58 Sandeep Patel K–West 59 Shailesh Phanse 60 Sayali Kulkarni 61 Divya Avaneesh Singh 62 Zeeshan Changez Multani 63 Rupesh Savarkar 64 Saba Harun Khan 65 Vitthal Banderi 66 Meher Mohsin Haider 67 Deepak Kotekar 68 Rohan Rathod 69 Sudha Singh 70 Aneesh Makwaneey 71 Sunita Mehta K–East 72 Mamata Yadav 73 Lona Rawat 74 Vidya Arya Kangane 75 Pramod Sawant 76 Prakash Musale 77 Shivani Parab 78 Nazia Safi 79 Mansi Madhukar 80 Disha Yadav 81 Kesharben Patel 82 Jagdeshwari Amin 83 Sonali Sabe 84 Anjali Samant 85 Milind Shinde 86 Ritesh Rai H–East 87 Pooja Mahadeshwar 88 Sharvari Parab 89 Gitesh Raut 90 Tulip Miranda 91 Sagun Naik 92 Ibrahim Iqbal Qureshi 93 Rohini Kamble 94 Pragya Bhutkar 95 Hari Shastri 96 Ayesha Khan Shams H–West 97 Hetal Gala 98 Alka Kerkar 99 Chintamani Nivate 100 Swapna Mhatre 101 Karen Demello 102 Raja Siraj Khan T 103 Hetal Markvekar 104 Prakash Gangadhar 105 Anita Vaiti 106 Prabhakar Shinde 107 Neil Somaiya 108 Deepika Ghag S 109 Suresh Shinde 110 Asha Suresh Koparkar 111 Deepak Sawant 112 Sakshi Dalvi 113 Deepmala Baban 114 Rajul Patil 115 Jyoti Rajbhoj 116 Jagruti Patil 117 Shweta Pawaskar 118 Sunita Jadhav 119 Rajesh Sonawane 120 Vishwas Shinde 121 Priyadarshini Thackeray 122 Chandan Sharma N 123 Sunil More 124 Sakina Sheikh 125 Suresh Awale 126 Archana Bhalerao 127 Swaroopa Patil 128 Sai Shirke 129 Ashwini Mate 130 Dharmesh Giri 131 Rakhi Jadhav 132 Ritu TawdeMayor 133 Shrutika Kande M–East 134 Ateeq Ahmad Khan 135 Navnath Ban 136 Mohammad Jamir Qureshi 137 Vacant 138 Vacant 139 Shabana Atif Shaikh 140 Vijay Ubale 141 Vitthal Lokre 142 Apeksha Khandekar 143 Shabana Farooq Kazi 144 Dinesh Bablu Panchal 145 Khairnusa Akbar Hussain 146 Samruddhi Kate 147 Pragya Sadafule 148 Anjali Naik M–West 149 Susham Sawant 150 Vaishali Shedkar 151 Kashish Fulwaria 152 Asha Marathe 153 Meenakshi Patankar 154 Mahadev Shigwan 155 Snehal Shivkar L 156 Ashwini Matekar 157 Sarita Mhaske 158 Chitra Sangle 159 Prakash More 160 Kiran Landge 161 Vijayendra Shinde 162 Amir Naseem Khan 163 Shaila Lande 164 Harish Bhandirge 165 Mohammad Ashraf Azmi 166 Meenal Sanjay Turde 167 Saman Arshad Azmi 168 Sayeeda Khan 169 Pravina Morajkar 170 Bushra Malik 171 Rani Yerunkar F–North 172 Rajshree Shirodkar 173 Shilpa Keluskar 174 Sakshi Kanojia 175 Mansi Satamkar 176 Rekha Yadav 177 Kalpesha Kothari 178 Amey Ghole 179 Ayesha Bano 180 Trushna Vishwasrao 181 Pushpa Koli G–North 182 Milind Vaidya 183 Asha Deepak Kale 184 Sajida Babbu Khan 185 T. M. Jagadish 186 Archana Shinde 187 Joseph Koli 188 Bhaskar Shetty 189 Harshala More 190 Sheetal Gambhir Desai 191 Vishakha Raut 192 Yashwant Killedar G–South 193 Hemangi Varlikar 194 Nishikant Shinde 195 Vijay Bhange 196 Padmaja Chemburkar 197 Vanita Narvankar 198 Aboli Khade 199 Kishori Pednekar F–South 200 Urmila Panchal 201 Iram Sajid Siddiqui 202 Shraddha Jadhav 203 Shraddha Pednekar 204 Kiran Tawde 205 Supriya Dalvi 206 Sachin Padwal E 207 Rohidas Lokhande 208 Ramakant Rahate 209 Yamini Jadhav 210 Sonam Jamsutkar 211 Waqar Nisar Ahmed 212 Abrahani Shehzad 213 Nasima Zayed D 214 Ajay Patil 215 Santosh Dhole 216 Rajashree Bhatankar 217 Gaurang Jhaveri 218 Snehal Tendulkar 219 Sunny Sanap C 220 Sampada Mayekar 221 Akash Purohit 222 Rita Makwana B 223 Dyanraj Nikam 224 Rukhsana Noorul Amin A 225 Harshita Narwekar 226 Makarand Narwekar 227 Gauravi Narwekar
Finances and Revenue sources
BMC is one of the richest municipal corporations in Asia. In ten years, the Corporation allocated ₹2.19 lakh crore for the city, higher than the 10-year budget of some Indian states. The BMC Annual Budget of ₹52,619.07 crores for the year 2023-2024 was the first instance that the budget estimate for the BMC to cross ₹50,000 crores in its history.
Controversies and criticism
The BMC has a history of corruption and incompetence, with several officials charged under Prevention of Corruption Act but never prosecuted.
The BMC has been criticized for corruption and incompetence over filling potholes on several major roads, besides not being able to build pothole free roads. Every year, shoddy work done by BMC has led to potholes appear and cause significant impact to traffic flow. Despite requests by Mumbai Police to tackle the issue, the BMC has repeatedly ignored them, forcing officers to take matters into their own hands. The police officers have been involved in this have received praise, who themselves have criticized the BMC for their lacklustre attitudes.
The BMC has been censured for not providing infrastructure for bicyclists, as well as demolishing existing tracks which were constructed "illegally". Due to insufficient infrastructure, bicyclists face severe safety hazards, as several citizens utilize bicycles for short commutes. Furthermore, the BMC has collaborated with Mumbai Police to collect fines from bicyclists if riders are found pedaling on certain prohibited roads and flyovers within the city limits, which is illegal as bicyclists cannot be penalized under the Motor Vehicles Act.