Mumbai : In startling data revealing the disparity of funds allocation by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) within its 24 administrative wards and the regions of Mumbai, over the past five years, while the BMC’s overall budget has nearly doubled—from Rs 39,027 crore in 2021–22 to Rs 74,367 crore in 2025–26—the share allocated to wards has steadily declined from 18% to just 11%.
The trend signals a growing gap in capital investment between overall city projects and local ward-level needs, with wards receiving a much smaller proportion of funds in recent years.
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The data was released by the Praja Foundation, in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), whic