Naming and renaming of roads and road junctions reign really high on the minds of the 227 BMC corporators that people have elected. A report on civic issues by Praja claims that Mumbai's corporators asked 208 questions on road conditions and 158 on renaming of roads in the ward committee meetings held between January 18 and December 18, 2018. While questions close to the citizen's heart such as solid waste management (86), healthcare (29), education (13) and water supply (67) were low on priority.

Milind Maske, director of Praja said that there is no doubt that corporators held more meetings in 2018 compared to 2017 and asked questions. "However, the number of questions on the naming of roads is higher than other issues," Maske said.

The report states that in the period of the last 22 months (March 2017-December 2018), BMC corporators asked 283 questions pertaining to naming or renaming of roads. If divided year wise then between March-December 2017, they asked 125 questions while between January-December 2018, these public representatives asked 158 questions on the same.

Praja Report

No. of questions asked by councillors from Jan-Dec 2018