BMC to rope in 46k to ensure smooth polling

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will be roping in around 18,444 people from different departments other than the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to ensure smooth conduct of the February 21 corporation elections in Mumbai.

The Corporation's total requirement is 46,602 persons. Out of these, 24,158 will be made available by the corporation. The rest will be roped in from the state government, sales tax department, school and college staff.

According to the bifurcation recently submitted to the Bombay High Court, the civic body said it will take 125 people from Railways, 3890 from the state government and 900 people from the Sales Tax department. While 1,716 college staff members and 1,1813 from government aided and unaided schools will be roped in for election duty.

The government has already declared February 21 as a public holiday. The officials who will be carrying out election duty will be paid remuneration between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500 per day, and Rs 350 for the day they attend training sessions. There has been objection to the civic body seeking teachers from Unaided Schools' Forum which has moved the high court challenging the demand for its teachers to attend election duty.