Samajwadi Party’s leader
BMC has 232 corporators including 5 nominated corporators who get Rs. 10,000 basic salary according to 2005 GR. Along with this, they get extra Rs. 150 as wages. Due to inflation, corporators had demanded to increase the salary from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 25,000. The then Standing Committee Chairman Rahul Shewale gave nod to the proposal and then mayor Sunil Prabhu wrote to then CM Prithviraj Chavhan on 6 August 2012 for the same. But no decision was made by the state. Then opposition leaders blamed Congress government for not increasing the salaries. The same is being repeated in BJP led government who have not increased the salary. Eight months back, the state increased MLA’s salary by Rs. 75,000 to Rs. 1.5 lakh and pension from Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 50,000.
However, now SP leader Raees Sheikh wrote to BMC commissioenr Ajoy Mehta to increase the salary from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 50,000 and extra wages from Rs. 150 to Rs. 500. He also asked the BMC commissioner to take the follow up of the previous recommendation. When BMC’s secretary Narayan