The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to conduct on Tuesday its lottery for reservation of the 227 wards for the upcoming civic polls, which is expected to be held early next year.

According to the civic officials, around 27 per cent or 61 of the total seats will be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates, around 15 will be reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates and two seats will be reserved for candidates from Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities. Out of the total 227 wards, 50 per cent (113 or 114) will be reserved for women candidates, which include the reserved seats. Around 75 of the 227 seats will be for open category.

“At present, all the 29 municipal corporations are running without elected representatives and all of them will conduct a lottery of al

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