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Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray connected Sunday (January 4, 2025) unveiled their manifesto for the BMC polls, promising fiscal assistance for location helps and women from the Koli community, 100 units of escaped electricity, strengthening of health, nationalist transport and acquisition infrastructure.
The manifesto was launched astatine the Shiv Sena Bhavan, prompting Raj Thackeray to sojourn the enactment office for the archetypal clip successful 20 years aft helium parted ways with the undivided Shiv Sena.
Although the confederation includes the NCP (SP), nary elder person from the enactment was connected the dias for the launch.
The confederation has targeted women voters, promising "Swabhiman Nidhi", a monthly allowance of ₹1,500 for househelps and women from the Koli community, connected the lines of the Mahayuti government's Mukhyamantri Ladki Bahin Yojana, which provides a akin magnitude to eligible women betwixt 21 and 65 years.
The parties person besides promised bully restrooms for women connected large roads successful Mumbai.
The manifesto besides mentions a repast scheme, akin to the Shiv Bhojan Thali, nether which meal and luncheon would beryllium provided for ₹10.
Mumbai's onshore volition lone beryllium utilized to location Mumbaikars, the manifesto states, promising affordable lodging for employees of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), government, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) and mill workers.
The BMC volition person its ain lodging authority, and 1 lakh affordable houses volition beryllium built successful the adjacent 5 years, it stated.
The parties person besides promised 100 units of escaped powerfulness for residential usage done the BEST Undertaking, and efforts volition beryllium taken to widen this to the eastbound and occidental suburbs.
The BEST is presently cash-strapped. There was nary clarity whether the escaped units volition beryllium fixed to residents successful the land metropolis wherever the undertaking provides its energy services oregon to the full city.
The manifesto has besides announced fiscal assistance ranging from ₹25,000 to ₹1 lakh for younker for self-employment, on with an interest-free indebtedness of ₹25,000 for gig workers.
The confederation has promised to waive spot taxation connected houses of up to 700 sq. ft. and stated that rules volition besides beryllium changed to guarantee each level gets 1 parking slot successful redeveloped buildings.
The confederation has besides promised to bring down the minimum autobus fare to ₹5 from the existent ₹10 and present caller buses and routes.
The manifesto stated that to boost the wellness infrastructure, 5 caller aesculapian colleges volition beryllium established successful civic-run hospitals, and immoderate determination to privatise these facilities volition beryllium thwarted.
A super-speciality crab infirmary volition beryllium established successful the city, and a accelerated motorcycle aesculapian assistance volition besides beryllium launched, it said.
In the acquisition sector, 'Mumbai Public Schools' tally by the BMC volition person classes from inferior kindergarten to Class 12, and creches volition beryllium established successful each assembly conception to supply attraction for children of moving parents, the manifesto said.
The confederation has besides listed favored parks, clinics, ambulances, and crematoriums arsenic immoderate of the initiatives for the city.
