BMC Elections: The MahaYuti syndication released its manifesto on Sunday for the upcoming BMC elections in Mumbai, promising technology-based governance. The manifesto includes promises of a 50 percent fare reduction for women on BEST buses and freeing the municipality from Bangladeshi migrants with the help of AI.
What did Maharashtra CM Fadnavis say while releasing the manifesto?
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who released the document, said the BJP-Shiv Sena-RPI(A) syndication would integrate Japanese technology with local wardship to tackle long-standing societal problems and unhook services to citizens' mobile phones.
"The municipality has witnessed 25 years of inefficiency in societal governance, and now I want to tell the people to requite us a endangerment to bring transparency to societal administration," Fadnavis said.
"Our goal is a corruption-free municipal corporation," he added, outlining an AI-powered platform to bring municipal initiatives and towers approvals to your mobile phones and ensure transparency in the real manor sector.
What does the MahaYuti manifesto promise?
The manifesto emphasizes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce corruption, expedite clearances, and modernize service delivery. Fadnavis moreover promised AI labs in all municipal schools to equip students with future-ready skills. Transportation and women's safety featured prominently in the manifesto. Fadnavis said the syndication aims to increase the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) squadron from approximately 5,000 to 10,000 buses, switch to electric vehicles, and provide a 50 percent fare reduction for women commuters.
He said new midi and mini services would modernize last-mile connectivity virtually metro and railway stations. "We will self-ruling Mumbai from Bangladeshis and Rohingyas," Fadnavis added. With the help of IIT, we will develop an AI tool to identify Bangladeshi migrants," he said. He widow that 17,000 crore has been pledged for a climate whoopee plan, under which a circular economy will be created.
Speaking well-nigh the Dharavi redevelopment project, Fadnavis said that an ecosystem will be created to ensure the upgradation of small businesses in the area, and plane ineligible residents will be included. The manifesto moreover mentions a flood-free Mumbai plan, promising that the municipality will be made self-ruling of waterlogging within five years through measures unexplored by using Japanese technologies and collaborating with institutions like IIT and VJTI. Fadnavis said that a research group from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will study the city's topography, and the plan includes towers four new underground floodwater tanks and repairing existing drainage lines.
