The Government of Maharashtra on March 18, 2024, notified the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2024 further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act 1949.
The following has been stated: -
•In section 5 sub-section (3), for the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely: -
“Provided that, after the commencement of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2024 in respect of general elections to the Corporations, each of the wards shall elect as far as possible four Councillors, but not less than three and not more than five Councillors and each voter shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, be entitled to cast the same number of votes, as the number of Councillors to be elected in his ward.”
[Notification No. RNI No. MAHENG/2009/35528]
