File photo of an area in P-North
MUMBAI: The most populous ward in the city, P-North, will be split into two, said the state urban development department on Thursday. No time-frame was specified for the division of ward, which has 9.7 lakh people living in Malad and the parts of Goregaon and Kandivli that constitute the municipal administrative ward, reports Vijay V Singh.
The division will not affect the boundaries of the 18 municipal electoral wards in P-North. The railway tracks will be the dividing line for the proposed P-East and P-West wards.
The government mentioned the division in reply to Kandivli MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar of the BJP, who had raised the question with the urban development department. A portion of his assembly constituency falls in P-North.