The reservation procedure for the 85 wards of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) was held here on Wednesday at the auditorium of Gandhi Medical College. After the fresh reservation, the face of whole wards has changed completely now.
Notably, the reservation procedure was last time done on October 7, but due to the intervention of the High Court that reservation was cancelled.The reservation process was started with the reservation of 12 Scheduled Caste (SC) and two Scheduled Tribe (ST) wards. Reservation was done on the basis of population. This was followed by reservation for 21 Other Backward Class (OBC) wards and thereafter women wards of the SC, ST and OBC and in the last reservation for the general women wards was carried out.
The 12 wards reserved for SC include ward number 10, 11, 28, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 59, 63, 76 and 81. In this category the wards reserved for women are 11, 47, 48, 50, 59 and 63.The two wards reserved for ST are ward number 26 and 60. Ward 60 has been reserved for ST women.The 21 wards reserved for4 OBC are 2, 7, 12, 14, 17, 19, 22, 24, 32, 34, 38, 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 54, 64, 69, 70 and 78. Of them the wards reserved for women are 12, 22, 24, 34, 41, 42, 44, 54, 69, 70 and 78.
The wards that remain unreserved after the reservation process are 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71 to 75, 77, 79, 80, 82 to 85. Of these the wards that have been reserved for women are 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 18, 25, 29, 30, 36, 39, 40, 55, 57, 58, 62, 66, 72, 73, 77 and 83.