Taking up cudgels on their behalf, Sunil Ahir, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator, is pushing for the mention of caste on birth certificates that are issued by the corporation.u00a0

Ahir, who belongs to the NT category himself, has placed a proposal before the city’s mayor requesting that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) incorporate caste as well as religion along with the relevant category of reservation for new birth certificates.u00a0He has also requested that the same be mentioned in death certificates.u00a0