Parents and residents say children walking to Kendriya Vidyalaya and St Xavier’s High School face broken footpaths, exposed iron rods and dark stretches due to Metro construction

Despite winning 118 seats in the civic body, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is likely to head only eight of Mumbai’s 18 ward committees; ward committees, which function as ward-level equivalents of the standing committee, enable closer engagement with local communities