employees bonuses promotions decisions on flood line and cemetery for muslim citizens were all done during my tenure but there was a huge controversy about the cemetery at cidco and the muslim citizens were not very happy with it providing a proper cemetery was the responsibility of the cidco administration but they were not ready to do it so we had to pitch in after discussing with the guardian minister of the city chhagan bhujbal we unanimously decided to provide them the land for the cemetery are you satisfied with what you have done as a mayor it is not possible for anyone to give 100 per cent i have done 9095 projects from the heart when i was elected to the post of mayor i had made a resolution to do some outstanding work for the city so that the coming generations will remember them all the political parties have cooperated with me very well whenever there were differences of opinion we sorted them out through meetings i have never gone against the policies of the party if i have then it was only for the benefit of the city what are the decisions that you would remember and so would the next generation i have not burdened the citizens with taxes the most memorable decision is sanctioning 3 fund for the blind and handicapped the renovation of bytco hospital and introducing selfhelp groups for empowering women are some of the other decisions during my tenure i have also conducted public awareness campaign about female foeticide if there are any pending projects we promise to complete them in the near future because i am confident that people will vote for our party again you are looked upon as someone from a political background do you get any help from your family in managing the affairs of the corporation yes it is an advantage i was a novice a housewife who got elected for the first time and was chosen as the mayor since childhood i have been a spectator watching my father in politics but did not have any experience of my own i did not even know about public speaking when i got elected my father and other seniors from the party guided me in this what has been your experience while conducting meetings particularly when most meetings had some sort of a ruckus by the corporators i never faced any party rivalries while conducting the business of the corporation in my tenure i approved all the proposals without keeping time limitations i let everybody speak in the house even those who never spoke before began speaking at the meetings everything in the house proceeded in a very cordial spirit you have been accused of windingup issues without discussions what has been the reason we have adjourned some meetings only in case of some important persons demise or of a close relative of a corporator sometimes we also received letters from the corporators to conduct the meetings even