Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar is the former Mayor of

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

and an advocate. She was elected as the mayor in year 1994. Part of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

party, Prabhavalkar is the second female mayor of the metropolitan. She was also the chief functionary of Centre for Study of Social Change (CSSC) and part of National Commission for Women. Nirmala was part of the 10 member committee formed by Women and Child Department of Maharashtra that aimed to reduce child marriages in the state.

Awards

* Sahyadri Hirkari Award, 2014

References

Mayors of Mumbai Women in Maharashtra politics Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra {{Maharashtra-INC-politician-stub