Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde on Friday distributed Rs 206.5 crore amongst the BMC’s elected corporators. This fund represents an additional corpus distributed by the Mayor for carrying out civic works at the municipal wards and the discretion of distributing these funds lies solely with the Mayor. Usually each corporator receives an annual development fund of Rs 1.6 crore. In addition to this, the civic standing committee makes financial allocations. For the current financial year, the standing committee allocated Rs 2.5 crore and Rs 3 crore to corporators hailing from the ruling alliance, while a blanket allocation of Rs 25 lakh have been made for those hailing from the opposition parties. However, a closer look into the records show that Friday’s funds were allocated disproportionately amongst the corporator members. “The mayor has the power to decide who gets how much of the allocated funds. The specified corpus falls under the Mayor’s fund.…