Suchitra Naik

Naik started her political career in 1990 post which she contested and got elected in corporation elections from Dindoshi vidhan sabha assembly, Malad (East) in the year 2002. During her tenure, she worked hard to provide basic amenities to the slum living population of Mumbai like sewerage line, fought for reconstruction of old lake, pedestrian skywalks^[1][2] for people to cross major accidental spot on Western Express Highway.^[3] In addition to that she fought to protect open government lands like cemetery reserved land, garden reserved land, playground, plots,^[4] bad state of roads^[5] and recreational reserved land from getting encroached in Kurar village slums.^[4]

Naik was born on 3 April 1955 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India in a middle class Hindu Maratha Maharashtrian family. She did her schooling in Mumbai and later graduated from Mumbai University.