Corporators, social workers and the NMMC mayor and vice-mayor were at the hospital. The funeral will be held at 8.30 am on Monday at Chinchpada.More was a first-time corporator from Ward Number 9 in the 1,300 strong slum on the industrial belt on Thane-Belapur road. She wasknown to be a `clean' corporator with a fiery temper in NMMC circles. She had opposed the installation of a water tap near the house of the accused Yogendra Pandey of the Congress on the grounds that a drain ran next to the pipeline.

On December 14, the night before the tap was to be inaugurated, More had an argument with Pandey who, along with Rakesh Tiwari, Bapi Bhattacharya and Kasim poured kerosene on her and set her afire. The accused are presently being interrogated by the Rabale police.

Describing More as a friendly corporator, Jaywant Sutar, corporator of the Nagri Vikas Aghadi, said she had done a great deal of work for her ward. ``She used to treat everyone respectfully. As she was from the slums herself, she understood everyone's problems well,'' he added.

NMMC mayor Vijaya Mhatre said Meena had built gutters, roads and ensured other civic facilities for her ward. On the controversial water tap, the cause of More's death, Mhatre said she would hold a meeting along with the commissioner on theissue. Aghadi workers who assembled at the hospital on hearing the news of her demise were wary of disclosing their future plans. ``We haven't decided on any protest. We don't want to provoke the public,'' one of them said. Sutar added that they would wait for their leader Ganesh Naik's decision on the issue.