Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. This civic administrative body administers an area of 206.08 square kilometres (79.57 sq mi).^[2] Its motto, Puroshri Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali script. It is headed by a mayor, who presides over 144 councillors, each of whom represents one of the 144 wards of the city.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation কলকাতা পৌরসংস্থা
Emblem of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	1876; 149 years ago (1876)
Leadership
Mayor	Firhad Hakim, AITC since 28 December 2021
Deputy Mayor	Atin Ghosh, AITC since 28 December 2021
Chairperson	Mala Roy, AITC since 8 May 2015
Structure
Seats	144
Political groups	Government (137)   AITC (134)   IND (3)[1] Opposition (7)   BJP (3)   INC (2)   CPI(M) (1)   CPI (1)
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	19 December 2021
Next election	December 2026
Motto
পুরশ্রী বিবর্ধন Perennial progress of the City's prosperity
Meeting place
Headquarters of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Website
www.kmcgov.in

History

Under the guidance of the first Minister of Local Self-Government in Bengal, Sir Surendranath Banerjee, the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 made provision for the enfranchisement of women and the election of a Mayor of Kolkata annually. Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das was the first Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation with Subhas Chandra Bose as his Chief Executive Officer.^[3] Later mayors include Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, Triguna Sen, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya.^[4]

Ward wise KMC population density

Structure

Kolkata Municipal Corporation ward level map as of 2011 Census. Three additional wards have been added since then, taking the total to 144.

The city is divided into 144 administrative wards^[5] that are grouped into 16 boroughs.^[6] Each of these wards elects a councillor to the KMC. Each borough has a committee consisting of the councillors elected from the respective wards of the boroughs. The Corporation, through the borough committees, maintains government-aided schools, hospitals and municipal markets and partakes in urban planning and road maintenance.^[7] The corporation as the apex body discharges its function through the Mayor-in-Council, consisting of a mayor, assisted by a deputy mayor, and ten other elected members of the KMC. The mayor is responsible for the overall functioning of the KMC and has a tenure of five years.^[8] At present, the All India Trinamool Congress holds the power in the KMC.

Borough	Wards
I	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
II	10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
III	13, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
IV	21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 38, 39
V	36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50
VI	46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62
VII	56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
VIII	68, 69, 70, 72, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90
IX	71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82
X	81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
XI	103, 104, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
XII	101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109
XIII	115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122
XIV	121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
XV	133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141
XVI	123, 124, 125, 126, 142, 143, 144

Current members

Kolkata Municipal Corporation has a total of 144 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 19 December 2021. The current mayor of Kolkata is Firhad Hakim of the Trinamool Congress. The current deputy mayor is Atin Ghosh of the Trinamool Congress.

Mayor: Firhad Hakim
Deputy Mayor: Atin Ghosh
Ward No.	Name of Councillor	Party		Remarks
Ward No. 1	Kartick Chandra Manna		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 2	Kakali Sen
Ward No. 3	Debika Chakraborty
Ward No. 4	Goutam Haldar
Ward No. 5	Tarun Saha
Ward No. 6	Suman Singh
Ward No. 7	Bapi Ghosh
Ward No. 8	Pooja Panja
Ward No. 9	Mitali Saha
Ward No. 10	Subrata Banerjee
Ward No. 11	Atin Ghosh
Ward No. 12	Minakshi Gangopadhyay
Ward No. 13	Anindya Kishore Routh
Ward No. 14	Amal Chakraborty
Ward No. 15	Sukhla Bhore
Ward No. 16	Swapan Kumar Das
Ward No. 17	Mohan Kumar Gupta
Ward No. 18	Sunanda Sarkar
Ward No. 19	Shikha Saha
Ward No. 20	Vijay Upadhyay
Ward No. 21	Mira Hazra
Ward No. 22	Meena Devi Purohit		Bharatiya Janata Party
Ward No. 23	Vijay Ojha
Ward No. 24	Ellora Saha		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 25	Rajesh Kumar Sinha
Ward No. 26	Tarak Nath Chattopadhyay
Ward No. 27	Minakshi Gupta
Ward No. 28	Ayan Chakraborty
Ward No. 29	Iqbal Ahmed
Ward No. 30	Papiya Ghosh Biswas
Ward No. 31	Paresh Paul
Ward No. 32	Santi Ranjan Kundu
Ward No. 33	Chinu Biswas
Ward No. 34	Alokananda Das
Ward No. 35	Ashutosh Das
Ward No. 36	Sachin Kumar Singh
Ward No. 37	Soma Chaudhuri
Ward No. 38	Sadhana Bose
Ward No. 39	Mohammad Jasimuddin
Ward No. 40	Suparna Dutta
Ward No. 41	Reita Chowdhury
Ward No. 42	Mahesh Kumar Sharma
Ward No. 43	Ayesha Kaniz		Independent
Ward No. 44	Rehana Khatoon		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 45	Santosh Kumar Pathak		Indian National Congress
Ward No. 46	Priyanka Saha		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 47	Bimal Singh
Ward No. 48	Biswarup Dey
Ward No. 49	Monalisa Banerjee
Ward No. 50	Sajal Ghosh		Bharatiya Janata Party
Ward No. 51	Indranil Kumar		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 52	Sohini Mukherjee
Ward No. 53	Indrani Saha Banerjee
Ward No. 54	Amiruddin
Ward No. 55	Sabita Rani Das
Ward No. 56	Swapan Samaddar
Ward No. 57	Jiban Saha
Ward No. 58	Sandipan Saha
Ward No. 59	Jolly Bose
Ward No. 60	Kaiser Jamil
Ward No. 61	Manzar Iqbal
Ward No. 62	Sana Ahmed
Ward No. 63	Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee
Ward No. 64	Sammi Jahan Begum
Ward No. 65	Nibedita Sharma
Ward No. 66	Ahmed Faiz Khan
Ward No. 67	Bijan Lal Mukherjee
Ward No. 68	Sudarshana Mukherjee
Ward No. 69	Dilip Bose
Ward No. 70	Ashim Kumar Bose
Ward No. 71	Papiya Singh
Ward No. 72	Sandip Ranjan Bakshi
Ward No. 73	Kajari Banerjee
Ward No. 74	Debalina Biswas
Ward No. 75	Nizamuddin Shams
Ward No. 76	Shashti Das
Ward No. 77	Shamima Rehan Khan
Ward No. 78	Soma Das
Ward No. 79	Ram Pyare Ram
Ward No. 80	Mohammad Anwar Khan
Ward No. 81	Jui Biswas
Ward No. 82	Firhad Hakim
Ward No. 83	Probir Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Ward No. 84	Paromita Chatterjee
Ward No. 85	Debasish Kumar
Ward No. 86	Saurav Basu
Ward No. 87	Manisha Bose
Ward No. 88	Mala Roy
Ward No. 89	Mamata Majumdar
Ward No. 90	Chaitali Chattopadhyay
Ward No. 91	Baiswanor Chatterjee
Ward No. 92	Madhuchhanda Deb		Communist Party of India
Ward No. 93	Mousumi Das		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 94	Sandip Nandi Majumdar
Ward No. 95	Tapan Dasgupta
Ward No. 96	Vasundhara Goswami
Ward No. 97	Debabrata Majumdar
Ward No. 98	Arup Chakraborty
Ward No. 99	Mitali Banerjee
Ward No. 100	Prosenjit Das
Ward No. 101	Bappaditya Dasgupta
Ward No. 102	Sima Ghosh
Ward No. 103	Nandita Roy		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Ward No. 104	Tarakeswar Chakraborty		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 105	Sushila Mondal
Ward No. 106	Arijit Das Thakur
Ward No. 107	Lipika Manna
Ward No. 108	Sushanta Kumar Ghosh
Ward No. 109	Ananya Banerjee
Ward No. 110	Swaraj Kumar Mondal
Ward No. 111	Sandip Das
Ward No. 112	Gopal Roy
Ward No. 113	Anita Kar Majumdar Sil
Ward No. 114	Biswajit Mandal
Ward No. 115	Ratna Sur
Ward No. 116	Krishna Singh
Ward No. 117	Amit Singh
Ward No. 118	Tarak Singh
Ward No. 119	Kakali Bag
Ward No. 120	Susanta Ghosh
Ward No. 121	Rupak Ganguly
Ward No. 122	Soma Chakraborty
Ward No. 123	Sudip Polley
Ward No. 124	Rajib Kumar Das
Ward No. 125	Chhanda Sarkar
Ward No. 126	Ghanasree Bagh
Ward No. 127	Malobika Baidya
Ward No. 128	Partha Sarkar
Ward No. 129	Sanhita Das
Ward No. 130	Avijit Mukherjee
Ward No. 131	Ratna Chatterjee
Ward No. 132	Sanchita Mitra
Ward No. 133	Ranajit Shil
Ward No. 134	Shams Iqbal
Ward No. 135	Rubina Naaz		Independent
Ward No. 136	Shamsuzzaman Ansari		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 137	Wasim Ansari		Indian National Congress
Ward No. 138	Farida Parvin		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 139	Sheikh Mushtaque Ahamed
Ward No. 140	Abu Mohammed Tariq
Ward No. 141	Purbasa Naskar		Independent
Ward No. 142	Raghunath Patra		Trinamool Congress
Ward No. 143	Christina Biswas
Ward No. 144	Shefali Pramanik

Budget

As of 2024-25, the city government's budget is ₹5,166.79 crore (US$600 million), out of which ₹320 crore (US$37 million) was earmarked for roads and transport infrastructure, ₹692.14 crore (US$80 million) is to be spent on solid waste management, ₹408 crore (US$47 million) on water supply and ₹163 crore (US$19 million) on health services.^[9]

Criticism

Recently the KMC has faced a lot of criticism for legalising unauthorized construction largely responsible for a number of deaths because of fire. This was also responsible of the unplanned growth in the city.^{[citation needed]}

The Sheriff of Kolkata and The KMDA

The city also has an apolitical titular post, that of the Sheriff of Kolkata.^[10] The Sheriff presides over various city-related functions and conferences. Another ancillary civic body is the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) responsible for the statutory planning and development of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA).^[11] The KMA includes a large suburban hinterland around the urban centre of Kolkata.

Area of jurisdiction

See also: Civic Administration of Kolkata

The jurisdiction of the KMC covers the area covered by the Kolkata Police (which in turn includes the area of Kolkata District / KMC)

Kolkata Police Stations Map

In 2011, it was announced that Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will be coterminous.^[12][13]

Kolkata Postal District however extends right up to Barrackpur in the North, Barasat in the North-East, Rajarhat in the East, up to Baruipur in South-East and Pailan in South and up to Pujali in South-West. The Postal code in this entire area starts with 700, indicating Postal Sorting Division of Kolkata. Thus Kolkata Postal Division is much bigger than the area of KMC (Kolkata District) and Kolkata Police.

Services

The KMC is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.

• Water purification and supply
• Sewage treatment and disposal
• Garbage disposal and street cleanliness
• Food Inspection:Through KMC Food Inspectors
• Solid waste management
• Building and maintenance of roads, streets and flyovers.
• Street lighting
• Maintenance of parks and open spaces
• Cemeteries and Crematoriums
• Registering of births and deaths
• Conservation of heritage sites
• Disease control, including immunisation
• Public municipal schools etc.

Control Room of Kolkata Municipal Corporation can be contacted at [phone].

Department

Sl.No.	Department[14]
1	Advertisement
2	Amusement
3	Assessment & Collection
4	Building
5	Bustee Services
6	Car Parking
7	Central Records
8	Ch. VS Department
9	Education
10	Election Office
11	Electricity
12	Engineering (Civil)
13	Entally workshop
14	Estate
15	Finance and accounts
16	Health
17	Info. & public relations
18	Information Technology
19	Institute of Urban Management
20	Internal Audit
21	Law
22	License
23	Lighting
24	Market
25	Municipal Secretary’s department
26	Municipal Service Commission
27	Parks & Squares
28	Personnel
29	Planning & Development
30	Printing
31	Environment & Heritage Department
32	Roads and Asphaltum
33	Sewerage & Drainage
34	Social Welfare & Urban Poverty Alleviation Department
35	Solid Waste Management
36	Supply
37	City Planning Dept
38	Treasury Department
39	Vigilance
40	Water Supply

References

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2. "kmcgov.in". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
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4. "Mayors of Kolkata". KMC. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
5. "KMC polls on Dec 19 to be litmus test for TMC, BJP on urban base since assembly elections". The Economic Times. 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
6. "Kolkata Statistics". Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
7. "007 Kolkata (India)" (PDF). World Association of the Major Metropolises. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
8. "About Kolkata Municipal Corporation". Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Archived from the original on 15 May 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2006.
9. "KMC presents deficit budget of Rs 170.66 cr". 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
10. "New sheriff of Kolkata". The Telegraph. 28 December 2005. Archived from the original on 25 August 2006. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
11. "About Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority". Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
12. "City police chief visits added areas". The Times of India. 13 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
13. Bandyopadhyay, Krishnendu (30 August 2011). "People will see the change: Kolkata police chief". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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External links

• Official website