Kolkata Municipal Corporation - Wikipedia Kolkata Municipal Corporation This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2012 ) Kolkata Municipal Corporation Logo of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Abbreviation KMC Motto Purosree Bibardhan ( পুরশ্রী বিবর্ধন ) Formation 1876 Type Municipal Headquarters Kolkata Official language Bengali, English Mayor Sovan Chatterjee Staff 37,829 ( as on 31 March 2003 ) Website Kolkatamycity.com Map showing KMC limits Kolkata Municipal Corporation or KMC ( formerly Calcutta Municipal Corporation or CMC ) is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Kolkata. This civic administrative body administers an area of 200.71 km. Its motto, Purosree Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali script. KMC is headed by Sovan Chatterjee the present Mayor of Kolkata. Contents 1 Structure 2 Criticism 3 The Sheriff of Kolkata and The KMDA 4 Area of Jurisdiction 5 Services 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Structure The KMC was established in 1876. 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 annually. Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das was the first Mayor of KMC with Niyaz Ahamed as his Chief Executive Officer. Later mayors include Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, and for the 2010 - 2015 term, Sovan Chatterjee. The city is divided into 144 administrative wards that are grouped into 15 boroughs. 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. 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. At present, the All India Trinamool Congress holds the power in the KMC. 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. The Sheriff of Kolkata and the KMDA The city also has an apolitical titular post, that of the Sheriff of Kolkata. 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 ). The KMA includes a large suburban hinterland around the urban centres of Kolkata. Area of jurisdiction The jurisdiction of the KMC covers the area covered by the Kolkata Police ( which in turn includes the area of Kolkata District ), but includes an adjacent area as well. See Civic Administration of Kolkata. According to KMC website, erstwhile Joka - I & Joka - II Gram Panchayats were added to municipal limits, although information on their distribution into wards was not available. This addition increases the area of KMC to 200.71 square kilometres ( 77.49 sq mi ). In 2011, it was announced that Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will be coterminous. Kolkata Postal District however extends right up to Barrackpur in the North, Barasat in the East, up to Baruipur in South - East and Joka in South and up to Batanagar in South - West. The Postal code in this entire area starts with 700, indicating Postal Sorting District of Kolkata. Thus Kolkata Postal area is much bigger than the area of KMC, Kolkata Police or Kolkata District. In general term, people identify a locality with its Postal address. Postal address of people residing in the delivery jurisdiction of any of the 160 Delivery Post offices of Kolkata will be having PIN Code no. from 700001 ( Kolkata - 1 ) to 700160 ( Kolkata - 160 ). So for all practical purpose, anyone residing in Kolkata Postal area, identify himself / herself as Calcuttan. Services Kolkata Municipal Corporation Headquarters 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 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. See also References Jump up ^ `` Kolkata - A Municipal History ''. KMC. Retrieved 8 May 2015. Jump up ^ `` Mayors of Kolkata ''. KMC. Retrieved 8 May 2015. Jump up ^ `` Kolkata Statistics ''. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 1 September 2007. Jump up ^ `` 007 Kolkata ( India ) '' ( PDF ). World Association of the Major Metropolises. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015. Jump up ^ `` About Kolkata Municipal Corporation ''. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 26 April 2006. Jump up ^ `` New sheriff of Kolkata ''. The Telegraph. 28 December 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2007. Jump up ^ `` About Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority ''. Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Retrieved 1 September 2007. ^ Jump up to : `` Incorporation of erstwhile Joka - I & Joka - II Gram Panchayats under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Municipal Corporation ''. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 3 April 2013. Jump up ^ `` City police chief visits added areas ''. The Times of India. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2013. Jump up ^ Bandyopadhyay, Krishnendu ( 30 August 2011 ). `` People will see the change : Kolkata police chief ''. The Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2013. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Official site of KMC Kolkata Municipal Corporation Wards Burough I 5 6 7 8 9 Burough II 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 Burough No. III 13 14 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Burough No. IV 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 38 39 Burough No. V 36 37 40 41 42 43 44 45 48 49 50 Burough No. VI 46 47 51 52 53 54 55 60 61 62 Burough No. VII 56 57 58 59 63 64 65 66 67 Burough No. VIII 68 69 70 71 72 73 83 85 86 87 90 Burough No. IX 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 82 84 88 Burough No. X 81 89 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Burough No. XI 101 102 110 111 112 113 114 Burough No. XII 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 Burough No. XIII 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 Burough No. XIV 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 Burough No. XV 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 Related topics Kolkata Municipal Corporation Civic Administration of Kolkata See also Mayors of Kolkata Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kolkata_Municipal_Corporation&oldid=803800141 '' Categories : Organisations based in Kolkata Kolkata Municipal Corporation Buildings and structures in Kolkata Municipal corporations in India Municipal corporations in West Bengal Hidden categories : Use Indian English from October 2016 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from October 2016 Articles needing additional references from June 2012 All articles needing additional references All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2010 Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা Català हिन्दी नेपाल भाषा 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 4 October 2017, at 18 : 31. 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Question: who presides over the meeting of municipal corporation
Answer: Sovan Chatterjee