# 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). 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.

## 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. 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.

## Structure

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

## Budget

As of 2024-25, the city government's budget is ₹5,166.79 crore (US$590 million), out of which ₹320 crore (US$37 million) was earmarked for roads and transport infrastructure, ₹692.14 crore (US$79 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.

## 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 centre 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 / KMC)
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 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 (033) 2286-1212.

## Department

| Sl.No. | Department |
| 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 |