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Kolkata Municipal Corporation

{{Short description|Local civic body in Kolkata, West Bengal, India}}

{{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}

{{Infobox legislature

| name = Kolkata Municipal Corporation

|native_name = কলকাতা পৌরসংস্থা

| coa_pic = Kolkata Municipal Corporation (emblem).png

| coa_res = 200px

| coa_alt = Emblem of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation

| coa_caption = Emblem of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation

| term_limits = 5 years

| new_session =

| house_type = Municipal Corporation

| foundation = {{start date and age|1876}}

| disbanded =

| preceded_by =

| succeeded_by =

| leader1_type = Mayor

| leader1 = Firhad Hakim

| party1 = AITC

| election1 = 28 December 2021

| leader2_type = Deputy Mayor

| leader2 = Atin Ghosh

| party2 = AITC

| election2 = 28 December 2021

| leader3_type = Chairperson

| leader3 = Mala Roy

| party3 = AITC

| election3 = 8 May 2015

| seats = 144

| structure1 = India Kolkata, WB Municipal Corporation 2021.svg

| structure1_res = 300px

| political_groups1 =

Government (137)

:*{{legend|#20C646|AITC (134)}}

:*{{legend|#B2B2B2|IND (3){{cite web | url=https://tv9bangla.com/elections/kmc-election-result-2021-3-independent-candidate-who-won-want-to-join-tmc-479468.html | title=KMC Election Result 2021: জয়ী হয়েই তৃণমূলের পথে তিন নির্দল প্রার্থী, 'সবুজ-সঙ্কেত' ছিল আগেই? | date=21 December 2021 | access-date=18 May 2022 | archive-date=5 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005093220/https://tv9bangla.com/elections/kmc-election-result-2021-3-independent-candidate-who-won-want-to-join-tmc-479468.html | url-status=live }}}}

Opposition (7)

:*{{legend|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}|BJP (3)}}

:*{{legend|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}|INC (2)}}

:*{{legend|{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}|CPI(M) (1)}}

:*{{legend|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}|CPI (1)}}

| session_room = Calcutta corporation building, esplanade, kolkata, west bengal, india (5375736977).jpg

| session_res = 250px

| meeting_place = Headquarters of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation

| voting_system1 = First past the post

| last_election1 = 19 December 2021

| next_election1 = December 2026

| motto = পুরশ্রী বিবর্ধন
Perennial progress of the City's prosperity

| website = {{official URL}}

| footnotes =

}}

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 {{convert|206.08|km2}}.{{cite news|title=kmcgov.in|url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KolkataStatistics.jsp|access-date=10 June 2019|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402172553/https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KolkataStatistics.jsp|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web |title=Kolkata – A Municipal History |url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MunicipalHistoryHome.jsp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501103053/https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MunicipalHistoryHome.jsp |archive-date=1 May 2012 |access-date=8 May 2015 |publisher=KMC}} 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.{{cite web |title=Mayors of Kolkata |url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MayorsKolkata.jsp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113918/https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MayorsKolkata.jsp |archive-date=2 April 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015 |publisher=KMC}}File:2011 Kolkata population density by Wards (en).svg

Structure

File:Kolkata Municipal Corporation ward level map as of 2011 Census.png

The city is divided into 144 administrative wards{{cite news |title=KMC polls on Dec 19 to be litmus test for TMC, BJP on urban base since assembly elections |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kmc-polls-on-dec-19-to-be-litmus-test-for-tmc-bjp-on-urban-base-since-assembly-elections/articleshow/87907936.cms |access-date=8 December 2021 |publisher=The Economic Times |date=25 November 2021 |archive-date=8 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208040347/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kmc-polls-on-dec-19-to-be-litmus-test-for-tmc-bjp-on-urban-base-since-assembly-elections/articleshow/87907936.cms |url-status=live }} that are grouped into 16 boroughs.{{cite web|publisher=Kolkata Municipal Corporation|url=http://www.kolkatamycity.com/stat.asp|title=Kolkata Statistics|access-date=1 September 2007|archive-date=14 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814002710/http://www.kolkatamycity.com/stat.asp|url-status=live}} 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.

name=Metropolis>{{cite web|publisher=World Association of the Major Metropolises |url=http://www.metropolis.org/sites/default/files/metropolitan_regions/438_007_kolkata_eng.pdf | title=007 Kolkata (India) | access-date=16 June 2015 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140222030639/http://www.metropolis.org/sites/default/files/metropolitan_regions/438_007_kolkata_eng.pdf|archive-date=22 February 2014 }} 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.{{cite web | publisher=Kolkata Municipal Corporation | url=http://www.kolkatamycity.com/about_kmc_overview.asp | title=About Kolkata Municipal Corporation | access-date=26 April 2006 | archive-date=15 May 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515160951/http://www.kolkatamycity.com/about_kmc_overview.asp | url-status=live }} At present, the All India Trinamool Congress holds the power in the KMC.

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! Borough !! Wards

I1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
II10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
III13, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
IV21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 38, 39
V36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50
VI46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62
VII56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
VIII68, 69, 70, 72, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90
IX71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82
X81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
XI103, 104, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
XII101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109
XIII115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122
XIV121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
XV133, 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.

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style="background-color:#04FF21; color:black" coLspan=5|Mayor: Firhad Hakim
style="background-color:#04FF21; color:black" colspan=5|Deputy Mayor: Atin Ghosh
Ward No.

! Name of Councillor

! colspan="2" | Party

! Remarks

Ward No. 1Kartick Chandra Manna{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=21}}

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Ward No. 2Kakali Sen

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Ward No. 3Debika Chakraborty

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Ward No. 4Goutam Haldar

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Ward No. 5Tarun Saha

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Ward No. 6Suman Singh

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Ward No. 7Bapi Ghosh

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Ward No. 8Pooja Panja

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Ward No. 9Mitali Saha

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Ward No. 10Subrata Banerjee

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Ward No. 11Atin Ghosh

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Ward No. 12Minakshi Gangopadhyay

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Ward No. 13Anindya Kishore Routh

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Ward No. 14Amal Chakraborty

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Ward No. 15Sukhla Bhore

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Ward No. 16Swapan Kumar Das

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Ward No. 17Mohan Kumar Gupta

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Ward No. 18Sunanda Sarkar

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Ward No. 19Shikha Saha

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Ward No. 20Vijay Upadhyay

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Ward No. 21Mira Hazra

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Ward No. 22Meena Devi Purohit{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

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Ward No. 23Vijay Ojha

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Ward No. 24Ellora Saha{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=19}}

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Ward No. 25Rajesh Kumar Sinha

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Ward No. 26Tarak Nath Chattopadhyay

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Ward No. 27Minakshi Gupta

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Ward No. 28Ayan Chakraborty

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Ward No. 29Iqbal Ahmed

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Ward No. 30Papiya Ghosh Biswas

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Ward No. 31Paresh Paul

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Ward No. 32Santi Ranjan Kundu

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Ward No. 33Chinu Biswas

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Ward No. 34Alokananda Das

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Ward No. 35Ashutosh Das

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Ward No. 36Sachin Kumar Singh

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Ward No. 37Soma Chaudhuri

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Ward No. 38Sadhana Bose

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Ward No. 39Mohammad Jasimuddin

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Ward No. 40Suparna Dutta

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Ward No. 41Reita Chowdhury

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Ward No. 42Mahesh Kumar Sharma

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Ward No. 43Ayesha Kaniz{{Party name with color|Independent}}

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Ward No. 44Rehana Khatoon{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}

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Ward No. 45Santosh Kumar Pathak{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

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Ward No. 46Priyanka Saha{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=4}}

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Ward No. 47Bimal Singh

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Ward No. 48Biswarup Dey

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Ward No. 49Monalisa Banerjee

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Ward No. 50Sajal Ghosh{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

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Ward No. 51Indranil Kumar{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=41}}

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Ward No. 52Sohini Mukherjee

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Ward No. 53Indrani Saha Banerjee

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Ward No. 54Amiruddin

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Ward No. 55Sabita Rani Das

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Ward No. 56Swapan Samaddar

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Ward No. 57Jiban Saha

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Ward No. 58Sandipan Saha

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Ward No. 59Jolly Bose

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Ward No. 60Kaiser Jamil

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Ward No. 61Manzar Iqbal

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Ward No. 62Sana Ahmed

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Ward No. 63Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee

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Ward No. 64Sammi Jahan Begum

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Ward No. 65Nibedita Sharma

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Ward No. 66Ahmed Faiz Khan

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Ward No. 67Bijan Lal Mukherjee

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Ward No. 68Sudarshana Mukherjee

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Ward No. 69Dilip Bose

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Ward No. 70Ashim Kumar Bose

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Ward No. 71Papiya Singh

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Ward No. 72Sandip Ranjan Bakshi

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Ward No. 73Kajari Banerjee

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Ward No. 74Debalina Biswas

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Ward No. 75Nizamuddin Shams

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Ward No. 76Shashti Das

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Ward No. 77Shamima Rehan Khan

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Ward No. 78Soma Das

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Ward No. 79Ram Pyare Ram

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Ward No. 80Mohammad Anwar Khan

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Ward No. 81Jui Biswas

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Ward No. 82Firhad Hakim

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Ward No. 83Probir Kumar Mukhopadhyay

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Ward No. 84Paromita Chatterjee

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Ward No. 85Debasish Kumar

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Ward No. 86Saurav Basu

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Ward No. 87Manisha Bose

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Ward No. 88Mala Roy

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Ward No. 89Mamata Majumdar

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Ward No. 90Chaitali Chattopadhyay

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Ward No. 91Baiswanor Chatterjee

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Ward No. 92Madhuchhanda Deb{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}

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Ward No. 93Mousumi Das{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=10}}

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Ward No. 94Sandip Nandi Majumdar

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Ward No. 95Tapan Dasgupta

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Ward No. 96Vasundhara Goswami

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Ward No. 97Debabrata Majumdar

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Ward No. 98Arup Chakraborty

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Ward No. 99Mitali Banerjee

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Ward No. 100Prosenjit Das

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Ward No. 101Bappaditya Dasgupta

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Ward No. 102Sima Ghosh

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Ward No. 103Nandita Roy{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}

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Ward No. 104Tarakeswar Chakraborty{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=31}}

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Ward No. 105Sushila Mondal

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Ward No. 106Arijit Das Thakur

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Ward No. 107Lipika Manna

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Ward No. 108Sushanta Kumar Ghosh

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Ward No. 109Ananya Banerjee

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Ward No. 110Swaraj Kumar Mondal

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Ward No. 111Sandip Das

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Ward No. 112Gopal Roy

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Ward No. 113Anita Kar Majumdar Sil

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Ward No. 114Biswajit Mandal

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Ward No. 115Ratna Sur

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Ward No. 116Krishna Singh

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Ward No. 117Amit Singh

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Ward No. 118Tarak Singh

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Ward No. 119Kakali Bag

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Ward No. 120Susanta Ghosh

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Ward No. 121Rupak Ganguly

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Ward No. 122Soma Chakraborty

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Ward No. 123Sudip Polley

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Ward No. 124Rajib Kumar Das

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Ward No. 125Chhanda Sarkar

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Ward No. 126Ghanasree Bagh

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Ward No. 127Malobika Baidya

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Ward No. 128Partha Sarkar

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Ward No. 129Sanhita Das

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Ward No. 130Avijit Mukherjee

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Ward No. 131Ratna Chatterjee

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Ward No. 132Sanchita Mitra

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Ward No. 133Ranajit Shil

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Ward No. 134Shams Iqbal

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Ward No. 135Rubina Naaz{{Party name with color|Independent}}

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Ward No. 136Shamsuzzaman Ansari{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}

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Ward No. 137Wasim Ansari{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

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Ward No. 138Farida Parvin{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=3}}

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Ward No. 139Sheikh Mushtaque Ahamed

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Ward No. 140Abu Mohammed Tariq

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Ward No. 141Purbasa Naskar{{Party name with color|Independent}}

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Ward No. 142Raghunath Patra{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress|rowspan=3}}

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Ward No. 143Christina Biswas

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Ward No. 144Shefali Pramanik

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Budget

As of 2024-25, the city government's budget is {{INRConvert|5166.79|c}}, out of which {{INRConvert|320|c}} was earmarked for roads and transport infrastructure, {{INRConvert|692.14|c}} is to be spent on solid waste management, {{INRConvert|408|c}} on water supply and {{INRConvert|163|c}} on health services.{{Cite web|url = http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/kmc-presents-deficit-budget-of-rs-17066-cr-419082#:~:text=Kolkata%3A%20Kolkata%20Municipal%20Corporation's%20Chairman,estimated%20at%20Rs%204298.37%20crore.|title = KMC presents deficit budget of Rs 170.66 cr|date = 23 September 2020|access-date = 6 May 2021|archive-date = 6 May 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205731/http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/kmc-presents-deficit-budget-of-rs-17066-cr-419082#:~:text=Kolkata%3A%20Kolkata%20Municipal%20Corporation's%20Chairman,estimated%20at%20Rs%204298.37%20crore.|url-status = live}}

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|reason=13 june|date=June 2010}}

The Sheriff of Kolkata and The KMDA

The city also has an apolitical titular post, that of the Sheriff of Kolkata.{{cite news

| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051228/asp/calcutta/story_5652677.asp

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825204513/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051228/asp/calcutta/story_5652677.asp

| url-status=dead

| archive-date=25 August 2006

|title=New sheriff of Kolkata | publisher=The Telegraph

|date=28 December 2005| access-date=1 September 2007}} 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).{{cite web|publisher=Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority|url=http://www.cmdaonline.com/profile.html|title=About Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority|access-date=1 September 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000038/http://www.cmdaonline.com/profile.html|archive-date=28 September 2007|df=dmy-all}} 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)

File:Kolkata Police Stations Map (basemap).svg

In 2011, it was announced that Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will be coterminous.{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/City-police-chief-visits-added-areas/articleshow/8831204.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194202/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-13/kolkata/29652514_1_police-stations-kolkata-police-traffic-guards |url-status=live |archive-date=2 January 2014 | title=City police chief visits added areas | date=13 June 2011|newspaper=The Times of India | access-date=3 April 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/People-will-see-the-change-Kolkata-police-chief/articleshow/9790389.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194454/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-30/kolkata/29944168_1_purba-jadavpur-police-stations-traffic-guards |url-status=live |archive-date=2 January 2014 | title=People will see the change: Kolkata police chief| last=Bandyopadhyay | first= Krishnendu | date=30 August 2011|newspaper=The Times of India | access-date=3 April 2013}}

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

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|Car Parking

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|Central Records

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|Ch. VS Department

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|Education

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|Election Office

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|Entally workshop

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|Estate

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|Municipal Service Commission

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|Printing

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|Environment & Heritage Department

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|Roads and Asphaltum

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|Social Welfare & Urban Poverty Alleviation Department

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|Supply

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|City Planning Dept

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|Treasury Department

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References

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