Municipal Corporation is the term used for describing the local governing body in countries, cities, towns, charter townships, townships, villages and boroughs.
Municipal Corporation of India was formed to take care of the requirements and necessities of the various communities like medical centers, educational necessities, along with matters relating to property and housing taxes. The corporation departments work for cities with more than twenty thousand population. It is also known as the “Nagar Nigam”.
Overview
The Municipal Corporation of India, often abbreviated as the MCI, was formed under the 1835 corporation act, and it mainly deals with providing the basic necessities to every small village, town, city or district. Election is conducted to elect municipal commissioner every five years.
The chief motto to conduct elections is to offer convenient services for the public and its main aim is to resolve their daily complications. The metropolitan cities in our country hold the largest corporations in the city. These large metropolitan cities have very high population density, and they have the biggest commercial centers which often give rise to tons of complications to the residents.
Municipal Corporation in India administers the city with such large levels of population and the interactions are made directly with the state government to bring things under control, whenever the need arises. Apart from the metropolitan cities in the India, the largest municipal corporations in India are located in Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, and Bangalore. Chennai Municipal Corporation happens to be the oldest one in the country.
Composition of MCI
Municipal Corporation consists of various members for different departments elected from different wards of the city. Deputy Mayor and Mayor are elected by the corporation members themselves.
Municipal Commissioner will be from Indian Administrative Service, and he/she is appointed as the administrative staff for the city Municipal Corporation. He/she takes care of implementing various corporation decisions, and prepares the annual budget too.
Municipal Commissioner can be regarded as the CEO of Municipal Corporation. All the executive powers are vested with the commissioner, just like father of a Church… He/she is the legislative body who lays down the policy and the city governance, and is of course responsible for executing the policies too.
Functions of MCI
Municipal Corporation of India is very much responsible for taking care of public transportation, roads, water supply, birth, death records (delegated from central government Registration Act), sewage, sanitation, flood control, drainage, and other public safety services such as ambulance and fire services in the locality.
Sources of income to the municipal corporation are entertainment taxes, property taxes, Octroi and utility fees.
Municipal Corporations across India
Municipal Corporations of Delhi has been very successful in providing the vital services and primary essentials like horticulture, education, and proper road transportation; issues relating to health, taxes, and licensing fall under the jurisdiction of MCI too.
Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has also been victorious in doing full justice to their part, though the high rate of growth in population of the city has made things rather difficult.
Chennai Nagar Nigam is very important to India, and it is pretty old; it is amalgamated since the era of East India Company. Their goal is to provide basic facilities that correspond to the ongoing urbanization, and things are pretty smooth in Chennai at the moment.
Kolkata Nagar Nigam takes care of the furious local problems that arise on daily basis, in a place crowded to the maximum possible extent that you may think of. Other than the cities listed above, India has hosted corporations like Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Amritsar, and Ahmadabad.
If you encounter any problems concerned to any of department of the community, you can depend upon the services provided by the Municipal Corporation all over the country, but the time taken for the resolution of your problem may largely depend upon the manpower in that particular state, and number of problems in the queue, before your request!
Municipal Corporations in India operates in regions listed below (along with details of current population as per the latest stats) (Source: Wikipedia) –
