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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.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the central authority which deals with the processing of new trade licenses and the renewal of the same as well. [23] In 2019, Kolkata, along with Bengaluru was included in the list of cities in India for the World Bank's ease of doing business survey in India, which so far covered only New Delhi and ...
Ward No. 45 is bordered on the north by Port Trust Road from the River Hooghly leading to Mahatma Gandhi Road, Raja Woodmount Street, C.I.T. Road and Biplabi Rashbehari Bose Road; on the east by Stand Road, C.I.T. Road, Rabindra Sarani, B.B.D. Bag East, Old Court House St. and Government Place East; on the south by Lal Bazar Street, Lawrence Road, Eden Garden Road and a line drawn in ...
As a matter of fact, Kolkata Municipal Corporation or “KMC” (earlier known as Calcutta Municipal Corporation) is one of the oldest municipal bodies of the country. In 1726, a Mayor's court was established by a Royal Charter. With the expansion of British Government by making Calcutta as a capital of British India in 1773, the municipal ...
The establishment and evolution of Kolkata Municipal Corporation followed a long process starting from around the middle of the 19th century. The Municipal Consolidation Act of 1888 and certain steps taken thereafter saw the addition of peripheral areas in the eastern and southern parts of the city to the corporation area.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is divided into 144 administrative wards that are grouped into 16 boroughs. [1]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 WBTPO is an initiative by the state's Commerce & Industries department with the prime objective to promote trade, commerce and business opportunities for West Bengal. The idea was then germinated by West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and they jointly formed the WBTPO. [citation needed]
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), another ancillary civic body, is responsible for the statutory planning and development of this mega urban area. [8] The KMA includes a large suburban hinterland around the urban centres of Kolkata. The city also has an apolitical titular post, that of the Sheriff of Kolkata. [9]