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A municipal corporation is a type of local government in India which administers urban areas with a population of more than one million. The growing population and urbanization of various Indian cities highlighted the need for a type of local governing body that could provide services such as healthcare, education, housing and transport by collecting property taxes and administering grants ...
Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. [1] The term can also be used to describe municipally owned corporations .
A municipally owned corporation is a corporation owned by a municipality.They are typically "organisations with independent corporate status, managed by an executive board appointed primarily by local government officials, and with majority public ownership."
The PRi structure did not develop the requisite democratic momentum and failed to cater to the needs of rural development.There are various reasons for such an outcome which include political and bureaucratic resistance at the state level to share power and resources with local-level institutions, the domination of local elites over the major share of the benefits of welfare schemes, lack of ...
Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 [5] Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Section 3 of Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, and Sections 3,4, and 341A of Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965 create the following categories of urban areas based on their population.
Municipal Corporations Act is the statutory Acts created for governing of Municipal Corporations across various Indian towns and cities. [1] Municipal Corporation mechanism in India was introduced during British Rule with formation of municipal corporation in Madras in 1688, later followed by municipal corporations in Bombay and Calcutta by 1762. [2]
It was the 74th amendment to the Constitution of India in 1992 that brought constitutional validity to municipal or local governments. Until amendments were made in respective state municipal legislations as well, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive ...
Surendranagar Vaḍhawāṇa Municipal Corporation Surendranagar: Surendranagar: 58.60 329,000 12 2025 14 Morbi Municipal Corporation Morbi: Morbi: 46.58 327,000 13 2025 15 Gandhidham Municipal Corporation Gandhidham: Kutch: 63.49 322,000 13 2025 16 Porbandar - Chhaya Municipal Corporation Porbandar: Porbandar: 97.00 282,000 13 2025 17 Vapi ...