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[[File:Relations among Kolkata District, police area, KMC.jpg|thumb|Jurisdictions of civic authorities, as of 2010]]
The '''civic administration of [[Kolkata]]''' (the metropolitan city and the capital of the [[West Bengal]] state of [[India]]) is executed by several government agencies, and consists of overlapping structural divisions. Kolkata's administrative agencies have areas of jurisdiction that do not coincide.

==Governing bodies==
At least five administrative definitions of the city are available, many of which overlap each other. The entire KMC area comes under Kolkata district, with the setting up of the new Kolkata District Collector Office at Bhowanipore. This was done as a result of the State Government cabinet decision in 2012. <ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/kolkata-district-collector-to-oversee-key-city-services/articleshow/16776041.cms </ref> Listed in ascending order of area, the broad administrative definitions of the city are :

===Kolkata District===
Headed by the [[District Collector]] for Kolkata district, it primarily includes the historic core and downtown parts of the city. It functions as an administrative unit for revenue, national and central policymaking and census enumeration purposes.

===Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)===
[[File:Kolkata Municipal Corporation ward level map as of 2011 Census.png|thumb|Kolkata Municipal Corporation ward level map as of 2011 Census. Three additional wards have been added since then, taking the total to 144.]]

The total area of the city's main administrative body, the KMC, is the one most widely understood to be what constitutes ("[[Kolkata|Kolkata or Kolkata City]]"). Its 144 municipal wards span the entirety of the city's core area under the Kolkata District.<ref> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/kolkata-district-collector-to-oversee-key-city-services/articleshow/16776041.cms </ref>

The KMC oversees and manages the civic infrastructure of the city's 16 boroughs <ref> https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/BasicStatistics.jsp</ref> which together encompass 144 wards.<ref name=kmcbasicstat>{{cite web|title=Basic statistics of Kolkata|url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/BasicStatistics.jsp|publisher=Kolkata Municipal Corporation
|access-date=5 February 2012}}</ref> Each ward elects a councillor to the KMC. Each borough has a committee of councillors, each of whom is elected to represent a ward. By means of the borough committees, the corporation undertakes urban planning and maintains roads, government-aided schools, hospitals, and municipal markets.<ref name="kmcfunction"/> As Kolkata's apex body, the corporation discharges its functions through the mayor-in-council, which comprises a mayor, a deputy mayor, and ten other elected members of the KMC.<ref name=kmcstructure>{{cite web |url= https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/structure.pdf |title= Legislative structure |format= PDF |publisher= Kolkata Municipal Corporation |access-date= 3 December 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120104193107/https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/structure.pdf |archive-date= 4 January 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref> The functions of the KMC include water supply, drainage and sewerage, sanitation, solid waste management, street lighting, and building regulation.<ref name="kmcfunction">{{cite web |url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KMCFunctions.jsp |title= KMC functions|publisher=Kolkata Municipal Corporation |access-date=3 December 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Kolkata Municipal Corporation - Kolkata 2013-04-15 6065.JPG|thumb|Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]

===Kolkata Police===
Since 2 September 2011, the area under the jurisdiction of [[Kolkata Police]] has remained co-terminus with the KMC area.<ref>{{cite news|title=Change of guard brings welcome relief|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-02/kolkata/30105377_1_police-stations-cycle-rickshaws-kolkata-police|access-date=10 December 2011|date=2 September 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707223852/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-02/kolkata/30105377_1_police-stations-cycle-rickshaws-kolkata-police|archive-date=7 July 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Greater Kolkata===
A non-legal term with no fixed boundaries, it is used colloquially by citizens and enjoys wide recognition in conversations, advertisements and addresses, being firmly embedded in the city's social fabric. Historically, it has always broadly composed of the non-KMC area and other urban localities situated just adjacent to it. To the north, some of these localities are, from west to east: [[North Barrackpur]], [[Barrackpore]], [[Titagarh]], [[Khardaha]], [[Panihati]], [[Kamarhati]], [[Baranagar]], [[New Barrackpore]], [[Madhyamgram]], [[Barasat]], [[Dum Dum]], [[North Dum Dum]], [[South Dum Dum]] and [[Bidhannagar]]. To the south, these are from west to east: [[Maheshtala]], [[Budge Budge]], [[Pujali]], [[Rajpur Sonarpur]] and [[Baruipur]]. Many of these have municipality status.

===Kolkata Metropolitan Area===
According to the [[2011 Census of India]], the much larger Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the third-largest [[Urban Agglomeration|urban agglomeration]] [[List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India|in India]]. It is spread across the districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, [[Nadia district|Nadia]], [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] and [[Howrah district|Howrah]], with nearly 2 crore residents. The [[Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority]] (KMDA), another ancillary civic body, is responsible for the statutory planning and development of this mega urban area.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The KMA includes a large suburban [[hinterland]] around the urban centres of Kolkata.

The city also has an apolitical [[titular ruler|titular]] post, that of the [[Sheriff of Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051228/asp/calcutta/story_5652677.asp
|title=New sheriff of Kolkata | publisher=The Telegraph
|date=28 December 2005| access-date=1 September 2007}}</ref> The Sheriff presides over various city-related functions and conferences.

==State government==
[[File:Writers' Building.jpg|thumb|left|Historical State Secretariat Writers' Building]]
[[File:Calcutta High Court - Kolkata 2011-12-18 0352.JPG|thumb|Calcutta High Court]]
As the capital of the state and the seat of the [[Government of West Bengal]], Kolkata houses not only the various offices of local government listed above, but also, for the state level, the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]], the Secretariat ([[Writers' Building]]) and the [[Calcutta High Court]]. Kolkata also has [[lower court]]s; the [[Small Causes Court]] for civil matters, and the [[Sessions Court]] for criminal cases.

==Assembly and parliamentary constituencies==
[[File:West Bengal State Legislative Assembly House, Kolkata.jpg|thumb|left|West Bengal Legislative Assembly Bidhan Sabha]]
The parliamentary constituencies and assembly constituencies in West Bengal, as defined by [[Election Commission of India]], underwent [[delimitation]] in 2008 according to the report of the [[Delimitation Commission]].<ref name=delimitgazzette>{{cite web|url=http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |title=Notification: order no. 18 |author=Delimitation Commission |date=15 February 2006 |publisher=Election Commission of India |location=New Delhi |pages=12–25 |access-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918130255/http://ceowestbengal.nic.in/news_pdf/gazette123.pdf |archive-date=18 September 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref> [[Kolkata district]] is divided into 16 assembly constituencies (and partially 1 more also) — [[Kashipur Belgachhia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kashipur-Belgachhia]], [[Maniktala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Maniktala]], [[Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Shyampukur]], [[Jorasanko (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jorasanko]], [[Beleghata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Beleghata]], [[Entally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Entally]], [[Chowranghee (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chowringhee]], [[Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Port]], [[Metiaburuz (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Metiaburuz]] (partially), [[Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhabanipur]], [[Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ballygunge]], [[Rashbehari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rashbehari]], [[Kasba, Kolkata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kasba]], [[Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Purba]], [[Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Paschim]], [[Tollyganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tollyganj]] and [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]]. There are two parliamentary constituencies — [[Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata North]] and [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata South]] — that have the name "Kolkata" associated with them. Chowringhee, Entally, Beliaghata, Jorasanko, Shyampukur, Maniktala and Kashipur-Belgachhia assembly constituencies form [[Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. Kolkata Port, Bhabanipur, Ballygunge, Rashbehari, Kasba, Behala Purba and Behala Paschim assembly constituencies form [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitgazzette/>

Jadavpur and Tollyganj assembly constituencies are within [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur parliamentary constituency]]. Few wards (Ward no 136 to 141) of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Kolkata district) area constitute part of [[Metiaburuz (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]. Metiaburuz assembly constituency also has wards from [[Maheshtala|Maheshtala Municipality]] of [[South 24 Parganas District]]. Metiaburuz assembly constituency lies within [[Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency)|Diamond Harbour parliamentary constituency]].<ref name=delimitgazzette/>

== References ==
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[[Category:Government of Kolkata]]

Civic administration of Kolkata - Revision history

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