| Type | Municipal Corporation
|
|---|---|
| Term limits | 5 years |
| Mayor | Firhad Hakim |
| Deputy Mayor | Atin Ghosh |
| Chairperson | Mala Roy
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| Structure | Bharat Kolkata Municipal Corporation 2026.svg
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| Meeting place | Headquarters of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
| Session room | Calcutta corporation building, esplanade, kolkata, west bengal, india (5375736977).jpg |
| Website | Template:Official URL |
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 Template:Convert.[1] 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.[2] Deshbandhu famously gave the position of the Chief Executive Officer to Bose over a more experienced Deshapran Birendranath Sasmal.[3] 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.[4]

Structure

The city is divided into 144 administrative wards[5] that are grouped into 16 boroughs.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] At present, the All India Trinamool Congress holds the power in the KMC.
| Borough | Wards |
|---|---|
| I | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| II | 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| III | 13, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 |
| IV | 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 38, 39 |
| V | 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50 |
| VI | 46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62 |
| VII | 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 |
| VIII | 68, 69, 70, 72, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90 |
| IX | 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82 |
| X | 81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 |
| XI | 103, 104, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114 |
| XII | 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109 |
| XIII | 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122 |
| XIV | 121, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132 |
| XV | 133, 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.
| Mayor: Firhad Hakim | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deputy Mayor: Atin Ghosh | ||||||||
| Assembly | Ward Details | Councillor | Party | Remarks | ||||
| Kashipur-Belgachhia | Ward No. 1 | Kartick Chandra Manna | Template:Full party name with color | |||||
| Ward No. 2 | Kakali Sen | |||||||
| Ward No. 3 | Debika Chakraborty | |||||||
| Ward No. 4 | Goutam Haldar | |||||||
| Ward No. 5 | Tarun Saha | |||||||
| Ward No. 6 | Suman Singh | |||||||
| Shyampukur | Ward No. 7 | Bapi Ghosh | ||||||
| Ward No. 8 | Pooja Panja | |||||||
| Ward No. 9 | Mitali Saha | |||||||
| Ward No. 10 | Subrata Banerjee | |||||||
| Maniktala | Ward No. 11 | Atin Ghosh | ||||||
| Ward No. 12 | Minakshi Gangopadhyay | |||||||
| Ward No. 13 | Anindya Kishore Routh | |||||||
| Ward No. 14 | Amal Chakraborty | |||||||
| Ward No. 15 | Sukhla Bhore | |||||||
| Ward No. 16 | Swapan Kumar Das | |||||||
| Shyampukur | Ward No. 17 | Mohan Kumar Gupta | ||||||
| Ward No. 18 | Sunanda Sarkar | |||||||
| Ward No. 19 | Shikha Saha | |||||||
| Ward No. 20 | Vijay Upadhyay | |||||||
| Ward No. 21 | Mira Hazra | |||||||
| Jorasanko | Ward No. 22 | Meena Devi Purohit | Template:Full party name with color | |||||
| Ward No. 23 | Vijay Ojha | |||||||
| Shyampukur | Ward No. 24 | Ellora Saha | Template:Full party name with color | |||||
| Jorasanko | Ward No. 25 | Rajesh Kumar Sinha | ||||||
| Shyampukur | Ward No. 26 | Tarak Nath Chattopadhyay | ||||||
| Jorasanko | Ward No. 27 | Minakshi Gupta | ||||||
| Beleghata | Ward No. 28 | Ayan Chakraborty | ||||||
| Ward No. 29 | Iqbal Ahmed | |||||||
| Ward No. 30 | Papiya Ghosh Biswas | |||||||
| Maniktala | Ward No. 31 | Paresh Paul | ||||||
| Ward No. 32 | Santi Ranjan Kundu | |||||||
| Beleghata | Ward No. 33 | Chinu Biswas | ||||||
| Ward No. 34 | Alokananda Das | |||||||
| Ward No. 35 | Ashutosh Das | |||||||
| Ward No. 36 | Sachin Kumar Singh | |||||||
| Jorasanko | Ward No. 37 | Soma Chaudhuri | ||||||
| Ward No. 38 | Sadhana Bose | |||||||
| Ward No. 39 | Mohammad Jasimuddin | |||||||
| Ward No. 40 | Suparna Dutta | |||||||
| Ward No. 41 | Reita Chowdhury | |||||||
| Ward No. 42 | Mahesh Kumar Sharma | |||||||
| Ward No. 43 | Ayesha Kaniz | Defected to AITC | ||||||
| Chowranghee | Ward No. 44 | Rehana Khatoon | ||||||
| Ward No. 45 | Santosh Kumar Pathak | Template:Full party name with color | Defected from INC to BJP [9] | |||||
| Ward No. 46 | Priyanka Saha | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Ward No. 47 | Bimal Singh | |||||||
| Ward No. 48 | Biswarup Dey | |||||||
| Ward No. 49 | Monalisa Banerjee | |||||||
| Ward No. 50 | Sajal Ghosh | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Ward No. 51 | Indranil Kumar | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Ward No. 52 | Sohini Mukherjee | |||||||
| Ward No. 53 | Indrani Saha Banerjee | |||||||
| Entally | Ward No. 54 | Amiruddin | ||||||
| Ward No. 55 | Sabita Rani Das | |||||||
| Ward No. 56 | Swapan Samaddar | |||||||
| Beleghata | Ward No. 57 | Jiban Saha | ||||||
| Entally | Ward No. 58 | Sandipan Saha | ||||||
| Ward No. 59 | Jolly Bose | |||||||
| Ballygunge | Ward No. 60 | Kaiser Jamil | ||||||
| Ward No. 61 | Manzar Iqbal | |||||||
| Chowranghee | Ward No. 62 | Sana Ahmed | ||||||
| Bhabanipur | Ward No. 63 | Susmita Bhattacharya Chatterjee | ||||||
| Ballygunge | Ward No. 64 | Sammi Jahan Begum | ||||||
| Ward No. 65 | Nibedita Sharma | |||||||
| Kasba | Ward No. 66 | Ahmed Faiz Khan | ||||||
| Ward No. 67 | Bijan Lal Mukherjee | |||||||
| Ballygunge | Ward No. 68 | Sudarshana Mukherjee | ||||||
| Ward No. 69 | Dilip Bose | |||||||
| Bhabanipur | Ward No. 70 | Ashim Kumar Bose | ||||||
| Ward No. 71 | Papiya Singh | |||||||
| Ward No. 72 | Sandip Ranjan Bakshi | |||||||
| Ward No. 73 | Kajari Banerjee | |||||||
| Ward No. 74 | Debalina Biswas | |||||||
| Kolkata Port | Ward No. 75 | Nizamuddin Shams | ||||||
| Ward No. 76 | Shashti Das | |||||||
| Bhabanipur | Ward No. 77 | Shamima Rehan Khan | ||||||
| Kolkata Port | Ward No. 78 | Soma Das | ||||||
| Ward No. 79 | Ram Pyare Ram | |||||||
| Ward No. 80 | Mohammad Anwar Khan | |||||||
| Rashbehari | Ward No. 81 | Jui Biswas | ||||||
| Bhabanipur | Ward No. 82 | Firhad Hakim | ||||||
| Rashbehari | Ward No. 83 | Probir Kumar Mukhopadhyay | ||||||
| Ward No. 84 | Paromita Chatterjee | |||||||
| Ballygunge | Ward No. 85 | Debasish Kumar | ||||||
| Rashbehari | Ward No. 86 | Saurav Basu | ||||||
| Ward No. 87 | Manisha Bose | |||||||
| Ward No. 88 | Mala Roy | |||||||
| Ward No. 89 | Mamata Majumdar | |||||||
| Ward No. 90 | Chaitali Chattopadhyay | |||||||
| Kasba | Ward No. 91 | Baiswanor Chatterjee | ||||||
| Ward No. 92 | Madhuchhanda Deb | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Rashbehari | Ward No. 93 | Mousumi Das | Template:Full party name with color | |||||
| Tollygunge | Ward No. 94 | Sandip Nandi Majumdar | ||||||
| Ward No. 95 | Tapan Dasgupta | |||||||
| Jadavpur | Ward No. 96 | Vasundhara Goswami | ||||||
| Tollygunge | Ward No. 97 | Debabrata Majumdar | ||||||
| Ward No. 98 | Arup Chakraborty | |||||||
| Jadavpur | Ward No. 99 | Mitali Banerjee | ||||||
| Tollygunge | Ward No. 100 | Prosenjit Das | ||||||
| Jadavpur | Ward No. 101 | Bappaditya Dasgupta | ||||||
| Ward No. 102 | Sima Ghosh | |||||||
| Ward No. 103 | Nandita Roy | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Ward No. 104 | Tarakeswar Chakraborty | Template:Full party name with color | ||||||
| Ward No. 105 | Sushila Mondal | |||||||
| Ward No. 106 | Arijit Das Thakur | |||||||
| Kasba | Ward No. 107 | Lipika Manna | ||||||
| Ward No. 108 | Sushanta Kumar Ghosh | |||||||
| Jadavpur | Ward No. 109 | Ananya Banerjee | ||||||
| Ward No. 110 | Swaraj Kumar Mondal | |||||||
| Tollygunge | Ward No. 111 | Sandip Das | ||||||
| Ward No. 112 | Gopal Roy | |||||||
| Ward No. 113 | Anita Kar Majumdar Sil | |||||||
| Ward No. 114 | Biswajit Mandal | |||||||
| Behala Purba | Ward No. 115 | Ratna Sur | ||||||
| Ward No. 116 | Krishna Singh | |||||||
| Ward No. 117 | Amit Singh | |||||||
| Behala Paschim | Ward No. 118 | Tarak Singh | ||||||
| Ward No. 119 | Kakali Bag | |||||||
| Behala Purba | Ward No. 120 | Susanta Ghosh | ||||||
| Ward No. 121 | Rupak Ganguly | |||||||
| Ward No. 122 | Soma Chakraborty | |||||||
| Ward No. 123 | Sudip Polley | |||||||
| Ward No. 124 | Rajib Kumar Das | |||||||
| Behala Paschim | Ward No. 125 | Chhanda Sarkar | ||||||
| Ward No. 126 | Ghanasree Bagh | |||||||
| Ward No. 127 | Malobika Baidya | |||||||
| Ward No. 128 | Partha Sarkar | |||||||
| Ward No. 129 | Sanhita Das | |||||||
| Ward No. 130 | Avijit Mukherjee | |||||||
| Ward No. 131 | Ratna Chatterjee | |||||||
| Ward No. 132 | Sanchita Mitra | |||||||
| Kolkata Port | Ward No. 133 | Ranajit Shil | ||||||
| Ward No. 134 | Shams Iqbal | |||||||
| Ward No. 135 | Rubina Naaz | Defected to AITC | ||||||
| Metiaburuz | Ward No. 136 | Shamsuzzaman Ansari | ||||||
| Ward No. 137 | Wasim Ansari | Defected from INC to AITC | ||||||
| Ward No. 138 | Farida Parvin | |||||||
| Ward No. 139 | Sheikh Mushtaque Ahamed | |||||||
| Ward No. 140 | Abu Mohammed Tariq | |||||||
| Ward No. 141 | Purbasa Naskar | Defected to AITC | ||||||
| Behala Purba | Ward No. 142 | Raghunath Patra | ||||||
| Ward No. 143 | Christina Biswas | |||||||
| Ward No. 144 | Shefali Pramanik | |||||||
Budget
As of 2024-25, the city government's budget is Template:INRConvert, out of which Template:INRConvert was earmarked for roads and transport infrastructure, Template:INRConvert is to be spent on solid waste management, Template:INRConvert on water supply and Template:INRConvert on health services.[10]
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.Template:Citation needed
The Sheriff of Kolkata and The KMDA
The city also has an apolitical titular post, that of the Sheriff of Kolkata.[11] 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).[12] The KMA includes a large suburban hinterland around the urban centre of Kolkata.
Area of jurisdiction
Template:See also The jurisdiction of the KMC covers the area covered by the Kolkata Police (which in turn includes the area of Kolkata District / KMC)

In 2011, it was announced that Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will be coterminous.[13][14]
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
| Sl.No. | Department[15] |
|---|---|
| 1 | Advertisement |
| 2 | Amusement |
| 3 | Assessment & Collection |
| 4 | Building |
| 5 | Bustee Services |
| 6 | Car Parking |
| 7 | Central Records |
| 8 | Ch. VS Department |
| 9 | Education |
| 10 | Election Office |
| 11 | Electricity |
| 12 | Engineering (Civil) |
| 13 | Entally workshop |
| 14 | Estate |
| 15 | Finance and accounts |
| 16 | Health |
| 17 | Info. & public relations |
| 18 | Information Technology |
| 19 | Institute of Urban Management |
| 20 | Internal Audit |
| 21 | Law |
| 22 | License |
| 23 | Lighting |
| 24 | Market |
| 25 | Municipal Secretary’s department |
| 26 | Municipal Service Commission |
| 27 | Parks & Squares |
| 28 | Personnel |
| 29 | Planning & Development |
| 30 | Printing |
| 31 | Environment & Heritage Department |
| 32 | Roads and Asphaltum |
| 33 | Sewerage & Drainage |
| 34 | Social Welfare & Urban Poverty Alleviation Department |
| 35 | Solid Waste Management |
| 36 | Supply |
| 37 | City Planning Dept |
| 38 | Treasury Department |
| 39 | Vigilance |
| 40 | Water Supply |
Elections
2021
| S.No. | Party name | Party symbol | Number of Councillors | Change | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|1. | AITC | 134 | Template:Increase 20 | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|2. | BJP | 3 | Template:Decrease 4 | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|3. | INC | 2 | Template:Decrease 3 | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|4. | CPI(M) | 1 | Template:Decrease 9 | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|5. | CPI | 1 | Template:Decrease 1 | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:black"|6. | IND | 3 | Template:Steady |
2015
| S.No. | Party name | Party symbol | Number of Councillors[16] | Change | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|1. | AITC | 114 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|2. | CPI(M) | 10 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|3. | CPI | 2 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|4. | RSP | 2 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|5. | AIFB | 1 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|6. | BJP | 7 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|7. | INC | 5 | Template:Steady | ||
| ! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:black"|8. | IND | 3 | Template:Steady |
References
- ↑ kmcgov.in. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ↑ Kolkata – A Municipal History. KMC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ History of Modern Bengal: 1905-1947{{#if:Majumdar|, Majumdar}. G. Bharadwaj(1978)
- ↑ Mayors of Kolkata. KMC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ KMC polls on Dec 19 to be litmus test for TMC, BJP on urban base since assembly elections(25 November 2021). Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ↑ Kolkata Statistics. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- ↑ 007 Kolkata (India). World Association of the Major Metropolises. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ↑ About Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 26 April 2006.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedsp - ↑ KMC presents deficit budget of Rs 170.66 cr(23 September 2020). Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ New sheriff of Kolkata(28 December 2005). Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- ↑ About Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- ↑ City police chief visits added areas. The Times of India(13 June 2011). Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ People will see the change: Kolkata police chief. The Times of India(30 August 2011). Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ KMC Departments. Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ↑ 2015 KMC Results.
External links
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