Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Kolkata Municipal Corporation
কলকাতা পৌরসংস্থা

Logo of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Abbreviation	KMC
Motto	Purosree Bibardhan (পুরশ্রী বিবর্ধন)
Formation	1876
Type	Municipal
Headquarters	Kolkata
Official language	Bengali, English
Mayor	Sovan Chatterjee
Staff	37,829 (as on 31 March 2003)
Website	Kolkatamycity.com

Kolkata Municipal Corporation or KMC (Bengali: কলকাতা পৌরসংস্থা) (formerly Calcutta Municipal Corporation or CMC) is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Kolkata. This civic administrative body administers an area of 200.71 km². Its motto, Purosree Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali script. KMC is headed by Sovan Chatterjee the present Mayor of Kolkata.

The KMC was established in 2003. 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 annually; the first was Chittaranjan Das with NIYAZ Ahamed as his Chief Executive Officer. Later mayors include Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, and for the 2010-2015 term, Sovan Chatterjee.

The city is divided into 144 administrative wards that are grouped into 15 boroughs. 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. 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. At present, the All India Trinamool Congress holds the power in the KMC.