Nagpur Municipal Corporation
| Nagpur Municipal Corporation नागपूर महानगर पालिका |
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Corporation's logo
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| Type | |
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Municipal Corporation of the Nagpur
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| Established | March 1951 |
| Leadership | |
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Mayor
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Nanda Jichkar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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Collector
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Shri Sachin Kurve
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Deputy Mayor
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Shri Deepraj Pardikar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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| Structure | |
| Seats | 151 |
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Political groups
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BJP: 108 seats
Shiv Sena: 2 seats
NCP: 1 seat
BSP: 4 seats
Independent: 7 seats
INC: 29 seats
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| Elections | |
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Last election
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2017 |
| Website | |
| http://www.nmcnagpur.gov.in/ | |
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation is the municipal body administering Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
The Municipal Council for Nagpur was established in 1864. At that time, the area under the jurisdiction of the Nagpur Municipal Council was 15.5 km2 and the population was 82,000.
The duties entrusted to the Nagpur Municipal Council were to maintain cleanliness and arrange for street lights and water supply with government assistance. In 1922, the Central Provinces & Berar Municipalities Act was framed for the proper functioning of the Municipal Council.
On 22 January 1950, CP & Berar Act No. 2 was published in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette which is known as the City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948 (CNC Act). The Municipal Corporation came into existence in March 1951. The first development plan of the city was prepared in 1953. In the year 1956, under the state reconstitution, the Berar Province merged into the Maharashtra State with Mumbai being recognised as its capital; in 1960, Nagpur was declared as the second capital of the state.
The results of the 2012 election are shown in the following table.
The results of the 2017 election are shown in the following table.
As per the CNC Act, 1948, the key responsibility for providing Nagpur’s citizens basic urban services lies with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. NMC is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.
NMC co-ordinates with various other government organizations like NIT, MHADA, MSRTC, the Traffic Police, MPCB, etc. for delivering these basic urban services.
The corporation is headed by a Municipal commissioner, an IAS officer. He wields the executive power of the house. A quinquennial election is held to elect corporators to power. They are responsible for overseeing that their constituencies have the basic civic infrastructure in place, and that there is no lacuna on the part of the authorities. The mayor heads the party with the largest vote. A largely ceremonial post, he has limited duties.
Various departments such as public relations, library, health, finance, buildings, slums, roads, street lighting, traffic, establishment, gardens, public works, local audit, legal services, water works, education, octroi and fire services manage their specific activities. The activities of NMC are administered by its zonal offices.
NMC divides city in 10 zones and which are served by zonal offices –
As per NMC’s records, it has 10,450 employees at present (against a requirement of 12596) across more than 20 departments.
Each zone is divided into several wards. Each ward is represented by a corporator. NMC comprises 136 corporators majority of whom are elected in local elections. NMC and NIT together are in charge of the civic and infrastructure needs along with development of new areas.
One of City's Mayor has become Chief Minister of Maharashtra i.e. Devendra Fadnavis in 2014.
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