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Municipal corporation. 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. [1][2][3]
Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) [1] is a local government for the City of Chennai in the Chennai Metropolitan Area of Tamil Nadu, India.Inaugurated on 29 September 1688, under a royal charter issued by King James II of England on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.
Asensole (now Asansol) Municipality was established on 1 July 1885, according to a notification dated 23 April 1885. [1] Initially, the municipality covered the Railway Colony, the English area, Budhdanga village, Bastin’s Bazar, Pucca Bazar, Munshi Bazar, and Talpukur Chati areas. The first committee was formed with seven government ...
Most U.S. states and territories have at least two tiers of local government: counties and municipalities. Louisiana uses the term parish and Alaska uses the term borough for what the U.S. Census Bureau terms county equivalents in those states. Civil townships or towns are used as subdivisions of a county in 20 states, mostly in the Northeast ...
It shall not completely surround an existing municipal corporation. It shall be contiguous. Municipalities have full home rule powers, may adopt a charter, ordinances and resolutions for self-government. [2] Each municipality chooses its own form of government, but most have elected mayors and city councils or city commissions.
Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) was established in the year 1994. [47] The area of the municipal corporation is 467 km 2 (180 sq mi) and is headed by a mayor. [48] In 2020, JMC was bifurcated into two Municipal Corporations, namely Greater Jaipur Municipal Corporation and Jaipur Heritage Municipal Corporation with 150 and 100 wards respectively.
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and some infrastructural assets of the Greater Bengaluru metropolitan area. [2] It is the fourth largest Municipal Corporation in India and is responsible for a population of 8.4 million in an area of 741 km 2.
It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in Western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. [3] Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation is divided into 5 zones - City Zone, Kavi Nagar Zone, Vijay Nagar Zone, Mohan Nagar Zone and Vasundhara Zone. [6] The Municipal Corporation comprises 100 wards. [3]