Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation | |
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Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 2015 |
Leadership | |
Mayor | |
Deputy Mayor | |
Chairperson | |
Structure | |
Seats | 41 |
Political groups |
TMC: 39
INC: 1
2022 |
Next election | 2027 |
Meeting place | |
Headquarters of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation | |
Website | |
www |
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is the
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation was headed by Administrator Pawan Kadyan, IAS till elections were held in October 2015 after delimitation into 41 wards (Ward No.s 1 to 26 from Rajarhat-Gopalpur Municipality, Ward No. 27 from Mahishbathan II Gram Panchayat and Ward No.s 28 to 41 from Bidhannagar Municipality).
Geography
This civic administrative body administers an area of 60.5 square kilometres (23.4 sq mi) which is approximately 3.2% of the Total Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA).
Administration
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is divided into 41 wards. The 41 wards are arranged into 6 boroughs.
Budget
As of 2020, the budget of the
Demographics
As per 2011 census, total population under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is 632,107. Total number of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are 121,761 and 10,950 respectively. Among the 41 wards, Wards no 20 has the highest population with 20,981 residents while ward no 23 has the lowest population with 11,639 residents. Total number of households in BMC is 153,661. [2]
List of mayors
No. | Name | Term | Constituency | Party | |
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Start | End | ||||
1 | Sabyasachi Dutta | 2015 | 2019 | All India Trinamool Congress
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2 | Krishna Chakraborty | 2019 | Incumbent |
References
- ^ "North 24 Parganas district". Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "bmcwbgov.in". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Kolkata Gazette Notification for Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation" (PDF). Department of Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "New Commissioner".
- ^ "Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation about to be formed soon".
- ^ "Bidhannagar holds online budget session | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India.