Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिका
Logo of the BMC
Type
Type
History
Founded 1888
Leadership
Ajoy Mehta[1]
Seats 227
Motto
(Sanskrit: यतो धर्मस्ततो जय)
(Where there is Righteousness, there shall be Victory)
Meeting place
Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai
Website
www.mcgm.gov.in

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) also known as. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is the civic body that governs the capital city of Mumbai in Maharashtra and is India's richest municipal organization.[2][3] The BMC's annual budget is more than that of some of the small states of India. Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act 1888,[4] it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some suburbs of Mumbai. In 2014, Trishna Vishwasrao became the first female corporator to be leader of the Corporation's house.[5]

Statue of Sir. Pherozeshah Mehta outside the BMC Building.

Administration

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is headed by a Municipal commissioner, an IAS officer. The commissioner wields the executive power of the house. A quinquennial election is held to elect corporators to power. The corporators 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 is the head of the house, who is usually from the majority party. As of June 2008, all administrative business in the BMC is conducted in Marathi.[6]

City officials
Mayor Snehal Ambekar September 9, 2014
Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta
Police Commissioner Javed Ahmed September 2015

Legislative

As of 2009, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's legislature, also known as the Corporation Council, consists of 227 members.

Corporation Election 2012

Political Performance in Election 2012[7]

S.No. Party Name Alliance Party flag or symbol Number of Corporators
01 Shiv Sena (SS) NDA 75
02 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) NDA 31
03 Indian National Congress (INC) UPA 52
04 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) UPA 07
05 Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) 27
06 Independents 28
07 Samajwadi Party (SP) 09

See also

References

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