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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 .
A municipal corporation is a type of local government in India which administers urban areas with a population of more than one million. The growing population and urbanization of various Indian cities highlighted the need for a type of local governing body that could provide services such as healthcare, education, housing and transport by collecting property taxes and administering grants ...
A municipally owned corporation is a corporation owned by a municipality.They are typically "organisations with independent corporate status, managed by an executive board appointed primarily by local government officials, and with majority public ownership."
During the 19th century, many municipalities were granted charters by the state governments and became technically municipal corporations. [15] Townships and county governments and city councils shared much of the responsibility for decision-making which varied from state to state. [15]
It was the 74th amendment to the Constitution of India in 1992 that brought constitutional validity to municipal or local governments. Until amendments were made in respective state municipal legislations as well, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive ...
The municipal council sets the scope of municipal activity, takes major decisions, and delegates responsibility. The council is led by a mayor ( ordfører ) and is divided into an executive council ( formannskap ) and a number of committees, each responsible for a subsection of tasks.
In Sri Lanka, under the Municipal Council Ordinance there is a municipal commissioner of each municipal council. The commissioner is the chief administrative officer and is the highest ranking non-elected officer of the municipality and in most cases be an officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service on secondment.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) comprises the limits of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) along with 10 municipalities and 8 panchayats in erstwhile Ranga Reddy district and 2 municipalities in erstwhile Medak district. The 10 municipalities in the erstwhile Ranga Reddy district were: L. B. Nagar, Gaddi ...