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The historic and iconic Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Building houses the mayor's and deputy mayor's office as well as the City Council (which has 304 members, all of whom are Union Committee Chairman). Due to increased number of members of Karachi's municipal government, and a shortage of space, the City Council passed a resolution for new ...
Union Councils of Karachi are local governments in Karachi. Union Council is the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. Headed by a Union Nazim, each union council has 10 elected members or councilors. In addition to four male and two female members elected directly, there are two male and two female representatives of the labor, a ...
Civic Center, Karachi is the civic center which is the headquarters for the Government of Karachi, Pakistan, and the office for the Mayor of Karachi is located here. Karachi Development Authority, Sindh Building Control Authority offices are also headquartered here. It is situated near Hasan Square, Gulshan-e-Iqbal on the main University Road. [1]
City of York Council is the local authority for the city of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. York has had a city council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1996 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council.
In 2015, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation consisted of 305 members, including 209 general members and chairmen of union committees, and 96 reserved members. [3] The numbers of KMC council members since 1979 is as follows: [4]
Local elections for City of York Council took place on 7 May 2015. New ward boundaries came into effect. [ 26 ] Of the 47 seats contested, Labour won 15 seats to form the largest group on the council, Conservatives won 14 seat, the Liberal Democrats won 12 seats, the Green Party won four seats and two independent candidates won seats. [ 27 ]
Under the LGO of 2001, the Mayor of Karachi had control over city planning, the Karachi Water & Sewage Board (KW&SB), the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA), the Karachi Development Authority, the Karachi Revenue Department and the Karachi Land Registry. The funds for those organizations were also directly accessible to the mayor.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation was abolished in 2000 and five district municipal corporations were merged into City District Karachi. The City District Karachi was divided into 18 town and 178 union councils. In 2011 the Sindh Government restored the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and five district municipal corporations.