Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is the Municipal Corporation for the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. It is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Bhopal. BMC administers an area of 463 km2 (250.29 sq mi). BMC is headed by Kolsani V.S. Choudhary (IAS) as the commissioner and Alok Sharma as the mayor. In August 2014, the corporation became one of India’s first municipal corporations to automate citizen services, working with German software company SAP SE for the purpose.
Overview The total area under BMC is 463 km2 (250.29 sq mi). The city is divided into 85 wards. Each ward elects a corporator. The winning party elects a council of members, who are responsible for various departments. The council members chose the mayor among themselves. At present, there are ten members in the council. The Commissioner of Bhopal is the highest officer of Municipal Corporate Office, which is responsible for the departments of public works, revenue and tax, water supply, planning and development, fire brigade, health and sanitation, finance and accounts etc. The current Municipal Commissioner of Bhopal is Kolsani V.S. Choudhary (IAS) while the current mayor is Alok Sharma.
History Majlis-e-intezamia was the name of first municipal body of Bhopal, which came into being in 1907 in the erstwhile Bhopal State. First city survey was conducted in 1916 after the enactment of Municipal Act. Up to 1956 the area under Bhopal Municipal limit was very small, but after that few more surrounding villages were added to it. The total area under Bhopal municipal limit reached to 71.23 km2 by 1975.
The Municipal Board was constituted for the first time in 1952 with Shri. Abdul Karim Babu Miya as president and Shri. Deendayal as vice-president. Later on the status of Municipal board was upgraded to municipal council & an IAS officer was appointed as Chief Administrator. In 1983, Bhopal Municipal Council got the status of Municipal Corporation, with total 56 wards and Dr. R.K. Bisaria of Congress was elected as the first mayor.
Wards +ZoneWard NumberWard NameAreas CoveredAssembly ConstituencyCouncillorPolitical Group1Mahatma Gandhi WardLaxmanCongress2Airport wardKusum ChaturvediBJP3Bhauri wardKarishma MeenaBJP4Hemu colony wardRajesh HingoraniBJP5Sadhu waswani wardAshokCongress6Mahavir giri wardJyoti YadavBJP7Koh-e-fiza wardPriyanka MishraCongress8Royal market wardRehana SultanCongress9Baag munshi hussain wardNahidCongress10Eidgaah hills wardSarojBJP11Babu jagjivan ram wardAnitaIndependent12Nariyal kheda wardDevendra BhargavaBJP13Geetanjali wardManoj RathoreBJP14Shahjahanabad wardShibaCongress15J.P. nagar wardShailesh SahuBJP16Motilal nehru wardMoh SarvarCongress17Ibrahimganj wardSheetal VermaCongress18Ram mandir wardRaju KushwahaBJP19Lal bahadur shastri wardWasimuddinCongress20Mahavir swami wardPuja SharmaBJP21Jain mandir wardVinita SoniBJP22Moti masjid wardSammer HuzurIndependent23Islampura wardLaeeka BiCongress24Rani kamlapati wardShabistaCongress25Swami Vivekananda WardJagdish YadavBJP26Dr.Ambedkar wardRajmani UikeBJP27Goswami tulsidas wardBinu SaxenaCongress28Rani Awantibai wardKishan SuryavanshiBJP29Maulana abdul kalam azad wardDevanshu KansanaCongress30Kushabhau thakre wardPravin SaxenaCongress31Chhtrapati Shivaji wardBrijula SachanBJP32Jawahar lal nehru wardArti AnejaBJP33Pt. madanmohan malviyaRK SinghBJP34Ravindra nath tagoreVilash GhadgeIndependent35Jahangirabad wardShirin KhanCongress36Chandbad wardGita MaliBJP37Kapdamil wardVandanaBJP38Semra wardGauriBJP39Naveen nagar wardAnand KumarBJP40Aishbagh wardMasarratIndependent41Baag farhat afja wardMoh Sagir Ahmed KhanIndependent42Maharani laxmibai wardAzizuddinCongress43Maharana pratap wardNasim GafoorCongress44Subhash chandra bose wardVimlesh ThakurBJP45Indira gandhi wardShikha GohilIndependent46Pt. Ravishankar shuklYogendra (Guddu)Congress47Dr Rajendra prasad wardGirja KhatikBJP48Arera colony wardArvind VermaBJP49Asha niketan wardBabulal YadavBJP50Gulmohar wardSushma BabishaBJP51Shahpura wardSnehlata RaghuvansiBJP52Misraud wardSheela PatidarBJP53Jaatkhedi wardPratap WareBJP54Barkatullah wardIItendra ShuklaBJP55Bag mugaliya wardArchna ParmarBJP56Barkheda pathani wardNeeraj SinghBJP57Saket shakti wardSurendra VadikaBJP58Kasturba wardRakesh YadavBJP59Barkheda BHEL wardAnitaBJP60Govindpura wardB Shakti RaoBJP61Khajuri kala wardMadhu ShivnaniBJP62Hatai kheda wardRakesh ChaukseBJP63Gautam buddha wardShivlal MakoriaBJP64Sonagiri wardChhaya ThakurBJP65Govindpura Audhogik kshetra wardShiromani SharmaBJP66Narela shankri wardJitendra ThakurCongress67Indrapuri wardMamta BaiBJP68Ayodhya nagar wardUrmila MauryaBJP69Guru nanak dev wardSuryakant GuptaBJP70Punjabi baag wardAshok VaniBJP71Dusshera maidan ashoka garden wardShradha DubeyBJP72Rajiv gandhi wardVikash PatelBJP73Bhopal Memorial Aspataal wardRaju RathoreBJP74Bhanpur wardShakun SinghBJP75Badbai wardRita VishwakarmaBJP76Chhola wardSrikant RaiBJP77Rusalli wardDanish KhanCongress78Karond wardMoh RiazCongress79Navibag wardAnju RajputBJP80Sarvadharm kolar wardSunita BhadoriaBJP81Kanhakunj wardBabita DongareBJP82Danish kunj wardJyoti MishraBJP83Sankhedi wardRavindra YatiBJP84Ratanpur sadak wardShobhana MaranBJP85Katara wardRuma RajputBJP
Elections 2022 election S.No. Party name Party flag or symbol Number of corporators 01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 58 02 Indian National Congress (INC) 21 03 Independents 06
2015 election S.No. Party name Party flag or symbol Number of corporators 01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 55 02 Indian National Congress (INC) 26 03 Independents 04
Departments Public Works Revenue & Tax Heritage Cell Garden Public Relation Water Supply Planning & Development General Administration Fire Services Health & Sanitation Finance e-Governance
Revenue sources The following are the Income sources for the Corporation from the Central and State Government.
Revenue from taxes Following is the Tax related revenue for the corporation.
Property tax. Profession tax. Entertainment tax. Grants from Central and State Government like Goods and Services Tax. Advertisement tax.
Revenue from non-tax sources
Following is the Non Tax related revenue for the corporation.
Water usage charges. Fees from Documentation services. Rent received from municipal property. Funds from municipal bonds.
See also
List of municipal corporations in India
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