Nabadwip Municipality is the self-governing and urban local body of the town Nabadwip of Nadia district of the Indian state West Bengal. It is a registered government organisation. The primary and main objective of Nabadwip Municipality is to provide all municipal facilities to all of the citizens.
History As per the Town Development Act, 1850, town committees were being founded in various towns. Nadia Town Committee was established in 1 April 1869 as per the Bengal Municipal Improvement Act, 1864. Election process was started in 1876. At that time, 8 of the 12 members were elected by the tax-payers and rest 4's were nominated. The fist meeting was held in the house of Late Gurudas Das in 1869. Eleven members along with two British men were present at that meeting. They were:
Mr. Tuidy Mr. Sabi Madhabchandra Vidyaratna Prankrishna Bhatta Krishnakanta Shirratna Ramnath Tarkasiddhanta Laxmikanta Bhattacharya Prasanna Chandra Tarkaratna Shrikrsihna Bandyopadhyay Khsetranath Bhattacharya Gopalchandra Chattopadhyay
Initially, after the establishment in 1869, the name of the Nadia Town Committee was changed to Nadia Municipal Committee in 1877. Later in 1915, the municipal committee was awarded to municipality status and the name was finally set to Nabadwip Municipality.
List of Chairman and Vice-chairman List of ChairmenList of Vice-chairmen Mr. Tuidy from 01.04.1869 Mr. D G Taylor from 03.01.1883 Narahari Mukhopadhyay from 23.01.1885 Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 01.02.1894 Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 29.03.1896 Narahari Mukhopadhyay from 08.01.1899 Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 21.06.1899 Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 21.08.1900 Jagneshwar Bhattacharya from 04.01.1902 Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 23.08.1903 Administrator from 19.02.1903 ★ ★ ★ ★ Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 09.01.1905 Satinath Mukherjee until 02.07.1921 Arunchandra Chatterjee from 03.07.1921 Debendranath Bagchi from 24.06.1922 Purnachandra Mukherjee from 24.03.1923 Janaranjan Mukherjee from 18.10.1924 ★ ★ ★ ★ Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 27.10.1932 Rampada Chatterjee from 26.08.1939 Shailendranath Goswami from 28.09.1940 Dwijendralal Chatterjee from 03.05.1941 Nimaichand Goswami from 26.09.1942 Jitendranath Bagchi from 21.12.1945 Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 11.12.1946 । Shachindramohan Nandi from 26.08.1947 Tinkari Bagchi from 24.11.1951 Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 28.06.1952 Shachindramohan Nandi from 18.05.1956 Administrator from 30.05.1969 Bhairab Sharana Chattopadhyay from 30.12.1969 Administrator from 28.12.1971 Biswanath Mitra from 19.07.1981 Amarendranath Bagchi from 05.07.1990 Balai Pal from 18.08.1997 Radharaman Saha from 23.06.2000 Jibankrishna Saha from 30.05.2001 Pundarikakshya Saha from 21.06.2005 Bimankrishna Saha from 09.09.2009 Administrator from 2020 Bimankrishna Saha from 02.03.2022 Administrator from 03.07.2026 Mr. Sabi from 01.04.1869 Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 01.04.1879 Dinanath Bhattacharya from 14.04.1881 Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 18.03.1882 Anandamoy Ray from 23.10.1884 Dinanath Bhattacharya from 23.01.1885 Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 29.10.1888 Panchanan Mukhopadhyay 01.02.1894 Binondlal Goswami 06.05.1897 Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 30.01.1898 Panchanan Mukhopadhyay from 24.05.1900 Binodbihari Goswami from 25.08.1900 Jagneshwar Bhattacharya 13.07.1902 Benimadhab Bhattacharya 18.10.1902 ★ ★ ★ ★ Ramdas Mukhopadhyay from 23.08.1903 Administrator from 19.12.1903 Ramdas Mukherjee from 09.01.1905 ★ ★ ★ Janaranjan Ray from 01.09.1922 Ramnarayan Chatterjee from 02.09.1922 Janaranjan Ray from 15.11.1922 Sadananda Bhattacharya from 18.10.1924 ★ ★ ★ ★ Binaykrishna Mukherjee from 27.10.1932 Kalidas Chakraborty from 17.09.1936 Niranjan Modak from 26.08.1939 Bijan Kumar Mukherjee from 03.05.1941 Ganapati Mukherjee from 26.09.1942 Anukul Chandra Bhattacharya from 25.08.1943 Kumaresh Chandra Singharay from 26.08.1943 Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 22.12.1945 Shyamapada Bhattacharya from 26.08.1947 Binaybhushan Mitra from 08.03.1950 Bhabanishankar Gupta from 24.11.1951 Binaybhushan Mitra from 18.06.1952 Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 15.04.1954 Shankaricharan Chatterjee from 1805.1956 Aurobinda Ghosh from 16.05.1961 Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 03.01.1964 Administrator from 30.05.1969 Jagajiban Goswami from 03.12.1969 Administrator from 28.12.1971 Amarendra Bagchi from 01.07.1981 Gour Das 05.07.1990 Ajay Singha 20.08.1997 Jibankrishna Saha 23.06.2000 Tusharkanti Bhattacharya from 30.05.2001 Shachindra Basak from 2015 Administrator from 2020 Sachindra Basak from 02.03.2022 to 18.06.2026 vacant since 18.06.2026 ★ ★ No records have been found from 20.05.1905 - 10.09.1920, 08.11.1924 - 26.10.1932 and 16.06.1934 - 17.09.1939. It is found at page no. 47 of the Centenary Memorial Magazine of Nabadwip Hindu School that, Sadanada Bhattacharya was the chairman of Nabadwip Municipality from 1927 to 1932. The chairman of Nabadwip Municipality was Narayan Chandra Banerjee from 1919.
The election was to held in April or May, 2020 and the previous chairman and vice-chairman was to be valid till then. But due to COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, this process was paused.
Subsequent Municipal Election was held on 27 February, 2022 and result was declared on 2 March, 2022.
After the Chairman was arrested by Police on 30 May, 2026, administrative unrest happened. The Vice-chairman resigned from his position on 18 June, 2026. Subsequently, 3 councillors and later on 3 July, 18 more councillors resigned from their position, making the municipal board dissolved. On 3 July 2026, administrator was appointed to take charge of the proceedings of the Municipality, until the next election.
Departments Serial No.Divisions1General administration2Collection3Public works department (PWD)4Water Supply5Public health 6Electricity7Education8Finance9Warehouse
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