The Aligarh Nagar Nigam (ANN) – also known as Aligarh Municipal Corporation (AMC) – is the civic body that governs

Aligarh Aligarh (; formerly known as Allygarh, and Kol) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Aligarh district, and lies northwest of state capital Lucknow and approximately southeast of the capita ...

city. Established under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act-1959, it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city. The municipal corporation covers an area of . The first mayor of Aligarh elections were held in 1995. As of 2018, Mohammad Furqan from

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is current mayor of Aligarh Municipal Corporation.

History

Aligarh Municipal Board (

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) was established on 1 August 1885. On November 1994 after enactment of Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act 1959, it was further upgraded as Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam).

Objective

AMC work for providing necessary community services like health care, educational institution, housing, transport etc. by collecting property tax and fixed grant from the Finance Commission and

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. Its sources of income are taxes on water, houses, markets, entertainment and vehicles paid by residents of the town and grants from the state government.

Wards

As of 2017, the Aligarh Municipal Corporation's legislature, also known as the Corporation Council, consists of 70 directly elected corporators.

References

{{Aligarh division topics Municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh Aligarh 1994 establishments in Uttar Pradesh

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