Cumilla City Corporation is a self-governed municipal administration in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

that administers and oversees development and maintenance works in the city of Cumilla. The corporation covers an area of over 53.84 square kilometers in the Cumilla District. The body was known as Cumilla Municipality previously, until it obtained the City Corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 10 July 2011. Incumbent Mayor is

Arfanul Haque Rifat Arfanul Haque Rifat is a Bangladeshi Awami League politician who is the incumbent mayor of Comilla City Corporation. Rifat is serving as the general secretary of Comilla city unit Awami League since 2017. Career Rifat joined the Chhatra Leagu ...

History

The Comilla municipality was formed in the mid-1890s and the city remained as a municipality for over 125 years though the number of the population has been rising with time. An administrative proposition, issued from the Comilla district administration, was passed on 20 August 2009. The ministry of local government meeting on 4 March 2011 declared to turn at least four of the populated municipalities into city corporations, largely bringing Comilla as a suggestion as one of the contenders. An administrative move was made on 23 June 2011 abolishing the Comilla Municipality as the final step to introduce the administrative body as a city corporation. Later on 10 July 2011, a ministry gazette named the Comilla Municipality as the new Comilla City Corporation. The city corporation is run by a joint staff of elected public representatives and government officials. Officials both come from departmental recruitment and the administrative cadre service of the

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. The Comilla City Corporation has 37 members, containing 27 councilors, 9 woman councilors led by the mayor.

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is constituted to oversee city corporation polls, which sits in the office for a five-year tenure. The first ever mayoral election of Comilla City Corporation was held on 5 January 2012, Has an area of 200 kilometers, elected the municipality's Monirul Haque Sakku as its new mayor, 27 councilors and 9 woman councilors from 27 wards.

Services

The Comilla City Corporation is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city. * Water purification and supply * Sewage treatment and disposal *

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and street cleanliness *

Solid waste management Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...

* Building and maintenance of roads and streets. *

Street lighting A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution ...

* Maintenance of

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and open spaces *

Cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

and Crematoriums * Registering of births and deaths * Conservation of heritage sites * Disease control, including

immunization Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen). When this system is exposed to molecules that are foreign to the body, called ''non-sel ...

* Public municipal schools etc.

List of officeholders

Elections

Election result 2022

Election result 2017

Election result 2012

References

{{City Corporations of Bangladesh Cumilla City Corporations of Bangladesh Comilla City Corporation