Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality (abbreviated as JMM) is an urban local body of the

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district in the

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. It is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of

Jaynagar Majilpur Jaynagar Majilpur () is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated in the southern suburbs of Kolkata. As an urban setup in the vicinity of Kolkata, the town is within the ar ...

. This civic administrative body administers an area of . It is divided into 14 administrative wards.

Geography

Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality is on the

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. It is located at and has an average elevation of .Google maps

History

As per the ''Town Development Act 1850'', Jaynagar Town Committee was established. It was responsible for the statutory planning and development of greater Jaynagar. According to the ''Bengal Municipal Improvement Act 1864'', the town committee was awarded to municipality status and the name was finally set to Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality on 1 April 1869. It is one of the oldest municipalities in India. Harananda Vidyasagar, the father of the famous philosopher

Sivanath Sastri Sivanath Shastri or Sibanath Sastri (31 January 1848 – 30 September 1919) was a Bengali social reformer, writer, translator, scholar, editor philoshoper and historian.সুবোধচন্দ্র সেনগুপ্ত ও অঞ্জ ...

, was the first chairman of this municipality.

Structure

The municipality refers to the Board of Councillors, with one Councillor being elected from each of the 14 administrative wards of

city. The Board of Councillors elects a chairman from among its elected members. According to the ''West Bengal Municipal Act 1993'', Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality is run by the Chairman-in-Council system of governance and consists of the chairman, Vice Chairman and chief executive officer. The Chairman is the executive head of the municipality and the municipal administration is under his control. The Chairman nominates the Chairman-in-Council and distributes the various functions of the municipality. The Chairman presides over the meetings of the Chairman-in-Council as well as the Board of Councillors and in his absence the Vice Chairman chairs the meetings. The administrative functions of the municipalities are dealt through the committees and are headed by the Chairman-in-Council.

Election

According to the 2022 municipal election, Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality is currently under the control of the

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

. In that municipal election, the

won in 12 wards out of the total 14 wards of Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality. Besides,

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and

Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre", is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibda ...

won in the other 2 wards.

Department

Service

The Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city. * Water purification and supply * Sewage treatment and disposal *

Garbage disposal A garbage disposal unit (also known as a waste disposal unit, garbage disposer, garburator etc.) is a device, usually electrically powered, installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap. The disposal unit shreds food was ...

and street cleanliness * Food Inspection: Through JMM Food Inspectors *

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, streets and flyovers *

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

parks A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

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

immunisation 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.

References

External links

* {{South 24 Parganas topics Municipalities of West Bengal 1869 establishments in British India Government of Jaynagar Majilpur