Kanpur Municipal Corporation

Kanpur Municipal Corporation is a municipal corporation of Kanpur city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[1] The corporation is the largest in the state of Uttar Pradesh with 110 wards covering area equal to 450 kilometres square.[2][3]

Kanpur Municipal Corporation
कानपुर नगर निगम
Type
Type
Municipal Corporation
of the Kanpur
Leadership
Mayor
Pramila Pandey, BJP
since 2017
Municipal Commissioner
Mr. Akshay Tripathi.
Structure
Political groups
Bharatiya Janata Party
Political groups
Indian National Congress
Elections
Last election
2017
Meeting place
City Hall (KMC Building), Moti Jheel, Kanpur
Website
kmc.up.nic.in

History

The municipality in Kanpur, then Cawnpore was first established on 22 November 1861 under the chairmanship of a District Magistrate. Lala Sheo Prasad was the first Vice Chairman of the association of Cawnpore Municipal Committed. The Town Hall building was erected at Cooperganj in the year 1879 with investment of around 2,16,000 rupees.[4]

The first drainage system was established in 1872 and the first protected water supply in 1892. The city became a municipal corporation in 1959.[5] Ram Ratan Gupta became the first mayor of Kanpur.

Elections

See List of mayors of Kanpur

See also

Kanpur (Mayoral Constituency)

References
  1. "Kanpur municipal corporation::Birth Certificate.Grievance Redressal.online property tax .Civil Work". kmc.up.nic.in. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  2. "Kanpur Ward Map". www.mapsofindia.com. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  3. "Kanpur Municipal Corporation City Population Census 2011-2019 | Uttar Pradesh". www.census2011.co.in. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  4. Drake-Brockman, D. L. "District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: Cawnpore".
  5. "Kanpur". iitk.ac.in. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012.
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