Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality (abbreviated as JMM) is an urban local body of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indianstate of West Bengal. It is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Jaynagar Majilpur. This civic administrative body administers an area of 5.85 km2 (2.26 sq mi). It is divided into 14 administrative wards.[1][2][3][4]
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, was the first chairman of this municipality.[6][7]
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Harananda Vidyasagar (1869–1882)
Haridas Dutta (1882–1886)
Ananda Chandra Ghosh (1886–1900)
Jogindra Nath Mitra (1900–1902)
Biraj Krishna Dutta (1902–1903)
Binoy Krishna Dutta (1903–1904)
Bipin Bihari Dey (1904–1916)
Khetra Nath Mitra (1916–1919)
Nakuleshwar Basu (1919–1924)
Surendra Nath Mitra (1924–1929)
Bhutnath Chakraborty (1929–1935)
Rampada Chatterjee (1935–1936)
Paramananda Dutta (1936–1939)
Sudhir Krishna Dutta (1939–1958)
Birendra Nath Bhattacharya (1958–1959)
Hirendra Nath Mitra (1959–1964)
Sudhir Krishna Dutta (1964–1966)
Prasun Kumar Ghosh (1966–1968)
Monoranjan Dutta (1968–1981)
Prashanta Sarkhel (1981–2002)
Jalal Uddin Khan (2002–2005)
Prashanta Sarkhel (2005–2010)
Farida Begum Shaikh (2010–2015)
Sujit Sarkhel (2015–2022)
Sukumar Halder (2022–Present)
Shibaprasanna Chatterjee (1887–1888)
Kalinath Dutta (1888–1898)
Binoy Krishna Dutta (1898–1900)
Shibaprasanna Chatterjee (1900–1904)
Ramdas Banerjee (1904–1906)
Binoy Krishna Dutta (1906–1908)
Khetra Nath Mitra (1908–1915)
Priyanath Mitra (1915–1917)
Sahayaram Ghosh (1917–1919)
Ramtaran Chatterjee (1919–1924)
Moulabi Anayat Rashul (1924–1929)
Binoy Krishna Bhattacharya (1929–1935)
Debprasad Dutta (1935–1936)
Sushil Gopal Dutta (1936–1939)
Fani Bhusan Dey (1939–1942)
Jnanendra Nath Mitra (1942–1944)
Manindra Nath Basu (1944–1949)
Prafulla Kumar Mitra (1949–1953)
Manindra Nath Basu (1953–1956)
Hirendra Nath Mitra (1956–1968)
Kanailal Pal (1968–1981)
Asit Brahmachari (1981–1986)
Ismail Khan (1986–1990)
Sukumar Mitra (1990–1995)
Nanigopal Mondal (1995–2000)
Jalal Uddin Khan (2000–2002)
Bholanath Sinha (2002–2005)
Mihir Ganguly (2005–2010)
Prabir Baidya (2010–2015)
Tushar Kanti Roy (2015–2022)
Rathin Kumar Mondal (2022–Present)
Structure
The municipality refers to the Board of Councillors, with one Councillor being elected from each of the 14 administrative wards of Jaynagar Majilpur city. The Board of Councillors elects a chairman from among its elected members.[8]
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.[9]
^"Jaynagar Majilpur Municipality". Department of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs. Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
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