Comilla City Corporation

This article is about the municipality. For the city, see Comilla. For the district, see Comilla District.

Comilla City Corporation is a self-governed municipal administration in Bangladesh that administers and oversees development and maintenance works in the city of Comilla. The corporation covers an area of over 33 square kilometer in the Comilla district where over five million people live as permanent residents. The body was known as Comilla Municipality previously, until it obtained the City Corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 10 July, 2011.^[1]

Presently a part of Comilla's Court Road, the photographed street has been once an extension of historic Grand Trunk Road, to communicate with the port facilities of Chittagong.

History

History of the Comilla municipal region dates back to 1790 as a new Tripura district was formed comprising the adjacent areas of today's Comilla district. Upon administrative reforms after the 1947 independence as Pakistan, the district was renamed as Comilla district as the main Tripura district remained in the Indian territory, as the center of today's state of Tripura in India. Today's Brahmanbaria and Chandpur district at that time have been two sub-districts (upazila) of Comilla district.

The Comilla municipality was formed in mid 1890s and the city remained as a municipality for over 125 years though the number of people living in here and the density of population, both have been rising with time.^[2] An administrative proposition, issued from the Comilla district administration, was passed on 20 August, 2009.^[3] A 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Administration

The Election Commission of Bangladesh is yet to collaborate with the ministry of local government to demarcate the ward areas of the city corporation. Each ward will have a councilor. Councilors have to be elected by the voters of the ward constituency. Voters simultaneously will vote for a mayor. The elected mayor and the councilors will form the city cabinet valid for five years.

However city corporation administrations in Bangladesh, meaning the elected cabinet, stays in office until fresh polls elect a new cabinet.^[6]

Election for Comilla City Corporation was said by the election commission to be held in December 2011.^[7]

See also

• Comilla

References

1. ^ Comilla Now A City Corporation, BangladeshFirst.com, 11 July 2011, http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=1679, retrieved 2011-07-11 
2. ^ Comilla Now A City Corporation, BangladeshFirst.com, 11 July 2011, http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=1679, retrieved 2011-07-11 
3. ^ কুমিল্লা সিটি করপোরেশন ঘোষণা: শহরে আনন্দ-উল্লাস, Sheersha News, 11 July 2011, http://www.sheershanews.com/?view=details&data=Travel&news_type_id=1&menu_id=1&news_id=19228, retrieved 2011-07-11 
4. ^ Four new city corporation to be set up, The Daily Star, 4 March 2011, http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=176256, retrieved 2011-07-11 
5. ^ Comilla Now A City Corporation, BangladeshFirst.com, 11 July 2011, http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=1679, retrieved 2011-07-11 
6. ^ ‘Time To Say Goodbye To Khoka’, BangladeshFirst.com, 13 October 2011, http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=2425, retrieved 2011-10-17 
7. ^ Comilla City Polls Likely In December, BangladeshFirst.com, 17 October 2011, http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/newsdetails.php?cid=2&scid=0&nid=2457, retrieved 2011-10-17