- Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation or the AMC, established in July 1950 under the Bombay Provincial Corporation Act, 1949, is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of
Ahmedabad .ervices
As per the section 63 and 66 of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, the AMC is responsible for certain obligatory and discretionary services.
Obligatory services
* Erection of boundary of city defining city limits
* Watering, Scavenging and Cleansing of all public streets and places
* Sewage services
* Drainage services
* Fire services
* Health & Medical services
* Street Lighting services
* Maintenance of a monuments & open spaces
* Identification of streets & houses
* Regulation and abatement of offensive and dangerous trades or practices
* Maintenance of burial houses and funeral homes
* Construction or acquisition of public markets and slaughter houses
* Construction or acquisition of cattle-pounds
* Primary education services
* Health and hygiene services
* Construction, maintenance and alternation of bridges
* Water supply services
* Preventing and checking the spread of dangerous diseases
* The securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places
* Construction of conservancy staff quarters
* Maintenance of relief works in scarcity, floe etcDiscretionary services
* Construction and maintenance of maternity homes & infant welfare houses
* Maintenance of central laboratories
* Swimming pool and other public health services
* Tree plantation on road sides
* Construction and maintenance of public parks and gardens
* The holding of exhibition, athletics or games
* The maintenance of an ambulance services
* Construction and maintenance of theatres, community halls and museums etc.
* Building or purchase of staff quarters
* Construction and maintenance of public transport facilities
* Construction and maintenance of educational institutes
* Construction and maintenance of infirmaries and hospitals
* The destruction of animals and birds causing a nuisance
* Construction and maintenance of factory for the disposal of sewage
* The building or purchase and maintenance of suitable dwellings for the poor and working classes
* Provision of shelter to homeless persons and poor relief
* Surveys of buildings or lands
* Measures to meet any calamity affecting the public in the city any measure to promote public safety, health, convenience or instructionAdministration
The corporation is headed by a Municipal commissioner, an IAS officer appointed by the government of
Gujarat . He wields the executive power of the house. For administrative purposes the city is divided into 5 zones - central, east, west, north and south. Recently in year 2006 the new zone has been formed named NEW WEST ZONE. The area covered in this zone was formerly governed by Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority. Each zone is further divided into 9 wards (with the exception of the south ward which is divided into 7 wards). Each ward is represented by 3 corporators. An election is held to elect corporators to power. Themayor heads the party with the largest number of corporators elected. A largely ceremonial post, he has limited duties.External links
* [http://www.egovamc.com/home.asp Official website of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]
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