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Asansol Municipal Corporation

Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) (আসানসোল পৌরনিগম) is the civic body that governs Asansol in Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.

Asansol Municipal Corporation

আসানসোল পৌরনিগম
Logo of the Asansol Municipal Corporation
Seal of the Asansol Municipal Corporation
Type
Type
Term limits
5 years
History
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Leadership
Mayor
Bidhan Upadhyay, AITC
since 19 February 2022
Deputy Mayor
Abhijeet Ghatak, AITC
since 19 February 2022
Deputy Mayor
Wasim Ul Haque, AITC
since 19 February 2022
Chairperson
Amarnath Chatterjee, AITC
since 19 February 2022
Structure
Seats106
Political groups
Government (92)
  AITC(92)

Opposition (14)

  BJP(6)
  INC(3)
  CPI(M)(2)
  CPI(1)
  JD(U)(1)
  IND: 1
Elections
First past the post
Last election
12 February 2022
Next election
February 2027
Meeting place
Headquarters of the Asansol Municipal Corporation
Website
asansolmunicipalcorporation.net

History

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Union Committees were established in Asansol, Raniganj, Katwa and Kalna, according to a notification issued on 29 October 1850. These Union Committees carried out the functions of municipalities. Asensole (now Asansol) Municipality was established on 1 July 1885, according to a notification dated 23 April 1885.[1] Initially, the municipality covered the Railway Colony, the English area, Budhdanga village, Bastin’s Bazar, Pucca Bazar, Munshi Bazar, and Talpukur Chati areas. The first committee was formed with seven government officials as ex-officio members and twelve nominated members.[2]

Over the years, Asansol experienced considerable growth due to coal mining, railway development, and the establishment of IISCO’s steel plant at Burnpur. Asansol municipal corporation was formed in 1994, with the addition of Burnpur Notified Area Authority, some rural parts of Asansol community development block, and some colliery areas.[3]

According to the Kolkata Gazette notification of 3 June 2015, the municipal areas of Kulti, Raniganj and Jamuria were included within the jurisdiction of Asansol Municipal Corporation.[4] As of now, Asansol Municipal Corporation administers an area of 326 km2 (126 sq mi).[5]

Geography

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The mouzas included in Asansol Municipal Corporation, as per 2015 Gazette notification, were as follows:[4]

 
The Asansol Municipal Corporation Jurisdiction Map
  • Jamuria: Jhila, Shibpur, Nandi, Damodarpur, Jamuria, Kaithi, Pariharpur, Sripur, Kundlia, Joba, Khokula, Ninga, Chanda, Bogra, Banali, Mithapur, Satgram, Katagora, Bijpur, Balanpur, Mandalpur, Ikra, Sekpur, Mamudpur and Sarthakpur.[4]
  • Raniganj: Raniganj, Searsole, Amrasota, Ronal, Kumar Bazar and Mangalpur.[4]
  • Kulti: Debipur, Duburdi, Indkata, Damagoria, Jamaldi, Chanpatria, Digari, Sabanpur, Baria, Lalbazar, Ramnagar, Manberia, Balitora, Kendua, Petna, Kulti, Lachmanpur, Rampur, Calbalpur, Dedi, Kultora, Pupuri, Badirachak, Mahutdi, Shipur, Kuldi, Namagarapara, Gangutia, Raydi, Barakar, Chungaria, Mahatadi, Boldi, Narayanchak, Hatinal, Para, Jasaldi, Sanctoria, Dishergarh, Shitalpur, Manoharchak, Chota Demua, Sodepur, Radhanagar, Asanbani, Bhanrra, Kalikapur, Sitarampur, Belrui, Lachipur, Kumardiha, Neamatpur, Bamundiha, Alladi, Mithani, Kamalpur, Henrelgaria, Bejdi, Paidi and Chinakuri.[4]

Amongst the collieries in Asansol Municipal Corporation are: Damra, Ajay Second, Khusadanga, Girmint, Kakor Danga, C.M. Ghushik, 3 No. Ghushik, Mohishila Hattola, Narshamuda, Dhemomain and K.D. Sim.[3]

Demographics

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The 2011 Census of India was carried out well before the reorganisation of Asansol Municipal Corporation in 2015. Census data for the area, which is part of Asansol Municipal Corporation since 2015, is given below:[6]

Name Total Population Male Population % of Total Female Population % of Total Population above 6 years Total Literates Literates as % of Population above 6 years
Asansol municipal corporation 563,917 52% 48% 503,734 419,591 83.30%
Jamuria municipality 145,276 52% 48% 126,278 90,854 71.95%
Raniganj municipality 129,441 52% 48% 113,720 88,299 77.65%
Kulti municipality 313,809 52% 48% 278,424 209,952 75.41%
Total 1,152,443 52% 48% 1,022,156 808,696 79.12%

Asansol urban agglomeration

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Asansol UA historic population growth
YearPop.±%
190130,747—    
191137,416+21.7%
192141,035+9.7%
193164,973+58.3%
1941121,508+87.0%
1951182,104+49.9%
1961286,539+57.3%
1971370,800+29.4%
1981628,991+69.6%
1991938,067+49.1%
20011,067,369+13.8%
20111,243,414+16.5%
Source: Census of India[7]

As of the 2011 census, the urban agglomeration (UA) centred upon Asansol had a population of 1,243,414. In addition to the erstwhile municipalities of Kulti, Jamuria, and Raniganj subsequently incorporated into the AMC, the agglomeration included the census towns of Amkula, Baktarnagar, Ballavpur, Bhanowara, Domohani, Egara, Jemari, Majiara, Murgathaul, Raghunathchak, Sahebganj and Topsi, and also Charanpur, an outgrowth of Jamuria.

This urban agglomeration was rated the second most populous in West Bengal (after Kolkata), and the 39th most populous in India.[7] The expanding Asansol UA has been listed by a European research institute as the eleventh fastest growing urban area in India, and the 42nd fastest growing in the world.[8]

Elections

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All India Trinamool Congress swept the first election after expansion of Asansol Municipal Corporation, held in 2015.[9]

Boroughs

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Borough No Location Wards Name of Chairman Party
1 Jamuria 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
2 Raniganj 32,33,34,35,36,37,88,89,90,91,92,93 Mozammil Hussain TMC
3 Railpar, Asansol 13,14,15,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
4 Sukanta Maidan,SB Gorai Road, Asansol 40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49
5 BNR More, G.T. Road 20,21,22,23,50,51,52,53,54,55,76
6 Kalipahari 38,39,80,82,83,84,85,86,87
7 Tribeni More, Burnpur 56,57,75,77,78,709,81,94,95,96,97,98,106
8 Kulti 16,18,19,58,59,60,61,73,74,99
9 Kulti 67,69,72,100,101,102,103,104,105
10 Kulti 17,62,63,64,65,66,68,70,71

Wards

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Details of wards are as follows:[10][11]

Ward No Vidhan Sabha Police Station Neighbourhood1 Total Electors Seat Type Councillor Party
1 Jamuria Jamuria Nandi 8,372 None Mridul Chakraborty AITC
2 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 9,256 Women Shrabani Mandal AITC
3 Jamuria Jamuria Sripur 8,689 None Abdul House AITC
4 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 10,157 None Sk Sandar AITC
5 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 8,764 Women Bandana Ruidas AITC
6 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 10,006 None Sanjoy Kumar Banerjee AITC
7 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 9,346 SC Susmita Bauri AITC
8 Jamuria Jamuria Satgram 9,355 None Subrata Adhikary AITC
9 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 7,804 SC Women Baishakhi Bauri AITC
10 Jamuria Jamuria Sripur 8,711 Women Usha Paswan AITC
11 Jamuria Jamuria Sripur 8,219 None Md Arif Ali AITC
12 Jamuria Jamuria Sripur 8,498 None Samarjit Goswami AITC
13 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Dhadka 9,537 Women Rina Mukherjee AITC
14 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Majiara 10,540 None Utpal Singha AITC
15 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Kalla 9,801 None Shyam Saren AITC
16 Kulti Kulti Debipur 7,122 Women Moonmoon Mukherjee AITC
17 Kulti Kulti Boria 9,682 SC Lalan Mehra BJP
18 Kulti Kulti Sitarampur 8,243 None Amit Kumar Tulsyan BJP
19 Kulti Kulti Neamatpur 8,101 SC Usha Kumari Rajak AITC
20 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Kanyapur 7,258 None Arjun Maji AITC
21 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Kalyanpur Housing Estate 8,492 Women Shraboni Mondal AITC
22 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Kalyanpur Housing Estate 9,061 None Anirban Das AITC
23 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Kalyanpur Housing Estate 8,198 None CK Reshma Ramakrishnan AITC
24 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Quraishi Mahalla 10,732 Women Fansabi Begum AITC
25 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Quraishi Mahalla 13,991 None SM Mustafa INC
26 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 10,312 None Md Wasimul Haque AITC
27 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 7,721 Women Chaitali Tiwari BJP
28 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 7,551 None Ghulam Sarwar INC
29 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 7,035 None Gourab Gupta BJP
30 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 9,167 SC Women Gopa Roy AITC
31 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Railpar 7,894 Women Asha Prasad AITC
32 Jamuria Jamuria Jamuria Hat 6,795 SC Bhola Kumar Hela AITC
33 Raniganj Raniganj Searsole 8,649 None Naran Bauri CPI(M)
34 Raniganj Raniganj Searsole 11,583 None Ranjit Singh AITC
35 Raniganj Raniganj Ronai Haji Para 9,014 Women Akhtari Khatoon AITC
36 Raniganj Raniganj Searsole 9,816 SC Dibyendu Bhakat AITC
37 Raniganj Raniganj Damoda Colliery 8,290 None Rupesh Kumar Yadav AITC
38 Asansol Dakshin Asansol North Ushagram 8,823 ST Women Meena Kumari Hansda AITC
39 Asansol Dakshin Asansol North Ushagram 8,664 None Jyoti Sankar Karmakar AITC
40 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Ushagram 8,209 Women Moumita Biswas AITC
41 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Nuruddin Road 8,858 Women Ranbir Singh Bharara AITC
42 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Old Hospital 8,800 None Dr Amitava Basu AITC
43 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Old Hospital 9,116 Women Amna Khatoon CPI(M)
44 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Subdivisional Hospital 7,118 None Amarnath Chatterjee AITC
45 Asansol Uttar Asansol North Asansol Village 6,677 None Utpal Ray AITC
46 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Hutton Road 7,642 Women Shikha Ghatak AITC
47 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Master Para 8,405 None Rajesh Tiwari AITC
48 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Budha 8,823 None Gurudas Chatterjee AITC
49 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Chelidanga 8,182 Women Shampa Dawn AITC
50 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Chelidanga, Hill View Park 8,745 None Abhijit Ghatak AITC
51 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Sree Pally 8,055 None Ananta Majumdar AITC
52 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Court Morh 6,483 Women Mousumi Bose AITC
53 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Burnpur Road Morh 7,083 None Tapan Banerjee AITC
54 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Sarada Pally Road 7,099 SC Dilip Baral AITC
55 Asansol Uttar Asansol South Gopalpur New Colony 9,357 None Dipa Chakraborty AITC
56 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Rabindranagar 9,443 Women Shrabani Biswas AITC
57 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Narsamuda 11,437 SC Samit Maji AITC
58 Kulti Asansol South Dhemo Main Colliery 9,068 None Sanjay Nonia AITC
59 Kulti Kulti Neamatpur 11,552 None Md Zakir Hussain INC
60 Kulti Kulti Neamatpur 8,942 Women Indrani Mishra AITC
61 Kulti Kulti Neamatpur 8,536 None Adinath Puitandi AITC
62 Kulti Kulti Upper Kulti 8,807 None Khoma Mondal AITC
63 Kulti Kulti Upper Kulti 88,51 None Md Salim Akhtar Ansari AITC
64 Kulti Kulti Kulti Town 8,636 Women Poonam Devi AITC
65 Kulti Kulti Upper Kulti 8,997 None Nadim Akhtar IND
66 Kulti Kulti Barakar 9,885 None Ashok Kumar Paswan AITC
67 Kulti Kulti Barakar 8,029 Women Tumpa Chowdhary IND
68 Kulti Kulti Barakar 8,333 None Radha Singh IND
69 Kulti Kulti Barakar 9,234 None Sushanta Mandal BJP
70 Kulti Kulti Kendwa 8,824 SC Wakil Das AITC
71 Kulti Kulti Simulgram 7,963 Women Satabdi Bhandari AITC
72 Kulti Kulti Gangutia 11,040 SC Chaitanya Majhi AITC
73 Kulti Kulti Bejdih Colliery 8,163 SC Women Sunita Bauri AITC
74 Kulti Kulti Mithani 8,135 None Ujjal Chatterjee AITC
75 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Chhotodighari, New Town 8,660 None Kanchan Mukherjee AITC
76 Asansol Uttar Hirapur Bidhan Pally, Hill View Park 9,731 Women Babita Das AITC
77 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Narsighbandh 11,643 None Gurmit Singh AITC
78 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Burnpur 6,950 None Ashok Rudra AITC
79 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Subhaspally 7,099 Women Sima Mondal AITC
80 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Santinagar, Puraniya Talao 8,733 None Rakesh Sharma AITC
81 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Puranahat 8,751 None Sona Gupta AITC
82 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Rahmatnagar 10,079 Women Nargis Bano Begum AITC
83 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Mohisila Colony 10,523 None Md Hasratullah AITC
84 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Ismail 9,586 None Dr Debashish Sarkar AITC
85 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Mohisila Colony 11,718 Women Kalyani Ray AITC
86 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Talkuri 9,414 None Manas Das AITC
87 Asansol Dakshin Asansol South Damra 8,191 None Tarun Chakraborty AITC
88 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 10,064 Women Neha Shaw AITC
89 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 9,434 None Md Mozammil Hussain AITC
90 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 6,276 SC Shakti Ruidas AITC
91 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 10,325 None Raju Singh AITC
92 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 5,937 Women Shyama Upadhyay AITC
93 Raniganj Raniganj Raniganj Town 11,057 None Alok Bose AITC
94 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Kalajharia 7,443 ST Ganesh Orang AITC
95 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Riverside Township 12,452 SC Sandhya Das AITC
96 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Burnpur Town, Hirapur Village 10,390 SC Shibananda Bauri AITC
97 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Purushattompur, Kuilapur 6,813 None Anup Maji AITC
98 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Dharampur, Suryanagar, Dihika 9,927 Women Kahkashan Reyaz AITC
99 Kulti Hirapur Bidyanandapur 7,452 ST Rabilal Hembram AITC
100 Kulti Kulti Chinakuri 10,680 None Haldar Karmakar AITC
101 Kulti Kulti Chhoto Dhemo 9,416 ST Women Sabita Tudu AITC
102 Kulti Kulti Radhanagar 9,987 None Sourav Maji AITC
103 Kulti Kulti Dishergarh(Hatinol, Rokta, Josaidi Villages) 7,027 SC Tarak Nath Dhibar AITC
104 Kulti Kulti Dishergarh(Sanctoria Village) 8,878 SC Anjan Mondal AITC
105 Kulti Kulti Dishergarh Village and Town 9,544 Women Indrani Acharya BJP
106 Asansol Dakshin Hirapur Hirapur Village, Shamdi 6,134 None Akshay Ghosh AITC

1 This is a broad indication of the neighbourhood covered, not a full description

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "পাতা:গবর্ণমেণ্ট্‌ গেজেট্‌ (মার্চ) ১৮৮৬.PDF/৩৪০ - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার".
  2. ^ Chattopadhyay, Akkori, Bardhaman Jelar Itihas O Lok Sanskriti (History and Folk lore of Bardhaman District.), (in Bengali), Vol I, page 380, 2001, Radical Impression. ISBN 81-85459-36-3
  3. ^ a b "Asansol Municipal Corporation". About Asansol Municipal Corporation. AMC. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e "The Kolkata Gazette" (PDF). Notification No. 335/MA/O/C-4/1M-36/2014 dated 3 June 2015. Department of Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Asansol City".
  6. ^ "2011 Census - Primary Census Abstract Data Tables". West Bengal – District-wise. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  7. ^ a b "A-4 Towns and Urban Agglomerations classified by population size class in 2011". censusindia.gov.in. Government of India. 16 September 2006.
  8. ^ "World's fastest growing urban areas". www.citymayors.com. City Mayors Foundation. 17 July 2017.
  9. ^ "TMC sweeps Bengal civic body elections". The Indian Express, 11 October 2015. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Asansol Municipal Corporation". Who’s Who – Councillors List. AMC. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Municipal General Election Results". Asansol Municipal Elections, 2015. West Bengal State Election Commission. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

 

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