Agartala Municipal Corporation
Agartala Municipal Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | |
Term limits | 5 years |
| Leadership | |
Mayor | |
Deputy Mayor | Manika Das Datta, BJP |
Municipal Commissioner | Vishal Kumar, IAS[2] |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 51 |
 | |
Political groups | Government (51)
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| Elections | |
| First-past-the-post | |
Last election | November 2021 |
Next election | 2026 |
| Meeting place | |
| Agartala, Tripura | |
| Website | |
| agartalacity | |
The Agartala Municipal Corporation or AMC is the municipal body which governs and maintains the city of Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura and is the Second-largest develop city after Guwahati metropolitan in North-east India. Formed in the year 1871 the oldest municipal body in Northeast India, AMC had a vital role in developing & modernizing the state and managing in its various activities. This civic administrative body administers an area of 76.5 km2. AMC is headed by Dipak Majumder the present Mayor of Agartala.
Objective
The Municipal Corporation consists of councillors elected by the residents of the city. The city is divided into municipal wards and each ward elects a councillor to the Council.
The current majority of AMC belongs to the BJP.[3]
The municipal area was 16.012 km2 with a population of 1,89,329 at the 2001 census. The Urban Development Department Notification No.F.2(2)–UDD /2003 dated 2 July 2004 the Agartala Municipal Council has further been extended taking 16 No. of Grams of Dukli R.D.Block, 7 No. of Grams of Mohanpur R.D. Block and 2 No. of Grams of Jirania R.D. Block with an area of 42.83 square kilometers and a population of 178,495.[4] The present municipal building is located near the City center of Agartala location namely Paradise Chowhamani.
| Year | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 54,878 | 3 square miles (8 km2) |
| 1971 | 100,264 | 3 square miles (8 km2) |
| 1981 | 132,186 | 10.94 km2 |
| 1991 | 157,358 | 15.81 km2 |
| 2001 | 188,540 | 16.02 km2 |
| 2004 | 367,822 | 58.84 km2 |
| 2011 | 399,688 | 58.84 km2 (Greater Agartala Planning Area: 512,264 and 92 km2) |
An estimated value of the population of Agartala in each decades as shown here from 1961 along with its size in area.
Members of the Mayor-in-Council
| S.No | Name | Designation | Departments | Party | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dipak Majumdar | Mayor |
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BJP | ||||||
| 2. | Smt. Manika Das Datta | Deputy Mayor |
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BJP | ||||||
| Mayor-in-Council | ||||||||||
| 3. | Hiralal Debnath | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 4. | Tushar Kanti Bhattacharjee | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 5. | Smt. Himani Debbarma | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 6. | Hari Sadhan Debnath | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 7. | Uday Bhaskar Chakraborty | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 8. | Jagadish Das | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 9. | Smt. Sampa Sarkar Sen | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
| 10. | Bapi Das | Member |
|
BJP | ||||||
Current members
Agartala Municipal Corporation has a total of 51 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in November 2021. The current mayor of Agartala is Dipak Majumder of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[5]
| Mayor: Dipak Majumder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deputy Mayor: Manika Das Datta | ||||
| Ward No. | Name of Councillor[6] | Party | Remarks | |
| 1 | Mitra Rani Das | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2 | Sharmistha Bardhan | |||
| 3 | Jagadish Das | |||
| 4 | Suparna Debnath | |||
| 5 | Lata Nath | |||
| 6 | Mithun Das Baishnab | |||
| 7 | Jaya Dhanuk | |||
| 8 | Sampa Sarkar | |||
| 9 | Uttam Kumar Ghosh | |||
| 10 | Soma Majumder | |||
| 11 | Hiralal Debnath | |||
| 12 | Santana Saha | |||
| 13 | Pradip Chanda | |||
| 14 | Snigdha Das | |||
| 15 | Nibas Das | |||
| 16 | Dipak Majumder | |||
| 17 | Shikha Banerjee | |||
| 18 | Abhishek Datta | |||
| 19 | Bhaswati Debbarma | |||
| 20 | Ratna Datta | |||
| 21 | Alak Bhattacharjee | |||
| 22 | Himani Debbarma | |||
| 23 | Manimukta Bhattacharjee | |||
| 24 | Sukhamoy Saha | |||
| 25 | Sima Debnath | |||
| 26 | Shilpi Dewan | |||
| 27 | Subhash Bhowmik | |||
| 28 | Nanda Dulal Debnath | |||
| 29 | Ruma Das | |||
| 30 | Pintu Ranjan Das | |||
| 31 | Anjana Das | |||
| 32 | Shilpi Sen | |||
| 33 | Abhijit Mallik | |||
| 34 | Jahnabai Das Chowdhury | |||
| 35 | Tushar Kanti Bhattacharjee | |||
| 36 | Nitu Dey | |||
| 37 | Bapi Das | |||
| 38 | Anjana Das | |||
| 39 | Alok Roy | |||
| 40 | Sampa Sarkar | |||
| 41 | Abhijit Ghosh | |||
| 42 | Sathi Rudra Paul | |||
| 43 | Manika Das Datta | |||
| 44 | Uday Bhaskar Chakraborty | |||
| 45 | Apu Adya Datta | |||
| 46 | Prasenjit Lodh | |||
| 47 | Minarani Sarkar | |||
| 48 | Sabita Kar | |||
| 49 | Harisadhan Debnath | |||
| 50 | Rinki Das | |||
| 51 | Sushanta Chandra Bhowmik | |||
Election
Date: 25 November 2021
Result: 28 November 2021
Total Seats : 51
Winning Party : BJP with 51 seats.
See also
References
- ↑ "BJP's Deepak Majumder elected as Agartala Municipal Corporation Mayor, Monika das Datta as Deputy Mayor | Welcome to Mantra". Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ↑ "Agartala Municipality Corporation".
- ↑ "Tripura Municipal Election Results 2021 Highlights: Assam CM says BJP's win testimony to popular support for PM Modi's leadership". The Financial Express. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ↑ agartala info
- ↑ "Ruling BJP sweeps Tripura civic polls, wins all 51 seats in Agartala Municipal Corporation". The Print. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ↑ "Current Members of Agartala Municipal Corporation" (PDF). Agartala Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 28 September 2025.