Mymensingh City Corporation

Mymensingh City Corporation is the municipal government of the city of Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The city is located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of Dhaka, the capital of the country.[1]

Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC)
ময়মনসিংহ সিটি কর্পোরেশন
City Corporation Logo
FormationApril 2, 2018 (2018-04-02)
TypeCity Corporation
HeadquartersMoha Nagar Bhaban
Official language
Bengali
Ekramul Haque Titu
Websitewww.mcc.gov.bd

Mymensingh Municipality was upgraded to a city corporation, the country's 12th, on 2 April 2018 at a meeting of the National Implementation Committee on Administrative Reforms (NICAR), after satisfying all eight criteria for forming a city corporation. At the time, Cabinet Division Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) NM Ziaul Alam declared that the new city corporation would consist of Mymensingh Municipality, two whole union parishads, and parts of six others, out of the thirteen union parishads of Mymensingh Sadar Upazila. Mymensingh Municipality had an estimated 2018 population of 471,858 in an area of 91.315 square kilometres (35.257 sq mi).[2]

Mymensingh city corporation office

History

In September 2011, the Mymensingh Zila Nagorik Andolon campaigned to turn Mymensingh into the divisional capital and a city corporation.[3][4] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced plans to turn Mymensingh into a city corporation in January 2013.[5] Mymensingh city was made the capital of the newly formed Mymensingh division, which was the 8th division of Bangladesh.[6][7] On 20 November 2017 the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation decided to make Mymensingh into a city corporation.[8][9] The incumbent mayor is the Municipality Mayor Ekramul Haque Titu. Mymensingh has not held an election since being turned into a city corporation.[10]

References
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  6. "Mymensingh declared 8th division". Business News 24 BD. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  7. "Mymensingh now a division". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  8. "Mymensingh Municipality to turn into city corporation". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  9. "Govt to create 10 police stations, another upazila". The Daily Star. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  10. "AL to warm up with 7 city polls". The Daily Star. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
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