Mangalore City Corporation
The Mangalore City Corporation bears the responsibility of looking after the administration of Mangalore. The City Corporation consists of one executive body and a legislative body. Legislative body of the Mangalore City Corporation is headed by city mayor and the executive body is headed by Chief Commissioner. Gulzar Banu is the mayor in office of the Mangalore City Corporation and Amitakala is Deputy Mayor of the Mangalore City Corporation.
The City Corporation of Mangalore is the main municipal corporation that is in charge of various infrastructural and civic assets of Mangalore city. The limits of Mangalore City Corporation begin with the place called Mukka towards the north to the bridge of the Netravati River towards the south. Western shore of the Arabian Sea to a place called Vamanjoor towards the east. The council of the Mangalore City Corporation consists of 60 representatives that have been elected and they are called Corporators. One corporator each has been elected from the sixty wards that the city comprises. Mayor of the Mangalore City Corporation is the corporator belonging to majority party. Mangalore City Corporation headquarters are located at Lalbagh and the sub-offices of the corporation are located at Bikarnakatta and Surathkal.
The corporation is spread over an area of 73.71 square kilometers. Mangalore City Corporation contributed 2 members to Lok Sabha, 1 for the city’s southern part which comes under the Mangalore Lok Sabha Constituency and the other for the northern part of Mangalore that fell under Udupi Lok Sabha Constituency, until the Legislative Constituency and Lok Sabha Constituency were revised by means of Delimitation commission. Mangalore also sent three members to Karnataka State Legislative Assembly before the revision took place. After the revision, the entire Taluk of Mangalore now falls under Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha Constituency which has resulted in Mangalore making a contribution of just one Member of Parliament.
Dakshina Kannada Police Department
Dakshina Kannada Police bears the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the city of Mangalore. Commissioner of Police heads the Dakshina Kannada Police Department. Mangalore also serves as the headquarters of the Western Range Police that covers the districts located towards the west of Karnataka. The Western range Police is administered by Inspector General of Police.History of Mangalore City Corporation
It was by the Madras Town Improvement Act in 1865 that the city of Mangalore was included under the Municipal Administration and thereafter Municipal Council of Mangalore was established on 23rd May 1866. Before the introduction of the system of local self-government, district collector used to be the in-charge of the city’s administration. The first President of Mangalore Municipal Council was W.M. Codelho Esq. who was also the then collector of Mangalore district.The deliberations and the functions pertaining to the municipality were all conducted in the office of the collector until 22nd February 1909. Thereafter office of the municipal was transferred to its very own building. The council started functioning initially with just seven members who also held the position of district officers. Most of the members of the municipal council were Europeans. Administrative officer also served as the Vice-President of the council. The municipality income was around Rs.15000. The area and the population of the entire town in 1866 were 28000 and one square mile. In 1868, a dispensary came into being for the first time at the location of the Lady Goschen Hospital.
A large number of welfare activities were facilitated due to the legislation that took place under Madras Presidency and the local administration was empowered because of this. The municipal council of Mangalore became city municipality by the Mysore Municipalities Act of 1964 that replaced the Madras District Municipalities Act of 1920. There were ample number of opportunities included in this act in order to bring about an increase in the income of the municipality and at the same time to ensure that some obligatory functions are carried out in the proper manner.
Mangalore City Corporation was established on 3rd July 1980 which formerly worked like a municipality. The City Corporation of Mangalore was further extended during the years 1996 and 1997 by way of including the Notified Area of Katipalla, the Town Municipality of Surathkal and the Baikampady, Panambur, Hosabettu and Kulai Villages. Further in April 2002, the City Corporation of Mangalore was again extended by including the Kannuru, Thiruvail, Bajal and Kudupu Panchayat limits.
The present population of Mangalore City Corporation is 600,000. The City Corporations falls under the division of four Legislative Assembly Constituencies, One Legislative Council Constituency and two Loksabha Constituencies.
The Mangalore City Corporation has always been upgraded and it has also carried out several development activities in Mangalore since its inception and it is only because of this reason that the Mangalore City Corporation is considered to be the best Corporation in Karnataka for three continuous years.
Contact Details of the Mangalore City Corporation
Mangalore City Corporation, Lalbagh Road, Mangalore -575003, Karnataka State, IndiaTelephone: 0824-2220310(commissioner)
0824-2220301(mayor)
Fax: 0824-2220309
Helpline: 0824-2220306(pgr)
Web: www.mangalorecity.gov.in
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Other Utilities and Services in Mangalore
Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited
The power supply of Mangalore is handled by Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited that is KPTCL and it is distributed through Mangalore Electiricity Supply Company that is MESCOM. Mangalore experiences unscheduled and scheduled power cuts that are very frequent during the summer season because of excess demands in consumption of power. The most important industries of Mangalore namely Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers or MCF and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals or MRPL possess power plants that are operated by the companies and do not require the power supply from Mangalore Electiricity Supply Company.
Potable water in Mangalore is supplied through Mangalore City Corporation. Water is Mangalore comes from the dam that has been constructed across Netravati River located at Thambe which is a place that lies at a distance of 14 kilometers from Mangalore. The Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project or KUDCEMP are aimed towards improvising the supply systems of safe water and also to bring about a reduction in the losses and leakages that are found within the water distribution system followed in Mangalore.
Vamanjoor serves as the official ground for dumping garbage in Mangalore. 175 tons of waste is generated per day in Mangalore and this waste is responsibly handled and taken care of by the Health Department of Mangalore City Corporation. Mangalore City Corporation has also developed and maintained many public parks like Kadri Park located at Kadri, Pilkula Nisargadhama, Gandhi Park situated at Gandhinagar, Corporation bank Park located at a place called Nehru Maidan and the Tagore Park placed at the Lighthouse Hill.
Fixed Line Telecom facilities are offered in Mangalore beside the Code Division Multiple Access and GSM mobile services. Mangalore serves as the headquarters of Dakshina Kannada Telecom District which is second largest district of telecom in the state of Karnataka. DataOne by BSNL, Airtel and Tata are the prominent service providers of Broadband Internet in Mangalore.
All in all, it can be said that the Utility and Services that are found in Mangalore are always up to the mark and the Mangalore City Corporation gives no scopes of complaints to its local people and also to the tourists who visit Mangalore.
