| Cumilla City Corporation কুমিল্লা সিটি কর্পোরেশন | |
|---|---|
 Emblem of the city corporation | |
| Type | |
| Type | City Corporation |
| History | |
| Founded | July 10, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-07-10) |
| New session started | 19 August 2024 |
| Leadership | |
| Mayor | Vacant since 19 August 2024 |
| Administrator | Saif Uddin Ahmed since 19 August 2024 |
| Deputy Mayor | Vacant since 19 August 2024 |
| Chief Executive Officer | Md. Shamsul Alam since 19 August 2024 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | Vacant seats 36 councillors |
| Length of term | Up to five years |
| Elections | |
| Voting system | First past the post |
| First election | 5 January 2012 |
| Last election | 9 March 2024 |
| Next election | TBD |
| Meeting place | |
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| Nagar Bhaban, Comilla | |
| Website | |
| cocc | |
Cumilla City Corporation (Bengali: কুমিল্লা সিটি কর্পোরেশন) is a local governing body that administered all civic services in the city of Comilla, Bangladesh. The city corporation government is elected by popular vote every five years. It is headed by a mayor, who presides over 36 councillors. It’s follows The City Corporation Act, 2009 and derives most of its powers from it.
The corporation covers an area of over 53.84 square kilometers in the Comilla District. The body was known as Comilla Municipality previously, until it obtained the city corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 10 July 2011.
History
The Comilla municipality was formed in the mid-1890s and the city remained as a municipality for over 125 years though the number of the population has been rising with time. An administrative proposition, issued from the Comilla district administration, was passed on 20 August 2009. The ministry of local government meeting on 4 March 2011 declared to turn at least four of the populated municipalities into city corporations, largely bringing Comilla as a suggestion as one of the contenders. An administrative move was made on 23 June 2011 abolishing the Comilla Municipality as the final step to introduce the administrative body as a city corporation. Later on 10 July 2011, a ministry gazette named the Comilla Municipality as the new Comilla City Corporation.
The city corporation is run by a joint staff of elected public representatives and government officials. Officials both come from departmental recruitment and the administrative cadre service of the country. The city corporation has 37 members, containing 27 councilors, 9 woman councilors led by the mayor. Bangladesh Election Commission is constituted to oversee city corporation polls, which sits in the office for a five-year tenure.
The first ever mayoral election of the city corporation was held on 5 January 2012, has an area of 200 kilometers, elected the municipality's Monirul Haque Sakku as its new mayor, 27 councilors and 9 woman councilors from 27 wards. 2024 Comilla City Corporation by-election
Services
The COCC Government is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.
| Departments | Services |
|---|---|
| Electricity | Maintenance of road lighting and street lamps. |
| Engineering | Development and renovation of roads, drains, canals, bridges, culverts and footpaths etc. |
| Granting permission to cut roads for laying gas, water lines. | |
| Building Design Approval, Contractor Registration, Contractor Renewal, Land Demarcation Certificate. | |
| Transportation | Emergency transportation and storage of corpses. |
| Construction and monitoring of bus terminal and car parking. | |
| Road roller hire, provision of ambulance for sick patients. | |
| Cleaning | Solid waste management and street cleaning. |
| Clearing drains and eliminating waterlogging. | |
| Mosquito eradication. | |
| Health | Management of Matrisadan Hospital and General Hospital Charitable Hospital and Homeo Charitable Hospital |
| Immunization of mothers and children, deworming and conduct of vitamin A+ campaign under EPI programme. | |
| Diploma in Midwifery Institute and Management of Health Technology. | |
| Registrar | Registration of births/deaths and issuance of certificates. |
| Issuance of nationality, inheritance and character certificates. | |
| Education | Conducting Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools, Furkaniya Madrasas, Sanskrit Tolls and Kindergartens. |
| Management of computer institutes and technical training institutes. | |
| Management of Adult Education and Teacher Training Centres. | |
| Conducting theater institutes for healthy development in cultural activities. | |
| Water Supply and Sewerage | Purify and supply water and Treat and dispose of contaminated water and sewage. |
| Revenue | New issue/renewal of trade license, change of name and change of ownership. |
| Issuance of holding number, change of number, collection of holding tax and reduction of tax, cancellation of holding name etc. | |
| Allotment of shops owned by the Corporation, transfer of shops, allotment of market shops, lease of huts, maintenance of fixed assets of the Corporation. | |
| Magistracy | Settlement of cases through arbitration and appellate court proceedings. |
| Mobile court to conduct anti-adulteration campaign. | |
| Housing and Public Works | Distribution of residential plots and flats to solve the city's housing crisis. |
| Social Welfare | Celebration of National Days, Annual Donations. |
| Construction of children's parks to increase children's recreational facilities. |
Annual budget
The Cumilla City Corporation has announced a budget of ৳1044.50 crore (US$87 million) for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
List of mayors
Main article: Mayor of Comilla- Status
- Acting Mayor and Administrator^ by-election
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Election | Term of office | Political party |
Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| 1 | Monirul Haque Sakku | 2012 | 5 January 2012 | 11 May 2017 | 10 years, 131 days | BNP | ||
| 2017 | 11 May 2017 | 16 May 2022 | ||||||
| – | Dr. Safiqul Islam (Administrator) |
– | 17 May 2022 | 5 July 2022 | 49 days | Independent | ||
| 2 | 
|
Arfanul Haque Rifat (1958–2023) | 2022 | 5 July 2022 | 13 December 2023 (Died in office) | 1 year, 161 days | AL | |
| 3 | 
|
Dr. Tahseen Bahar Shuchona | 2024^ | 4 April 2024 | 19 August 2024 | 137 days | ||
| – | Saif Uddin Ahmed (Administrator) |
– | 19 August 2024 | Incumbent | 149 days | Independent | ||
Elections
Election result 2022
Main article: 2022 Comilla City Corporation election| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Arfanul Haque Rifat | 50,310 | 37.34 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Monirul Haque Sakku | 49,967 | 37.08 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Nizam Uddin Kaiser | 29,099 | 21.60 | N/A | ||
| IAB | Rashedul Islam | 3,040 | 2.26 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Kamrul Ahsan Babul | 2,329 | 1.73 | N/A | ||
| Majority | 343 | 0.26 | ||||
| Turnout | 1,34,776 | 58.62 | ||||
| Registered electors | 2,29,920 | |||||
| AL gain from BNP | ||||||
Election result 2017
Main article: 2017 Cumilla City Corporation election| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | Monirul Haque Sakku | 68,948 | |||
| AL | Anjum Sultana Sima | 57,863 | |||
| Majority | 11,085 | ||||
| Turnout | 1,32,690 | ||||
| Registered electors | 2,07,566 | ||||
| BNP hold | |||||
Election result 2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | Monirul Haque Sakku | 65,777 | |||||||||||||||||||
| AL | Afzal Khan | 36,471 | '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000001F−QINU`"' | − class="vcard" | Independent | Nurul Rahman Tanim | 8,514 | − | − class="vcard" | JP(E) | Mohammad Selim | 7,961 | − | ||||||||
| Majority | 27,306 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 1,25,522 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered electors | 1,69,279 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BNP win (new seat) | |||||||||||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ Comilla Now A City Corporation, BangladeshFirst.com, 11 July 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
- কুমিল্লা সিটি করপোরেশন ঘোষণা: শহরে আনন্দ-উল্লাস (in Bengali), Sheersha News, 11 July 2011, archived from the original on 2012-03-26, retrieved 2011-07-11
- "Four new city corporation to be set up", The Daily Star, 4 March 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
- Comilla City Polls Likely In December, BangladeshFirst.com, 17 October 2011, retrieved 2011-10-17
- সাক্কু বিজয়ী, Manab Zamin (in Bengali), 5 January 2011, retrieved 2012-01-05
- কুমিল্লার প্রথম মেয়র নির্বাচিত হলেন মনিরুল হক সাক্কু. bangla.irib.ir (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- "Sakku sinks AL favourite Afzal". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- "Arfanul Haque Rifat wins Cumilla city polls". The Financial Express. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- "AL picks Rifat for CCC polls". Risingbd.com. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- "Elected representatives of 12 city corporations removed". The Daily Star. 19 August 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-08-19.
- "Comilla gets first female mayor". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- "এমপি বাহারের মেয়ে সূচনা কুমিল্লার নতুন মেয়র". BD News 24. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- কুমিল্লার প্রথম মেয়র হলেন সাক্কু. banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 5 January 2012.
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