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.
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.agartala info The present municipal building is located near the City center of Agartala location namely Paradise Chowhamani.
YearPopulationArea 1961 54,878 1971 100,264 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 MayorGeneral Administration Revenue Market Development (including shopping complex) Other affairs not allocated to Members BJP 2. Smt. Manika Das Datta Deputy MayorAccounts and Cash Slum Development Cultural affairs BJPMayor-in-Council 3. Hiralal Debnath MemberVehicle PWD BJP 4. Tushar Kanti Bhattacharjee MemberPublic Health (excluding SWM) Drinking Water BJP 5. Smt. Himani Debbarma MemberST Development ICDS BJP 6. Hari Sadhan Debnath MemberPoverty alleviation (Housing Scheme) Sports BJP 7. Uday Bhaskar Chakraborty MemberElectric SWM BJP 8. Jagadish Das MemberMunicipal Properties Literacy BJP 9. Smt. Sampa Sarkar Sen MemberSchool Education NULM BJP 10. Bapi Das Member TUEP SC Development 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.
Mayor: Dipak MajumderDeputy Mayor: Manika Das Datta Ward No. Name of Councillor Party Remarks 1 Mitra Rani Das 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 List of cities and towns in Tripura
References
External links AMC page