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Urban Local Bodies
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
are the constitutionally provided administrative units that provide basic infrastructure and services in cities and towns. According to Census of India 1991, there are 3255 ULBs in the country classified into four major categories:
- nagar nigam
Nagar nigam or municipal corporations in India are state government formed departments that works for the development of a city, which has a population of more than one million...
- nagar palika
In India, a nagar palika or municipality is a urban local body that administers a city of population 20,000 or more. Under the Panchayati Raj system, it interacts directly with the state government, though it is administratively part of the district it is located in...
- nagar panchayat
A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....
Large urban areas are governed by nagar nigams
, often simply called corporations
. The area under a corporation is further divided up into wards
. Individual wards or collections of wards within a corporation sometimes have their own administrative body known as ward committees
Smaller urban areas are governed by nagar palika
, which are often referred to simply as municipalities
. Municipalities are also divided into wards, which may be grouped together into ward councils
. One or more representatives are elected to represent each ward.