Apart from Kolkata there are five others Municipal Corporations in the State namely the Howrah Municipal Corporation, Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Asansol Municipal Corporation, Chandannagar Municipal Corporation and Durgapur Municipal Corporation. All these Municipal Corporation are been administered by the separate the Howrah Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, the Siliguri Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, the Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, the Chandannagar Municipal Corporation Act, 1990 and the Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act, 1994.
The Mayor is the First Citizen of the Corporation. The administration of the Corporation is run by the Mayor-in-Council constituted the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and the maximum of 10 other elected members of the Corporation.
There is a Chairman, elected by the Councilors who exercises the powers in the Corporations which is similar to that of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
The Mayor nominates one of the Councilors as the Deputy Mayor.
For further decentralization there is a borough setup. Corporation constitutes 15 boroughs which are groups of contiguous wards. Each borough committees civic administration in borough areas are supervised by a borough committee constituted by a Councilors of the wards of concerned borough.
The Chief Administrative Officers of the Corporation is the Commissioner in the case of Howrah Municipal Corporation, and Chief Executive Officer in the case of other Municipal Corporations.
Excepting Howrah Municipal Corporation in the other Municipal Corporations the accounts rules and the building rules framed under the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 has been made applicable.
