Kanpur Municipal Corporation

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| name = Kanpur Municipal Corporation
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| house_type = Municipal Corporation
| body = Kanpur
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| leader1_type = Mayor
| leader1 = [[Pramila Pandey]]
| party1 = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| election1 = 2017
| leader2_type = Municipal Commissioner
| leader2 = Mr. Shri Shivasharanappa G N, IAS
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| party3 = [[Indian National Congress]]
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| meeting_place = City Hall (KMC Building), [[Moti Jheel]], Kanpur
| website = {{url|http://kmc.up.nic.in}}
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'''Kanpur Municipal Corporation''' is a municipal corporation of [[Kanpur]] city in [[India]]n state of [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kmc.up.nic.in/|title=Kanpur municipal corporation::Birth Certificate.Grievance Redressal.online property tax .Civil Work|website=kmc.up.nic.in|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref> The corporation has 110 wards covering area equal to 403 kilometres square making it the Second Largest city in Up after Lucknow whose municipal corporation covers an area of 631km square.<ref name='Kanpur City'>{{cite web|title=Kanpur City|url=https://kanpursmartcity.org/about-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mapsofindia.com/kanpur/ward-map.html|title=Kanpur Ward Map|website=www.mapsofindia.com|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/801005-kanpur-uttar-pradesh.html|title=Kanpur Municipal Corporation City Population Census 2011-2019 {{!}} Uttar Pradesh|website=www.census2011.co.in|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>

==History==

The municipality in Kanpur, then ''Cawnpore'' was first established on 22 November 1861 under the chairmanship of a [[District Magistrate]]. Lala Sheo Prasad was the first Vice Chairman of the association of Cawnpore Municipal Committee. The Town Hall building was erected at Cooperganj in the year 1879 with investment of around 2,16,000 rupees.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wi5uAAAAMAAJ&q=Cawnpore+Town+Hall |title = District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: Cawnpore|last = Drake-Brockman|first = D. L.|year = 1909}}</ref>

The first drainage system was established in 1872 and the first protected water supply in 1892.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} The city became a municipal corporation in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/infocell/iitk/history/kanpur.html|title=Kanpur|website=iitk.ac.in|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107174804/http://www.iitk.ac.in/infocell/iitk/history/kanpur.html|archive-date=2012-11-07}}</ref> Ram Ratan Gupta became the first mayor of Kanpur.

==Elections==

''See [[List of mayors of Kanpur]]''

==See also==
[[Kanpur (Mayoral Constituency)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://kmc.up.nic.in/}}

[[Category:Government of Kanpur]]
[[Category:Municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:1959 establishments in Uttar Pradesh]]

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