The Kashipur Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of
Kashipur in
Uttarakhand
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,
India
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.
Structure
This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a
mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...
who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other
corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.
List of mayors
Current members
Kashipur Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 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
23 January 2025. The current mayor of Kashipur is Deepak Bali of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
.
References
Kashipur, Uttarakhand
Municipal corporations in Uttarakhand
Year of establishment missing
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