DECENTRALIZATION AND DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY AT NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (NMC) NAGPUR

For meaningful decentralization of any urban local body, the three types of decentralization i.e. Political, Administrative and Fiscal Decentralization is required. In India, 74 th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA), 1992, has given constitutional recognition to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) of India. The 74 th CAA envisaged decentralization within municipality having population more than 3 lakhs into Ward Committees (WCs) for providing be tter civic services to citizens. The City of Nagpur Corporation (CNC) Act 1948, which governed t he working of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) until 2012 also envisaged decentralization of NMC, i.e. decentralization of zone into wards and constitution of WCs for better linkages with citizen.