》Urban Local Government :-

City Corporation :

At present, there are 12 city corporation in Bangladesh. A City

Corporation consists of the mayor, the number of councilors as
specified by the gazette notification of the government, and the number
of women councilors in reserved seats subject to the provision of the
Section 5 (2) that refers that “Subject to the provision of the subsection 1
(kha) one third of the total councilors will remain reserved for women”1
(Section 5(1) and (2) of the Local Government (City Corporation) Act,
2009). In practice, the number of wards is determined on the basis of
geographical location of each City Corporation. For instance, there are
30 wards in the Rajshahi City Corporation while the Dhaka North City
Corporation consists of 36 wards. The tenure of a City Corporation shall
be 5 years from the date of the first meeting of the Parishad (Section 6 of
the Act of 2009).2 Since each City Corporation differs in the number of
words and the intensity of the volume of work, their organogram is also
different. For the understanding about the organogram of a City
Corporation, the organogram of the Dhaka North City Corporation
(hereinafter DNCC) is presented in the Fig. 4.1.3 As per the Local
Government (City Corporation) Act 2009 (Amendment Act 2011), the
mayor is the head of the City Corporation as well as approval authority
for administrative, financial, policy, and decisionmaking matters, and
also holds the chair of the Councilor’s meeting. He/she is elected by the
universal adult franchise for a 5-year term. In the absence of an elected
mayor, an administrator gets appointed by the Government for 180 days.
Like the mayor, ward councilors are also elected by universal adult
franchise. One counselor from each ward (general) gets elected by the
respective citizens of the ward and for reserved seats for women; one
woman councilor gets elected by votes.
Paurashava :

Municipal Corporations, also known as paurashava, are the local

governing bodies of the cities and towns in Bangladesh. There are 329
such municipal corporations in eight divisions of Bangladesh. A
Pourashava consists of an elected Chairman and Commissioners, both
elected and nominated to LG ( PS ) Act , 2009 each Paurashava consists
of Mayor , such number of Councilors in the general seats and one - thi
reserved seats exclusively for woman Councilors whose number fixed
by the government . The women Councilors in the reserved seats will
represent one from each three wards . The Mayor and Councilors and
women Councilors of a Paurashava are elected by direct election on the
basis of adult franchise . The Paurashava Mayor is to be considered a
Councilor . The Mayor and Councilors are paid an honorarium fixed by
the government N Term of Paurashava The term of a Paurashava is five
years , commencing from the day of its first meeting after its formation .
The first meeting is to be held on a date not later than 30 days from the
day of gazette notification of the names of its Mayor and Councilors .
The jurisdiction of a Paurashava is the area declared by the government
as city area. As per the provision of Local Government (Paurashava) Act
2009 (Hereinafter referred to as Paurashava Act 2009), The below-
mentioned conditions have to be met to be declared as city area:

(a) Three-fourth of the people is involved with non agricultural

profession.
(b) 33 percent land is non-agriculture type.
(c) Density of population is not less than 1500 in average in each square
km.
(d) Population is not less than 50 thousand.