(1) The notification about the constitution of a municipal area shall be published in the Official Gazette and in at least two leading newspapers, one of which shall be in vernacular intelligible to the inhabitants of the local area concerned.
(2) A copy of the notification shall also be pasted up in a conspicuous place in the office of the District Magistrate, and in such other public places as the State Government may direct.
(3) A public proclamation about the constitution of a municipal area shall be made either by beating of drum throughout the local area concerned or though any other publicity media.
5. Any inhabitant of the town or local area in respect of which the notification has been published under section 4 may, if he objects to anything contained in the notification, submit his objection in writing to the State Government within three months from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, and the State Government shall take his objection into consideration.
6. On the expiry of three months from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette and after consideration of all or any of the objections which may be submitted, the State Government may, by notification, constitute such town or any specified part thereof a municipal area under this Act.
7. The State Government may, for the purpose of application of the provisions of this Act, classify the municipal areas into the following groups on the basis of the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published:— Group A—municipal areas having population above 2,00,000.
Group B—municipal areas having population above 1,50,000 but not exceeding 2,00,000.
Group C—municipal areas having population above 75,000 but not exceeding 1,50,000.
Group D—municipal areas having population above 25,000 but not exceeding 75,000.
Group E—municipal areas having population not exceeding. 25,000.
Publication of declaration.
Consideration of objection.
Constitution of municipal area.
Power to classify municipal areas.
217 The West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993.
[West Ben. Act (Part 11.—The Municipal Areas.—Chapter H.—The Constitution of Municipal Areas.—Sections 8-10.)
Power to divide municipal areas into wards.
Power to abolish or alter the limits of a municipal area.
Power to include certain dwellinghouse, manufactory, etc., within a particular municipal area.
8. The State Government may, by notification, divide any municipal area into a number of wards, having regard to population, dwelling pattern, geographical condition and economic considerations of the area included in each ward:
Provided that the number of wards in any municipal area shall not be less than nine and shall not exceed, in the case of a municipal area included in Group A, thirty-five, in the case of a municipal area included in Group B, thirty, in the case of a municipal area included in Group C, twenty-five, in the case of a municipal area included in Group D, twenty, and in the case of a municipal area included in Group E, fifteen.
9. The State Government may, by notification,—
(a) withdraw any municipal area from the operation of this Act; or
(b) exclude from a municipal area any local area comprised therein and defined in the notification; or
(c) include within a municipal area any local area contiguous to the same and defined in the notification; or
(d) divide any municipal area into two or more municipal areas; or
(e) unite two or more municipal areas so as to form one municipal area; or
(f) revise the boundary of two or more contiguous municipal areas; or
(g) re-define the boundaries or limits of a municipal area; or
(h) revise the number of boundaries of wards comprised in a municipal area:
Provided that the procedure laid down for the constitution of a municipal area under this Act shall be followed mutatis mutandis in each such case:
Provided further that the views of the Municipality affected by any such order shall be taken into consideration before a final declaration is made.
10. Where a dwelling-house, manufactory, warehouse, or place of industry or business is situated within the limits of two or more adjacent municipal areas, the State Government may, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, by notification, declare within which of these municipal areas such dwelling-house, manufactory, warehouse, or place of industry or business shall be deemed to be included for the purposes of this Act.
218 The West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993.
XXXII of 1993.]
(Part IL—The Municipal Areas.—Chapter IL—The Constitution of Municipal Areas.—Section 11.—Chapter III —The Municipal Authorities.—Sections 12-14.)