(1) The notification in respect of constitution of a Corporation area shall be published in the Official Gazette and the District Magistrate concerned shall publish the notification in at least two leading newspapers, one of which shall be in vernacular intelligible to the inhabitants of the area concerned.
(2) A copy of the notification shall also be displayed 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 Corporation area shall be made by the District Magistrate concerned either by beating of drum throughout the area concerned or through any other publicity media.
5. Any inhabitant of the area, in respet of which the notification has been published under section 4, may, if he objects to anything contained in the notification, submit his objections in writing to the State Government within three months from the date of publication of the notification, and the State Government shall take his objections into consideration.
6. On the expiry of three months from the date of publication of the notification under section 4 and after consideration of all or any of the objections which may be submitted under section 5 and also after taking into consideration the views of the Municipality and/or the Notified Area Authority and concerned Grain Panchayat, if any, affected by the notification issued under section 4 the Governor may, by notification, constitute the area in respect of which notification has been published under section 4 or any specified part thereof a Corporation area under this Act.
West Ben. Act XLI of 1973.
PART III] THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 29, 2008 27 The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006.
(Part 11.—Corporation Area.—Chapter 11.—Constitution of Corporation area.— Sections 7, 8.—Chapter 11L—Municipal authorities.—Sections 9. 10.)
Power to determine number of wards in a Corporation area.
Power to abolish, or to alter the limits of, Corporation area.
Municipal authorities.
Corporation.
7. The State Government may, by notification, determine the number of wards in a Corporation area, having due regard to the population, density of population, geographical condition, historical importance and economic considerations of the area of each ward.
8. The State Government may, by notification,—
(a) withdraw any Corporation area from the operation of this Act, or
(b) exclude from a Corporation area any local area comprised therein, and defined, in the notification, or
(c) include in a Corporation area any local area contiguous to such Corporation area and defined in the notification, or
(d) devide any Corporation area into two or more Corporation areas or municipal areas, or
(e) unite two or more Corporation areas or municipal areas so as to form one Corporation area, or
(f) revise the boundary of two or more contiguous Corporation areas or municipal areas, or
(g) re-define the boundaries or limits of a Corporation area:
Provided that the procedure laid down for the constitution of a Corporation area under this Act shall be followed mutatis nzutandis in each such case:
Provided further that the views of the Corporation likely to be affected by any such notification shall be taken into consideration before a final declaration is made:
Provided also that no such notification shall be issued—
(i) under clause (c), unless the State Government is satisfied that the local area referred to in that clause complies with the provisions of clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 3, or
(ii) where any part of the Corporation or the local area is a cantonment, or part of a cantonment.
CHAPTER III Municipal authorities
9. The following shall be the municipal authorities for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, namely:—
(a) the Corporation,
(b) the Mayor-in-Council, and
(c) the Mayor.