Municipal Corporation Definition

Would you plz give me definition of Municipal corporation along with list of it in India , as I am going to appear in public service commission exam ??

As you asking I am telling municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. In India, Municipal Corporations or City Corporation or Mahanagar Palika or Mahanagar Nigam are urban local government that works for the development of a city, which has a population of more than one million (ten lakh):

List of municipal corporations in India
Andhra Pradesh Rank City District Population
(2011)
1 Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam 2,035,922
2 Vijayawada Krishna 1,048,240
3 Guntur Guntur 743,354
4 Nellore Nellore 499,575
5 Kurnool Kurnool 460,184
6 Rajahmundry East Godavari 343,903
7 Kadapa Kadapa 341,823
8 Kakinada East Godavari 312,255
9 Tirupati Chittoor 287,035
10 Anantapur Anantapur 262,340
11 Vizianagaram Vizianagaram 228,025
12 Eluru West Godavari 218,018
13 Ongole Prakasham 202,826
14 Chittoor Chittoor 189,000
15 Machilipatnam Krishna 169,892
16 Srikakulam Srikakulam 125,939

AssamRank City District Population (2011)
1 Guwahati Kamrup Metropolitan 963,429
2 Silchar Cachar District 228,985
3 Dibrugarh Dibrugarh District 154,019
4 Jorhat Jorhat District 153,249

BiharRank City District Population (2011)
1 Patna Patna 2,100,216
2 Gaya Gaya 470,000
3 Bhagalpur Bhagalpur 410,349
4 Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur 393,216
5 Munger Munger 388,000
6 Purnia Purnia 310,216
7 Darbhanga Darbhanga 306,612
8 Bihar sharif Nalanda 296,000
9 Arrah Bhojpur 262,000
10 Begusarai Begusarai 252,000
11 Chhapra Saran District 249,555
12 Katihar Katihar District 240,565
13 Saharsa Saharsa District 190,661

ChhattisgarhRank City District Population (2011)
1 Raipur Raipur 1,010,087
2 Birgaon Raipur 108,491
3 Bhilai Durg 625,697
4 Durg Durg 268,679
5 Bilaspur Bilaspur 330,106
6 Korba Korba 363,210
7 Rajnandgaon Rajnandgaon 163,122
8 Raigarh Raigarh 137,097
9 Jagdalpur Bastar 125,345
10 Ambikapur Surguja 114,575
11 Chirmiri Koriya 101,378
12 Dhamtari Dhamtari 108100

GoaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Panaji North Goa 189,000

GujaratRank City District Population (2011)
1 Ahmedabad Ahmadabad 3,515,361
2 Surat Surat 2,433,787
3 Vadodara Vadodara 1,306,035
4 Rajkot Rajkot 966,642
5 Bhavnagar Bhavnagar 510,958
6 Jamnagar Jamnagar 447,734
7 Junagadh Junagadh 320,250
8 Gandhinagar Gandhinagar 195,891

HaryanaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Faridabad Faridabad 1,054,981
2 Gurgaon Gurgaon 1,514,085
3 Ambala Ambala 1,054,981
4 Panchkula Panchkula 558,890
5 Yamunanagar Yamunanagar 532,000
6 Rohtak Rohtak 373,133
7 Hisar Hisar 301,249
8 Panipat Panipat 294,150
9 Karnal Karnal 210,000
10 Sonepat Sonepat 286,974

Himachal PradeshRank City District Population (2011)
1 Shimla Shimla 171,817
2 Dharamshala Kangra 58,260

Jammu & KashmirRank City District Population (2011)
1 Srinagar Srinagar 1,273,312
2 Jammu Jammu 951,373

JharkhandRank City District Population (2011)
1 Dhanbad Dhanbad 1,195,298
2 Ranchi Ranchi 1,126,741
3 Bokaro Bokaro 563,417
4 Deoghar Deoghar 283,116
5 Daltonganj Palamu 386,139
6 Giridih Giridih 1,66,387
7 Hazaribagh Hazaribagh 142,489
8 Adityapur Seraikela-Kharsawan NA

KarnatakaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Bengaluru Bengaluru Urban 6,523,210
2 Hubballi-Dharwad Dharwad 943,857
3 Mysuru Mysuru 887,446
4 Kalburgi Kalburgi 532,031
5 Mangaluru Dakshina Kannada 4,99,487
6 Belagavi Belagavi 4,90,045
7 Davangere Davangere 435,128
8 Ballari Ballari 409,444
9 Tumakuru Tumakuru 305,821
10 Shivamogga Shivamogga 322,428
11 Bijapur Bijapur 327,427

KeralaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram 957,730
2 Kochi Ernakulam 601,574
3 Kozhikode Kozhikode 432,097
4 Thrissur Thrissur 315,596
5 Kollam Kollam 397,419[4][5]
6 Kannur Kannur 232,634

Madhya PradeshRank City District Population (2011)[6][better source needed]
1 Indore Indore 2,167,447
2 Bhopal Bhopal 1,886,100
3 Jabalpur Jabalpur 1,268,848
4 Gwalior Gwalior 1,117,740
5 Ujjain Ujjain 515,215
6 Sagar Sagar 370,296
7 Dewas Dewas 289,438
8 Satna Satna 283,004
9 Ratlam Ratlam 273,892
10 Burhanpur Burhanpur 210,891
11 Murwara (Katni) Katni 221,875
12 Rewa Rewa 235,422
13 Khandwa East Nimar 259,436
14 Singrauli Singrauli District NA
15 Chhindwara Chindwara District NA
16 Morena Morena District NA

MaharashtraRank City District Population (2011)
1 Mumbai Mumbai City District,
Mumbai Suburban District 11,914,398
2 Mira-Bhayandar Thane
3 Thane Thane
4 Navi Mumbai Thane,
Raigad District
5 Kalyan-Dombivli Thane
6 Ulhasnagar Thane
7 Bhiwandi-Nizampur Thane
8 Vasai-Virar Palghar 469,526
9 Pune Pune 3,115,431
10 Pimpri-Chinchwad Pune
11 Nagpur Nagpur 2,405,421
12 Aurangabad Aurangabad 1,309,106
13 Nashik Nashik 1,486,973
14 Amravati Amravati 646,801
15 Solapur Solapur 1,300,511
16 Kolhapur Kolhapur 549,283
17 Sangli-Miraj & Kupwad Sangli 502,697
18 Ahmednagar Ahmednagar 350,905
19 Malegaon Nashik 471,006
20 Jalgaon Jalgaon 780,468
21 Dhule Dhule 376,093
22 Nanded-Waghala Nanded 430,598
23 Latur Latur 382,754
24 Parbhani Parbhani 307,191
25 Akola Akola 427,146
26 Chandrapur Chandrapur 321,036

ManipurRank City District Population (2011)
1 Imphal Imphal East, Imphal West 250,234

MizoramRank City District Population (2011)
1 Aizawl Aizawl 2,93,416

OdishaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Bhubaneswar Khordha 837,737
2 Cuttack Cuttack 650,000
3 Brahmapur Ganjam 355,823
4 Rourkela Sundergarh 273,217
5 Sambalpur Sambalpur 269,575

PunjabRank City District Population (2011)
1 Ludhiana Ludhiana 1,613,878
2 Patiala Patiala 660,453
3 Amritsar Amritsar 1,132,761
4 Jalandhar Jalandhar 862,196
5 Bhathinda Bathinda 285,813
6 Mohali Mohali 174,000
7 Pathankot Pathankot 159,909
8 Moga Moga 159,897
9 Phagwara Kapurthala 117,954
10 Sangrur Sangrur 189,731

RajasthanRank City District Population (2011)
1 Jaipur Jaipur 3,073,350
2 Jodhpur Jodhpur 1,003,918
3 Kota Kota 1,001,365
4 Bikaner Bikaner 647,804
5 Ajmer Ajmer 542,580
6 Udaipur Udaipur 451,735
7 Bharatpur Bharatpur 252,109

SikkimRank City District Population (2011)
1 Gangtok East Sikkim 98,658

Tamil NaduRank Name District Population
(2011)
1 Chennai Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur 8,696,010
2 Coimbatore Coimbatore 2,151,466
3 Madurai Madurai 1,462,420
4 Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 1,021,717
5 Tiruppur Tiruppur 962,982
6 Salem Salem 919,150
7 Erode Erode 521,776
8 Tirunelveli Tirunelveli 498,984
9 Vellore Vellore 481,966
10 Thoothukkudi Thoothukkudi 410,760
11 Thanjavur Thanjavur 222,943
12 Dindigul Dindigul 207,323

TelanganaRank City District Population (2011)
1 Hyderabad Hyderabad, Rangareddy,

Medak 6,809,970
2 Warangal Warangal 620,116
3 Nizamabad Nizamabad 310,467
4 Karimnagar Karimnagar 260,899
5 Ramagundam Karimnagar 229,632
6 Khammam Khammam 184,252

TripuraRank City District Population (2011)
1 Agartala West Tripura 450,000

Uttar PradeshRank City District Population (2011)
1 Kanpur Kanpur Nagar 2,920,067
2 Lucknow Lucknow District 2,901,474
3 Ghaziabad Ghaziabad 2,458,525
3 Agra Agra District 1,746,467
4 Varanasi Varanasi District 1,435,113
5 Meerut Meerut District 1,424,908
6 Allahabad Allahabad District 1,216,719
8 Bareilly Bareilly District 1,200,933
9 Aligarh Aligarh District 909,559
10 Moradabad Moradabad District 889,810
11 Saharanpur Saharanpur District 703,345
12 Gorakhpur Gorakhpur District 692,519
13 Faizabad Faizabad District 689,985
14 Firozabad Firozabad District 603,797
15 Jhansi Jhansi District 507,293

UttarakhandRank City District Population (2011)
1 Dehradun Dehradun 447,808
2 Haldwani Nainital 322,140
3 Haridwar Haridwar 225,235
4 Roorkee Haridwar 220,306
5 Rudrapur Udham Singh Nagar 140,884
6 Kashipur Udham Singh Nagar 121,610

West BengalRank City District Population (2011)
1 Kolkata Kolkata district rasomoy
2 Howrah Howrah district rasomoy
3 Chandannagar Hooghly district rasomoy
4 Serampur Hooghly district rasomoy
5 Chinsurah Hooghly district rasomoy
6 Bidhannagar North 24 Parganas district rasomoy
7 Barasat North 24 Parganas district rasomoy
8 Barakpur North 24 Parganas district rasomoy
9 Dumdum North 24 Parganas district rasomoy
10 Maheshtala South 24 Parganas district rasomoy
11 Kalyani Nadia district rasomoy
12 Ranaghat Nadia district rasomoy
13 Krishnanagar Nadia district rasomoy
14 Asansol Bardhaman district rasomoy
15 Durgapur Bardhaman district rasomoy
16 Bardhaman Bardhaman district rasomoy
17 Kharagpur West Midnapur district rasomoy
18 Midnapur West Midnapur district rasomoy
19 Baharampur Mursidabad district rasomoy
20 Siliguri Darjeeling & Jalpaiguri district rasomoy
21 Jalpaiguri Jalpaiguri district rasomoy
22 Maldah Maldah district rasomoy
23 Haldia East Midnapur district rasomoy
24 Coochbehar Coochbehar district rasomoy

Union territories-based list

Municipal Corporations of India in the Union territories of India.

DelhiRank City District Population (2011)
1 North Delhi Delhi

2 South Delhi Delhi

3 East Delhi Delhi

4 New Delhi Delhi


ChandigarhRank City District Population (2011)
1 Chandigarh Chandigarh 960,787

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