What is the Difference Between Municipal Corporation and Municipality

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Major Difference between Municipal Corporation and Municipality
A Municipal Corporation is to govern cities with a population of more than 100,000 people.

Municipal Councils are for towns between 25,000 and 100,000 in population.

They are all responsible, in their own way, to generate revenue through taxes and deliver services to the citizens.

Their members are elected by the citizens. Number of members depends on the size of the city.

Municipal corporations are established for administration of big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad etc.

There may be one common acts or separate acts for all the municipal corporations in a state.

A municipal corporation has three authorities - the council, the standing committees and the municipal commissioner.

The Council is the deliberative and legislative wing and consists of the Councilors directly elected by the people.

They also have few nominated persons having knowledge or experience of municipal administration.

The Council is headed by a Mayor and assisted by Deputy Mayor.

Mayor is elected in a majority of the states for a one-year renewable term.

Municipalities are established for administration of towns and smaller cities.

They are set up in the states by the acts of state legislatures and in the union territory by the acts of the Parliament of India.

They are also known by various other names like municipal council, municipal committee, municipal board, borough municipality, city municipality and others.

A municipality has three authorities - the council, the standing committees and the chief executive officer.

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