how many municipalities are there in india?
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There are around 3700 urban local bodies with 100 corporations, 1500 municipal councils and 2100 nagar panchayats, besides 56 cantonment boards—a kind of extra-constitutional body.
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When the Constitution of India was adopted in 1949, there was only one Part D state: Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Three more, the Delhi, Chandigarh and Lakshadweep were formed by separating each territory from pre-existing states.
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For local government, there are a total of 212 districts including 151 ordinary districts, 55 municipal districts, and six metropolitan districts. Various types of councils exist below the district level including 58 town or area councils, 108 zonal councils, and 626 area councils.
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The Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) forms a part of the state legislatures of India. In six of India's 28 States (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh), the Legislative Council serves as the indirectly-elected upper house of a bicameral legislature.
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Of Quebec's 1,108 municipalities, 652 or 59% of them are simply "municipalities". Among the remaining 456, there are 227 towns, 43 villages, 142 parishes, 42 townships, and 2 united townships. Despite still being a legal municipal status, there are no longer any cities in Quebec.
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At present there are 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities, and 460 rural municipalities.
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For administrative purposes, the state has been divided into 8 districts, 23 subdivisions and 58 development blocks—with effect from 21 January 2012, after a Government of Tripura Decision, out of which the newly created districts are 4, subdivisions 6, development blocks 5.
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The Indian State of Maharashtra came into existence on 1 May 1960. It is also known as Maharashtra Day, initially with 26 districts. 10 new districts have been created since then, and currently the number of districts in the state is 36. These districts are grouped into six administrative divisions shown below.
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Uttar Pradesh is divided into 75 Districts and 18 Divisions.
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The district consists of 12 municipalities, out of which two are urban municipalities and ten are rural municipalities.
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The district consists of 10 Municipalities, out of which four are urban municipalities and six are rural municipalities. These are as follows: Baglung Municipality (the district's headquarter) Dhorpatan Municipality.
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Municipalities are categorised into 5 types. The state of Andhra Pradesh has a total of 77 municipalities. The municipalities are classified as 6 selection grade, 7 special grade, 16 first grade, 30 second grade and 18 third grade. Guntur district has the most number of municipalities with 12.
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India has, in total, seven Union Territories--Delhi (National Capital Territory of Delhi), Puducherry, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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In West Bengal there are 127 municipalities, out of which 38 are KMA municipalities.
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Administration. The district consists of 11 Municipalities, out of which two are urban municipalities and nine are rural municipalities. These are as follows: Gorkha Municipality.
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The first-ever exercise by the CBI to map registered NGOs has disclosed that India has at least 31 lakh NGOs — more than double the number of schools in the country, 250 times the number of government hospitals, one NGO for 400 people as against one policeman for 709 people.