A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

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An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat.

However, there are some exceptions. All the previous town area committees (urban centres with a total population of more than 5,000 and less than 20,000) are reclassified as nagar panchayat.

Nagar panchayats have a chairman with ward members. Membership consists of a minimum of ten elected ward members and three nominated members.

See also

• Municipal governance in India
  Municipal Governance in India
  Municipal governance in India has been in existence since the year 1687 with the formation of Madras Municipal Corporation and then Calcutta and Bombay Municipal Corporation in 1726. In early part of the nineteenth century almost all towns in India had experienced some form of municipal governance...
  
  
• Nagar palika
  Nagar Palika
  In India, a nagar palika or municipality is a urban local body that administers a city of population 20,000 or more. Under the Panchayati Raj system, it interacts directly with the state government, though it is administratively part of the district it is located in...
  
  
• Nagar nigam
  Nagar Nigam
  Nagar nigam or municipal corporations in India are state government formed departments that works for the development of a city, which has a population of more than one million...
  
  
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