Municipal council administrative office

The revised Maharashtra Municipal Act, 1965 came into force in the year 1965. Section 74 of Chapter 4 (Municipal Administration and District Collector) of these Acts provides for the establishment of a Municipal Administration Branch to control and supervise the functioning of the Municipal Council and the Municipal Panchayat established under this Act. Provisions regarding various responsibilities and powers have been made in various other sections of the Act, and various responsibilities related to the implementation of urban poverty alleviation, infrastructure, civil service and administration reforms, public health and environment campaigns/programmes implemented for the urban sector through the State and Central Governments have been assigned to this Department.
According to the 74th Constitutional Amendment passed in the year 1992 and implemented in 1993, the urban local bodies got constitutional status, and their various responsibilities and powers were increased to a great extent. In accordance with this constitutional amendment, in the year 1994, the duties, powers, elections, etc. of the Municipal Councils were revised. Various amendments have been made to the provisions regarding this and provisions related to the State Finance Commission and the State Election Commission have been included. Also, as per the recommendations of the Central Finance Commission, the Municipal Administration Branch is responsible for controlling the demand, distribution and utilization of grants given to local self-government bodies and implementing the reform program decided by the Central Government from time to time in accordance with these grants.