<Tr> <Th> Staff </Th> <Td> 37,829 (as on 31 March 2003) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Kolkatamycity.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Kolkata Municipal Corporation or KMC (formerly Calcutta Municipal Corporation or CMC) is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Kolkata . This civic administrative body administers an area of 200.71 km . Its motto, Purosree Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali script . KMC is headed by Sovan Chatterjee the present Mayor of Kolkata . </P> <P> The KMC was established in 1876 . Under the guidance of the first Minister of Local Self - Government in Bengal, Sir Surendranath Banerjee, the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 made provision for the enfranchisement of women and the election of a Mayor annually . Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das was the first Mayor of KMC with Niyaz Ahamed as his Chief Executive Officer . Later mayors include Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, and for the 2010 - 2015 term, Sovan Chatterjee . </P>

Who presides over the meeting of municipal corporation