Barishal City Corporation

Barishal City Corporation বরিশাল সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Emblem of the Barishal City Corporation
Type
Type	City Corporation
History
Founded	July 25, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-07-25)
New session started	19 August 2024
Leadership
Mayor	Vacant since 19 August 2024
Administrator	Md. Shaukat Ali since 19 August 2024
Deputy Mayor	Vacant since 19 August 2024
Chief Executive Officer	Md. Israel Hossain since 5 October 2023
Structure
Seats	Vacant seats 1 mayor and 40 councillors
Length of term	Up to five years
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	12 June 2023
Next election	TBD
Meeting place
Nagar Bhaban, Barishal
Website
barishalcity.gov.bd

Barishal City Corporation is a self-governed municipal administration in Bangladesh that administers and oversees development and maintenance works in the city of Barisal. The corporation covers an area of over 58 square kilometers in the Barisal district where over five million people live as permanent residents. The body was known as Barisal Municipality previously, until it obtained the city corporation status by a ministry of local government declaration on 25 July 2002.

To provide civil service and facilities to the inhabitants, Barisal Town Committee was formed in 1969 under Act VI of 1868 (B.C.) with the district magistrate as its chairman. J. C. Price was the first chairman of the town committee. It was upgraded to Barisal municipality in 1876 under the Municipal Act of 1876. It was then managed by a committee, of which the district magistrate was president, and was aided by government with establishment grants.^[1] It remained as a municipality for over 130 years though the number of population have been rising with time. Later in 2001, the ministry of local government meeting on declared to turn two divisional headquarters, Barisal and Sylhet to city corporations and passed "Barisal City Corporation Act, 2001". An administrative move was made abolishing the Barisal Municipality as the final step to introduce the administrative body as a city corporation. On 25 July 2002, the municipality was officially upgraded as Barisal City Corporation.^[2]

Status

	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office		Tenure	Party	Reference
		Ahsan Habib Kamal (1954–2022)	–	25 July 2002	14 July 2003	354 days	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	[3][4]
		Mujibur Rahman Sarwar	2003	24 April 2003	21 April 2007	3 years, 362 days	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	[4][5]
		Awlad Hossain Dilu	–	22 July 2007	11 September 2008	1 year, 51 days	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	[6][7]
		Shawkat Hossain Hiron	2008	11 September 2008	15 June 2013	4 years, 277 days	Bangladesh Awami League	[7][8]
		Ahsan Habib Kamal (1954–2022)	2013	15 June 2013	8 October 2018	5 years, 115 days	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	[8][9]
		Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah	2018	31 October 2018	9 November 2023	6 years, 3 days	Bangladesh Awami League	[10]
		Abul Khair Abdullah	2023	14 November 2023	19 August 2024	279 days	Bangladesh Awami League	[11]
		Md. Shaukat Ali (Administrator)	–	19 August 2024	Incumbent	76 days	Independent

The mayor of Barisal City is head of the Barisal City Corporation. The mayor's office is located in Nagar Bhabon. It has jurisdiction over all thirty wards of the city, administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within the city.

The deputy mayor (also known as Panel mayor) is a second-ranking official of city corporation. 3 Panel mayors are appointed from the council member to assist the mayor through voting. The 1st panel mayor with the highest number of votes is appointed as deputy mayor or acting mayor. In the absence of the mayor, the deputy mayor controls all functions of the City Corporation. Other 2 Panel mayors also assist mayor and to oversee major offices within the executive branch of the BCC.

The city corporation is run by a joint staff of elected public representatives and government officials. Officials both come from departmental recruitment and the administrative cadre service of the country. The area of BCC is divided into 4 thanas: Kotwali, Kawnia, Bandar and Airport. The thanas are subdivided into 30 wards and 225 mahallas. It is administrated by 30 councilors, 9 woman councilors and the mayor elected by the local government election who sits in the office for a five-year tenure.

The Barisal City Corporation is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city.

• Water purification and supply
• Sewage treatment and disposal
• Garbage disposal and street cleanliness
• Solid waste management
• Building and maintenance of roads and streets.
• Street lighting
• Maintenance of parks and open spaces
• Cemeteries and crematoriums
• Registering of births and deaths
• Conservation of heritage sites
• Disease control, including immunization
• Public municipal schools etc.

• List of city corporations in Bangladesh
• Barisal Division

• Barisal City Corporation on Banglapedia

22°42′06″N 90°22′24″E / 22.7018°N 90.3734°E / 22.7018; 90.3734