Mumbai is one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world as well as India’s dominant urban centres. It is also India’s commercial, economic and entertainment centre. The MCGM administers it as per the provisions of Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888, which was originally described as Bombay Act No. III of 1888, and was then referred to as the City of Bombay Municipal Act, 1888. The Bill embodying the provision of this Act, received the assent of the Governor General of India and was first published by the Governor of Bombay on 14th September, 1888.
The name was further changed to the ‘Bombay Municipal Corporation Act’ in 1950, when the limits of the Corporation were extended on the north to include a part of Salsette Taluka of Thane District and the area was called ‘Greater Bombay’. The area was further extended on 01.02.1957 and the Corporation is known as ‘Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai’. The MCGM covers an area of 480.24 sq. km. of a city that is considered to be one of the most densely populated across the globe. Therefore, obviously the department entrusted with overseeing the process that continuously transforms the city’s skyline has an immense task on its hands.
