Guwahati Municipal Corporation - GMC

Guwahati is the capital city of Assam and the gateway to all other states in the North East and is the commercial hub of North East India with all major national and multinational companies having their regional offices in the city.

Guwahati derives its name from two Assamese words: guwa' meaning areca nut and 'haat' meaning market place.It is also called as Gauhati by some.

Guwahati is situated on the southern bank of the mighty river Brahmaputra surrounded by beautiful green hills. The famous Kamakhya temple in Guwahati attracts thousands of devotees from all over the country. It witnesses large number of devotees during Manasha Puja and Ambubashi Mela. With some of famous temples like Navagraha, Sukreswar, Poorva Tirupathi, Umananda, Doul Govinda Temple, Balaji Temple, Dirgheswari Temple, etc Guwahati is also known as the Temple city. The hermitage of Basistha Rishi is located in the southern part of Guwahati.

The Guwahati Municipal Corporation or GMC was created in 1971 by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act which was constituted in 1974 in the first meeting of all the elected councilors as per Section 45 of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation Act.

The Corporation is headed by a Mayor and a Deputy Mayor along with the council of 60 elected ward commissioners. There are also 5 standing committees of the council to supervise their various works for a swift running of the Municipal Corporation. The GMC presently covers an area of 216 km² which comes under its jurisdiction and is divided into 60 municipal wards covering the whole of Guwahati city.

The major branches of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation includes -

Water Works Tax Division
Conservancy
Building Permission
Public Works
Municipal Markets
Street light and Electrical Section
Veterinary
Sanitation & Health
Property Tax
Enforcement
Trade License
Mutation Branch
Slow Moving Vehicle Branch
Advertisement
Poverty alleviation
Dead body and night soil removal Branch
Garage Branch
Birth and death registration
Accounts Branch

The different sources of Revenue collected by GMC are as follows:

The trade license fees
The property Tax comprising of water tax, general tax, scavenging tax, urban tax and light tax
The entry toll
The toll and rents from municipal markets
The parking fees
The taxes on advertisements
The animal tax
The vehicle tax on slow moving vehicles
The building permission fees and penalties
The various Fines
The water connection charge
The share of motor vehicle tax
The share of land revenue and surcharge on stamp duty
The share of entertainment tax

GMC Zones:

Central Zone of Guwahati
Dispur Zone of Guwahati
East Zone of Guwahati
Lokhra Zone of Guwahati
South Zone of Guwahati
West Zone of Guwahati

Each revenue zone is headed by a Deputy Commissioner while an executive engineer heads the public works department.