Municipal Council, Jagraon

Municipal Council, Jagraon is a Class-1 Municipal Council. Municipal Council, Jagraon was established in year 1935. Chaudhry Karam Baksh was first President of Municipal Council, Jagraon (1941 to 1946). According to 2011 Census, the Population of the city was 65174. The whole city is divided into 23 wards by electing 23 representatives. New House of this Municipal Council came into force in 2015. If we look at the history of this city, its 250 years old. This city was established by Rai Kalan. At present this city is a Sub-Divisional headquarter of district. Municipal Council, Jagraon is situated at a distance of 38 Kms from Ludhiana city and 30 Kms from Moga. This city is situated on Ludhiana- railway line.

Function & Achievements

Basic amenties like water, Garbage collection, Street Lights, Making & maintaining roads by lanes etc. are provided by the Municipal Council to the residents of the city. All lanes and by-lanes in residential cases are mettaled. At present point of time, the city has roads of 23 kms length, one community hall and three parks. Recently, Municipal Council, Jagraon has constructed a new park at Kothe Pona Road. Before the construction of this park, people were using this place as garbage dump. The Initiative to make a park at this place was taken by Ms. Apneet Riyait, IAS, SDM, Jagraon- cum-Administrator, Municipal Council, Jagraon (at present ADC) and Sh.Devinder Singh Toor, Executive Officer, Municipal Council, Jagraon. This Park has been Inaugurated by Hon’ble Sh. Rajat Agarwal, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana & Sh. S.R.Kaler, MLA, Jagraon along with Sh. Rakesh Kumar Popli, PCS, SDM, Jagraon on dated 02-04-2015. This Park is named as “MUNICIPAL GARDEN”. Municipal Council Jagraon is also providing Fire Brigade facility to the city. There is also one Suwidha Centre situated in the Municipal Council Jagraon where people can apply for Birth & Death Certificates and so on. Municipal Council, Jagraon is also providing facility to the people through Online Website (http://mcjagraon.com) / Offline Computer Software to make an assessment of their Property to file Property Tax. With the help Computer Software, MC also provides the SMS facility for property tax payers. At present Muncipal Council also providing the facility to people for offline bills of Water Supply & Sewerage which gets generated by oflline Computer Software.

Budget and Source of Income

The Budget of Municipal Council, Jagraon fixed for the year 2016-17 is Rs. 1585.00 lacs. During the last financial year MC had 1366.23 lacs. The main sources of income of Municipal Council, Jagraon are VAT/ GST, Property Tax/House Tax, Building Application Fee, Rent from Municipal Shops/Property, License Fee, Advertisement Fee & others. There are total 27,508 Property Units in Jagraon city out of which 20,291 units are Residential, 7203 units are Commercial and 14 units are others. MC has earmarked Rs 157.99 lacs for development works which include roads,drains,streets,street light,water supply,solid waste etc.

Officers/Employees (Permanent) designated in Different Branches

Jagraon-2016

# Designation Branch Officer's Name

1 Executive Officer Head of the Office Sr. Sukhdev Singh Randhawa 2 Superintendent Supervision of work of all branches (except works branch) Sh. Manohar Singh

3 Assistant Municipal Engineer Works/Building Branch Vacant

4 Junior Engineer Works/Building Branch Sh. Satyajit (Additional Charge) M.C. 5 Accountant-1 Accounts Branch Ms. Nisha 6 Sanitary Inspector-1 Sanitation Branch Sh. Anil Kumar 7 Work Supervisor Works/Building Branch Vacnat 8 Junior Assistant Accounts Branch Sh. Jatinderpal Singh 9 Junior Assistant Property Tax/House Tax Sh. Rakesh Kumar 10 Junior Assistant Court Clerk, Works Branch Sh. Ranjit Singh 11 Junior Assistant Cashier & Rent Sh. Jagseer Singh 12 Junior Assistant Computer Branch, Agenda Clerk, Election Assistant Sh. Davinder Singh 13 Clerk Sanitation Branch Sh. Harish Kumar 14 Clerk Accounts Branch Mrs. Navjeet Kaur 15 Computer (Heath Deptt.) Birth & Death Branch Sh. Gaurav Bhalla 16 Peon Accounts Branch Sh.Beant Singh 17 Peon Property Tax/House Tax, Rent & License Sh. Har Singh 18 Peon Works/Building Branch Sh. Kuldeep Kaur 19 Peon General Office Sh. Hardeep Singh

20 Beldar Office Chowkidar Sh. Hakam Singh