Nabadwip Municipality is the self-governing and urban local body of the town Nabadwip of Nadia district of the Indian state West Bengal. It is a registered government organisation. The primary and main objective of Nabadwip Municipality is to provide all municipal facilities to all of the citizens.
History
As per the Town Development Act, 1850, town committees were being founded in various towns. Nadia Town Committee was established in 1 April 1869[1] as per the Bengal Municipal Improvement Act, 1864. Election process was started in 1876. At that time, 8 of the 12 members were elected by the tax-payers and rest 4's were nominated. The fist meeting was held in the house of Late Gurudas Das in 1869. Eleven members along with two British men were present at that meeting. They were:
Initially, after the establishment in 1869, the name of the Nadia Town Committee was changed to Nadia Municipal Committee in 1877. Later in 1915, the municipal committee was awarded to municipality status and the name was finally set to Nabadwip Municipality.[1][2]
List of Chairman and Vice-chairman
List of Chairmen
List of Vice-chairmen
Mr. Tuidy from 01.04.1869
Mr. D G Taylor from 03.01.1883
Narahari Mukhopadhyay from 23.01.1885
Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 01.02.1894
Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 29.03.1896
Narahari Mukhopadhyay from 08.01.1899
Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 21.06.1899
Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 21.08.1900
Jagneshwar Bhattacharya from 04.01.1902
Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 23.08.1903
Administrator from 19.02.1903
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Dwarakanath Bhattacharya Bahadur from 09.01.1905
Satinath Mukherjee until 02.07.1921
Arunchandra Chatterjee from 03.07.1921
Debendranath Bagchi from 24.06.1922
Purnachandra Mukherjee from 24.03.1923
Janaranjan Mukherjee from 18.10.1924
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Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 27.10.1932
Rampada Chatterjee from 26.08.1939
Shailendranath Goswami from 28.09.1940
Dwijendralal Chatterjee from 03.05.1941
Nimaichand Goswami from 26.09.1942
Jitendranath Bagchi from 21.12.1945
Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 11.12.1946 ।
Shachindramohan Nandi from 26.08.1947
Tinkari Bagchi from 24.11.1951
Purnachandra Bagchi Bahadur from 28.06.1952
Shachindramohan Nandi from 18.05.1956
Administrator from 30.05.1969
Bhairab Sharana Chattopadhyay from 30.12.1969
Administrator from 28.12.1971
Biswanath Mitra from 19.07.1981
Amarendranath Bagchi from 05.07.1990
Balai Pal from 18.08.1997
Radharaman Saha from 23.06.2000
Jibankrishna Saha from 30.05.2001
Pundarikakshya Saha from 21.06.2005।
Bimankrishna Saha from 09.09.2009
Administrator from 2020
Mr. Sabi from 01.04.1869
Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 01.04.1879
Dinanath Bhattacharya from 14.04.1881
Tarinicharan Chattopadhyay from 18.03.1882
Anandamoy Ray from 23.10.1884
Dinanath Bhattacharya from 23.01.1885
Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 29.10.1888
Panchanan Mukhopadhyay 01.02.1894
Binondlal Goswami 06.05.1897
Jagabandhu Bandyopadhyay from 30.01.1898
Panchanan Mukhopadhyay from 24.05.1900
Binodbihari Goswami from 25.08.1900
Jagneshwar Bhattacharya 13.07.1902
Benimadhab Bhattacharya 18.10.1902
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Ramdas Mukhopadhyay from 23.08.1903
Administrator from 19.12.1903
Ramdas Mukherjee from 09.01.1905
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Janaranjan Ray from 01.09.1922
Ramnarayan Chatterjee from 02.09.1922
Janaranjan Ray from 15.11.1922
Sadananda Bhattacharya from 18.10.1924
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Binaykrishna Mukherjee from 27.10.1932
Kalidas Chakraborty from 17.09.1936
Niranjan Modak from 26.08.1939
Bijan Kumar Mukherjee from 03.05.1941
Ganapati Mukherjee from 26.09.1942
Anukul Chandra Bhattacharya from 25.08.1943
Kumaresh Chandra Singharay from 26.08.1943
Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 22.12.1945
Shyamapada Bhattacharya from 26.08.1947
Binaybhushan Mitra from 08.03.1950
Bhabanishankar Gupta from 24.11.1951
Binaybhushan Mitra from 18.06.1952
Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 15.04.1954
Shankaricharan Chatterjee from 1805.1956
Aurobinda Ghosh from 16.05.1961
Jagabandhu Bhattacharya from 03.01.1964
Administrator from 30.05.1969
Jagajiban Goswami from 03.12.1969
Administrator from 28.12.1971
Amarendra Bagchi from 01.07.1981
Gour Das 05.07.1990
Ajay Singha 20.08.1997
Jibankrishna Saha 23.06.2000
Tusharkanti Bhattacharya from 30.05.2001
Shachindra Basak from 2015
Administrator from 2020
★ ★ No records have been found from 20.05.1905 - 10.09.1920, 08.11.1924 - 26.10.1932 and 16.06.1934 - 17.09.1939. It is found at page no. 47 of the Centenary Memorial Magazine of Nabadwip Hindu School that, Sadanada Bhattacharya was the chairman of Nabadwip Municipality from 1927 to 1932. The chairman of Nabadwip Municipality was Narayan Chandra Banerjee from 1919.[3]
The election was to held in April or May, 2020 and the previous chairman and vice-chairman was to be valid till then. But due to COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, this process is paused and the current administrator is working.