Municipal Corporations in India or Mahanagar Palika or Mahanagar Nigam are

urban local government that works for the development of a city, which has a
population of more than one million (ten lakh). The growing population and
urbanization in various cities of India were in need of a local governing body that
can work for providing necessary community services like health care, educational
institution, housing, transport etc. by collecting property tax and fixed grant from
the State Government.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) also known as. Municipal
Corporation of Greater Mumbai is the civic body that governs the capital city of
Mumbai in Maharashtra and is India's richest municipal organization.[2][3] The
BMC's annual budget is more than that of some of the small states of India.
Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act 1888,[4] it is
responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some
suburbs of Mumbai. In 2014, Trishna Vishwasrao became the first female
corporator to be leader of the Corporation's house.
Administration
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is headed by a Municipal
commissioner, an IAS officer. The commissioner wields the executive power of the
house. A quinquennial election is held to elect corporators to power. The
corporators are responsible for overseeing that their constituencies have the basic
civic infrastructure in place, and that there is no lacuna on the part of the
authorities. The mayor is the head of the house, who is usually from the majority
party. As of June 2008, all administrative business in the BMC is conducted in
Marathi.
Legislative
As of 2009, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's legislature, also known as
the Corporation Council, consists of 227 members.