Rajshahi City Corporation

Rajshahi City Corporation

রাজশাহী সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Emblem of the Rajshahi City Corporation
Type
Type
History
Founded1990 (1990)
New session started
19 August 2024
Leadership
Vacant
since 19 August 2024
Mahfuzur Rahman
since 14 March 2026
Vacant
since 19 August 2024
Md. Rejaul Karim
since 23 April 2025
Structure
SeatsVacant seats: 40 councillors
Length of term
Up to five years
Elections
First past the post
Last election
21 June 2023
Next election
TBD
Meeting place
Nagar Bhaban, Rajshahi
Website
erajshahi.portal.gov.bd

Rajshahi City Corporation (Bengali: রাজশাহী সিটি কর্পোরেশন: in short-RCC), is a local government authority responsible for administering all civic services in the Rajshahi, the city of Bangladesh. The RCC government is elected by popular vote every five years. The corporation is headed by a mayor, who oversees a council consisting of 40 councillors representing different wards of the city. The functions and powers of the RCC are defined under the provisions of The City Corporation Act, 2009.[1]

Rajshahi City Corporation is one of the major divisional city corporations of Bangladesh. The incorporated area was divided into several wards. Each ward has an elected ward commissioner. The mayor of the city is elected by popular vote every five years. The next election is announced to be held on 2023.[2]

Rajshahi City Corporation is renowned for its success in reducing of high concentrations of small particulates (PM10 and PM2.5) and air pollution.[3][4]

History

Rajshahi City Corporation was established as the Rajshahi Municipality (Rampur-Boalia Municipality) on 1 August 1876. A town committee of 7 members led by a former principal of Rajshahi College was formed by the Government headquartered in Rajshahi College. Most of the members were later replaced by the elected members. Only the tax-payers could attend the election. The administrator and the Medical Officer were also among the members of the committee. Beside this committee, there was also a Municipal Board.[5] In 1884, the committee was expanded to 21 according to the 3rd rule of Bengal Municipality act 1884. In 1921, the headquarter was shifted to the Municipality Building established near Sona Dighi, Rajshahi.[5] In 1930, 8 municipal committees were formed. The members of the councils were elected by vote for one year. Each committee had separate functions, such as public sanitation and health, public safety, welfare, education and water supply.[5] It gained status as the Rajshahi Municipality Corporation on 13 August 1987, and later renamed as Rajshahi City Corporation.[5]

Powers and responsibilities

  • City health department
  • Engineering department (Water supply)
  • Engineering department (Power supply)
  • Tax department
  • Conservancy department[6]

The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is responsible for administering the city and ensuring the provision of essential infrastructure and public services. Its functions include urban planning, transport management, healthcare, education, waste management, water supply, and security. Through these services, RCC aims to improve the quality of life for residents and promote sustainable urban development.

Departments of Rajshahi City Corporation
# Departments Functions / Services
1 Office of the Mayor Executive leadership; overall city governance; policy direction; supervision and coordination of all RCC departments
2 Chief Executive Office Inter-departmental coordination; monitoring implementation of services and development projects
3 Administration and Establishment Human resource management; staff recruitment, posting and promotion; internal discipline and service delivery oversight
4 Finance and Accounts Budget preparation; financial planning; revenue and expenditure control; payment processing; accounts management; internal audit
5 Engineering Infrastructure supervision; road-cutting permission; building plan approval; contractor enlistment; land demarcation certification
6 Urban Planning and Development Road, drain, bridge, culvert and footpath development; land development; planned residential areas; city beautification
7 Electricity Installation and maintenance of street lights; lamp-post management; city illumination
8 Transportation and Communication Urban transport management; traffic & parking control; emergency transport; corpse handling; bus terminal management; road roller & ambulance services
9 Waste Management and Cleaning Solid waste collection and disposal; street cleaning; drain clearing; mosquito control; landfill management
10 Health Hospital & clinic management; maternal & child immunization; vitamin A campaigns; midwifery and health technology training
11 Registrar Birth & death certificates; nationality, inheritance & character certificates
12 Education Management of schools, madrasas, Sanskrit tolls, kindergartens, technical institutes; adult education; teacher training; cultural & theatre institutes
13 Water Supply and Sewerage Water supply coordination; sewerage management under Rajshahi WASA
14 Revenue Trade license issuance & renewal; holding tax collection; shop/market allotment; lease and asset management
15 Security and Law and Order City security; joint operations with RMP; CCTV installation and monitoring
16 Magistracy Arbitration-based case settlement; mobile courts; anti-adulteration drives
17 Housing and Public Works Allocation, development and maintenance of residential plots, flats and metropolitan housing projects
18 Social welfare Welfare programs for the poor, elderly, women and persons with disabilities; social assistance; community development initiatives
19 Environmental and Public health Pollution control; sanitation monitoring; food safety; climate change adaptation and mitigation; urban greening and tree plantation
20 Disaster management and Relief Disaster preparedness and response; emergency rescue operations; relief distribution during floods, cyclones, fires and other natural calamities
21 Religious Welfare Support for religious festivals including Eid and Puja; regulation of Qurbani cattle markets; land allocation and logistical support for religious events

Budget

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) announced a budget of ৳1015 crore (US$83 million) for the 2023-24 fiscal year.[7]

Governance

Rajshahi City Corporation consists of 30 wards and 4 thanas such as, Boalia, Motihar, Rajpara and Shah Makhdum.[5]

Ward no The name of the police station Name of the mahalla
1 Rajpara 1. Kashaydanga (Kathalbariya)
2. Shahajipara
3. Raipara
4. Aduburi
5. Ghuripara
6. Salagacha
7. Hargram (Munshipara)
8. Hordupur (part of the city corporation)
2 Rajpara 9. Hargram Newpara
10. Hargram Newpara
11. Hargram Ranidighi
12. Hargram Colony
13. Hargram Bidirpara
14. Nagarpara
15. Mollapara
16. Sheikhpara
3 Rajpara 17. Tenpukur
18. Baharampur
19. New Bisimla
20. Laksmipur (dingadoba, northern part of the railway line)
4 Rajpara 21. Hargram Bazar (Padmakamini road south and east part)
22. Bulanpur
23. Goalpara
24 Keshabpur
25. Nawabganj
5 Rajpara 26. Rajpara
27 Mahisbathan
28 Kulupara
29 Bhatapara (including Helenabad colony)
6 Rajpara 30. Laxmipur (part) and Baharampur (southern part of the railway line). (Railway line north, south-lakshmipur road, east boundary of the medical campus, Lakshmipur district on the west)
7 Rajpara 31. Chandipur
32. The northern part of east and west of lakshmipur vatapara
33. Serampore
34. Betiapara
8 Boalia (Actually 8th Wald Boalia-Rajpar Police Station) 35. Kazihaata
36. Sepipara
9 Boalia (Actually 8th Wald Boalia-Rajpar Police Station) 37. Hosnaganj
38. Sheikhpara
39 Dargapara
40. Zodhash
41. Sherusarpara
10 Boalia (part) and Rajpara (part) 42 Hematch
43. Old Balsimla 44 Goalpara
45. Wapda Colony (Kalabagan)
46. Medical campus
11 Boalia 47. Hetmakhan Sajipara
48. Hetamkhana (Panabhar)
49. Malopara (western part)
50. Rajahata
51 Kadirganj (west part of the house)
52 Matherpara
53. Karikarpara
54 Shahajipara
12 Boalia 55 Fadkipara
56. Kumara Para
57 Sahib ganj
58 Saheb Bazar
59 Queen market
60 Malopara (eastern part)
61. Ganakpara
62. Miyapara
13 Boalia 63 Kadirganj (Gourhanga and Sthestala)
64. Dakkharbora (southern part of the railway line)
14 Boalia (part) and Rajpara part 65 Suburb
66. Terokhadia
15 Boalia 67. Sapura (Gorastan Para, Sahajipara, Polytechnic, Irrigation Division, Shalbagan)
68. Kadirganj is not rash
69. Dakhirbona (Northern Railway line)
16 Boalia 70 Sapura industrial area (including cantonment) 71 Zuranagar
72 Matherdanga
73. Bakhtiarabad
74. Kirender
17 Shah Makhdum 75. Bigger
76. Noadapara (According to Population Report 91, all areas covered in ward No. 17)
18 Boalia part and Shah Makhdum are part of it 77 Assam Colony
78. Poba
79 Poba Rice Mill
80 Ahmad Nagar
81. Firozabad
82 Poba new fringe
83. Poba, TTC
84. Poba Mathpukur
85. Shalbagan (north of the south-east side of the forest office)
19 Boalia 86. Headline Colony
87. Small forest colony
88. Small village
89. Shiroil Colony
90 Railway Colony
20 Boalia 91. Boalia Para
92 Sultanabad
21 Boalia 93. Ballavganj
94. Shiroil
22 Boalia 95. Sagorpara
96. Rampurbazar
97. Khansamarchak
98. Ghoramara (the eastern part of the road along the Kumarapara road)
23 Boalia 99 Explanation
100. Ramchandrapur (west)
24 Boalia 101. Bad Kajala (western)
102 Ramchandrapur (including Purbash Ahmadpur)
25 Boalia 103. Talaimari (west)
104. Raniagar (southern part)
26 Boalia 105. Meherchandi
106. Nostalgia
107. Chakpar Meherchandi
27 Motihar is part and Boalia part 108. Engineering College (BI)
109. Tikapara
110. Mirerchak
111. Raninagar (northern part)
112 Devi Shipping
113. Baliapukur
114. Shiroil Mathpukur
115. Over the groom
28 Motihar 116. Cajala
117. Dharampur
118. Talaimari (eastern part)
119. Bad kajla (eastern part)
120 Grazing land
29 Motihar 121 Sahtbariya
122 Khojapur
123 Dashmari
124.Care Satbariya
125.Sishampur Dashmari
30 Motihar 126. University campus
127. Mirzapur
128. Mascata Dighi (Mehrchandi)
129 Budhapara
130 Mohanpur
131. Fruit garden
132. Agricultural Firm
133 Science and Industrial Laboratory
134. Meherchandi Badhupara
Ward and councillor list
# Ward Councillor Party
1 Ward-1 Vacant TBD
2 Ward-2
3 Ward-3
4 Ward-4
5 Ward-5
6 Ward-6
7 Ward-7
8 Ward-8
9 Ward-9
10 Ward-10
11 Ward-11
12 Ward-12
13 Ward-13
14 Ward-14
15 Ward-15
16 Ward-16
17 Ward-17
18 Ward-18
19 Ward-19
20 Ward-20
21 Ward-21
22 Ward-22
23 Ward-23
24 Ward-24
25 Ward-25
26 Ward-26
27 Ward-27
28 Ward-28
29 Ward-29
30 Ward-30
Reserved Women's Councillor
31 Reserved women's seat-1 Vacant TBD
32 Reserved women's seat-2
33 Reserved women's seat-3
34 Reserved women's seat-4
35 Reserved women's seat-5
36 Reserved women's seat-6
37 Reserved women's seat-7
38 Reserved women's seat-8
39 Reserved women's seat-9
40 Reserved women's seat-10

List of mayors

Main article: Mayor of Rajshahi

Former Rajshahi City Corporation mayor and administrator's list:[8]

Status
  •   Acting Mayor, Administrator and Divisional Commissioner
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Designation Election Term of office Political
party 		Reference
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Advocate
M. Abdul Hadi
(?–?) 		Administrator — 13 August 1987 11 September 1988 2 years, 245 days Bangladesh Awami League
Mayor — 11 September 1988 15 April 1990
2 Durul Huda
(1955–2020) 		Mayor – 16 April 1990 6 November 1990 205 days Jatiya Party
– Mesbah Uddin Ahmed
(?–?) 		Acting Mayor – 6 November 1990 9 December 1990 33 days Independent
– Mohammad Saidur Rahman
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner – 15 December 1990 8 May 1991 144 days Independent
– NA Habibullah
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner – 8 May 1991 21 May 1991 13 days Independent
3 Mizanur Rahman Minu
(?–?) 		Mayor — 21 May 1991 30 December 1993 2 years, 223 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party
– M Aminul Islam
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner – 30 December 1993 11 March 1994 71 days Independent
4 Mizanur Rahman Minu
(?–?) 		Mayor
(First elected) 		1994

1999
2004

11 March 1995 11 June 2007 13 years, 92 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party
– Md. Rezwan Nobi Dudu
(?–?) 		Acting Mayor — 11 June 2007 14 September 2008 1 year, 95 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party
5 A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton
(born 1959) 		Mayor 2008 14 September 2008 5 September 2013 4 years, 356 days Bangladesh Awami League
6 Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul
(born 1965) 		Mayor 2013 18 September 2013 30 June 2018 4 years, 285 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party [9]
7 A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton
(born 1959) 		Mayor 2018
2023 		30 July 2018 19 August 2024 6 years, 20 days Bangladesh Awami League [10]
– Dr. Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner & Administrator – 19 August 2024 2 December 2024 105 days Independent [11]
– Khandkar Azim Ahmed
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner & Administrator – 2 December 2024 18 November 2025 351 days Independent
– Dr. A. N. M. Bazlur Rashid
(?–?) 		Divisional Commissioner & Administrator – 18 November 2025 14 March 2026 117 days Independent
– Md. Mahfuzur Rahman Riton
(?–?) 		Administrator – 14 March 2026 Incumbent 11 days Bangladesh Nationalist Party [12]

Past Elections

Election Result 2023

Main article: 2023 Rajshahi City Corporation election
Rajshahi Mayoral Election 2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AL A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton 160,290 81.87% +30.04
IAB Murshid Alam 13,483 6.89% New
Zaker Party Latif Anwar 11,713 5.98% New
JP(E) Saiful Islam Swapan 10,272 5.25% New
Majority 146,807 74.98% +47.60
Turnout 195,758 55.63% 20.65pp
Registered electors 351,982
AL hold

Election Result 2018

Rajshahi Mayoral Election 2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AL A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton 166,394 51.83% +12.89
BNP Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul 78,492 24.45% −36.52
Majority 87,902 27.38% +5.35
Turnout 244,886 76.28% 1.35pp
Registered electors 321,046
AL gain from BNP

Election Result 2013

Rajshahi Mayoral Election 2013
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BNP Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul 131,058 60.97% New
AL A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton 83,726 38.94% New
Majority 47,332 22.03% New
Turnout 214,784 74.93% New
Registered electors 286,917
BNP gain from AL

References

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  2. ^ "Sylhet, Barisal Rajshahi go to polls July 30". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Rajshahi: A model for tackling ambient air pollution in our cities". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Rajshahi: the city that took on air pollution – and won". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
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  6. ^ "Rajshahi - মিউনিসিপ্যাল ফাংশন - City Portal of Rajshahi, Bangladesh" (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2 April 2016.
  7. ^ "RCC announces Tk 1,015 crore budget". New Age. 16 November 2023.
  8. ^ পূর্বতন রাজশাহী সিটি কর্পোরেশনের মেয়র ও প্রশাসক (in Bengali). Retrieved 16 April 2016.
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  12. ^ "Administrators appointed to 5 more city corporations". Prothom Alo. 14 March 2026.

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