Municipal Corporation

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) or the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai. It was incepted under Bombay Municipal Corporation Act 1888. It is responsible for administering and providing basic infrastructure to the city, and suburbs. The corporation is headed by a Municipal commissioner, an IAS office. A quinquennial election is held to elect the corporaters to the power.  The Mayor heads the party with largest vote. The BMC is responsible for maintenance of roads, streets, flyovers, public municipal schools,  water supply and purification, hospitals, street lighting, maintenance of parks and open local spaces, sewage treatment and disposal, garbage disposal, street cleanliness, aiding in prevention of epidemic outbreaks through mass production of medicines at the Haffkine Institute,  cemeteries and crematoriums registering of births and deaths and lighthouses.

Control room: 22694727
For emergency complaints like building or wall collapses, call 1916.
For fallen trees, short circuits or fire, call 101 or 23085991.
For drainage related complaints, call 1916.
Drainage control rooms: 23678109 (city), 26146852 (western suburbs) or 25153258 (eastern suburbs)

MUNICIPAL SERVICES

Water supply
Phone: 2620961

Eastern Suburbs : 5123249
Western Suburbs: 6146852/6182008

Supdt. Of Park & Gardens,
Jija Mata Udyan, Byculla,
Mumbai-400027
Phone: 3723578, 3725799

National Society of  The Friends of Trees
Union Co-op ins. Bldg.
3rd Floor, 23,
P.M. Road,
Fort, Mumbai-400001
Phone: 2870860