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Indication of New era
Kolhapur municipality was established on 12 October 1854.
Establishment of municipality initiated planning of modern Kolhapur
city. Efforts were done with elaborate planning to develop stable and
comfortable citylife. The radient indication of modern enhancement of
city growth, happiness, health & beauty started reflecting in varous
fields.
The period from 1941 to 1944 was the golden period in the
history of municipality. There were major changes in varous fields.
In the three year election of March 1941 local self government was
established. A control board of three persons i.e. Bhai. Madhavrao
Bagal, Seth Govindrao Korgaonkar, Shri Ratnappa Kumbhar was
appointed in it. Motto of this board "To reserve the society without any
discrimination. There is no linking of this board to any political
organization. Whatever rights are confessed by government to citizens
should be utilized fully is prime duty of the board." is declared in the
board's manifesto.
Progress of Corporation
The period from 1954 to 71 was the period of speedy growth of
Kolhapur city. It is seen that the municipality moved towards
corporation status during this period. It is seen from records that in
1960, there were 44 members in municipality. Out of them 37 were
from general category, 3 from reserved backward category and 4 from
women reserved category. The municipal working was based on
administrative triangle of general body meeting, chief officer and
standing committee. Engineers, health officers, account officers,
supervisors, octroi and tax officers used to help Chief officer. In 1956-
c57, the annual income of municipality was Rs. 33,21,213 through
taxes and other means, and the expenditure was Rs. 29,29,161. This
indicates the growing business of municipality. During this period
network of roads was constructed in the city. New bridges were
constructed as per requirement. Water supply was made more
effective. New markets, gardens were constructed to make the city
more beautiful.
Effective growth in industrialization in Kolhapur resulted in starting a
new industrial era, due to devoted efforts of Y. P. Pawar, Mhadba
Mistri, Tatya Shinde, and Late. Rambhai Samani. The large area of
Udyam nagari was busy in preparing machinery and spare parts. The
products from Kolhapur Industrial Estate started getting exported to
number of Asian and African companies. Municipality helped the
growth of industry in many ways.
During this period only Shivaji University was established at the hands
of Dr. Radhakrishnan in 1962. Thus municipality helped in
restructuring industry and education. In December 1972 the municipal
council was dissolved.
Corporation during Administrative Rule
On 15th Dec. 1972, the municipal council was converted into
corporation.
The corporation was need of the time to solve growing urban problem
due to growing population. During 1972-78, Dwarkanath Kapoor, Shri
N. M. Devsthale, Shri D. T. Joseph, Shri V. N. Makhija worked as
administrators.
Revised city development plan is the main success of corporation. The
suburb towns were planned as per town development plan scheme of
1960. The displaced citizens were rehabilitated properly.
Era of elected body of members
In August 1978, the first people elected corporation was formed in
true sense. During this period, Shri Babasaheb Kasabekar (1978-79),
Shri Nanasaheb Yadav, (1979-80), Late Shri D. N. Kanerkar (1980),
Baburao Parkhe (1980-81), Prof. Shri Subhash Rane were mayors and
they contributed significantly in the development of Kolhapur city.
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