Cantonment board

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A cantonment board is a civic administration body in India under control of the Ministry of Defence. The board comprises elected members besides ex-officio and nominated members as per the Cantonments Act, 2006. [1] The term of office of a member of a board is five years. [2] A cantonment board consists of eight elected members, three nominated military members, three ex-officio members (station commander, garrison engineer and senior executive medical officer), and one representative of the district magistrate.

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There are 66 Cantonment Boards in India, managed by Directorate General Defence Estates (DGDE). [3]

Cantonments are divided into four categories, namely,

  1. Category I – population exceeds fifty thousand
  2. Category II – population exceeds ten thousand, but does not exceed fifty thousand
  3. Category III – population exceeds two thousand five hundred, but does not exceed ten thousand
  4. Category IV – population does not exceed two thousand five hundred.

Functions

The cantonment board takes care of mandatory duties such as provision of public health, water supply, sanitation, primary education, and street lighting etc. [4] As the resources are owned by Government of India, (1) For every cantonment there shall be a Cantonment Board. (2) Every Board shall be deemed to be a municipality under clause (e) of article 243P of the Constitution for the purposes of- (a) receiving grants and allocations; or (b) implementing the Central Government schemes of social welfare, public health, hygiene, safety, water supply, sanitation, urban renewal and education. It is the duty of the president of the cantonment board:

List of cantonment boards

North

Himachal Pradesh

  1. Bakloh (near Chamba)
  2. Dagshai (near Solan)
  3. Dalhousie Cantonment (Near Chamba)
  4. Jutogh (near Shimla)
  5. Kasauli (Solan)
  6. Sabathu (near Solan)

Jammu and Kashmir

  1. Badami Bagh (near Srinagar)
  2. Jammu

North-West

Delhi

  1. Delhi

Haryana

  1. Ambala

Punjab

  1. Amritsar
  2. Firozpur
  3. Jalandhar

North-Central

Uttarakhand

  1. Almora
  2. Chakrata
  3. Clement Town (near Dehradun)
  4. Dehradun
  5. Landour (near Mussoorie)
  6. Lansdowne
  7. Nainital
  8. Ranikhet
  9. Roorkee

Central

Madhya Pradesh

  1. Jabalpur
  2. Mhow
  3. Morar
  4. Pachmarhi
  5. Sagar

Uttar Pradesh

  1. Agra
  2. Ayodhya
  3. Babina (near Jhansi)
  4. Bareilly
  5. Jhansi
  6. Kanpur
  7. Lucknow
  8. Fatehgarh
  9. Mathura
  10. Meerut
  11. Prayagraj
  12. Shahjahanpur
  13. Varanasi

West

Rajasthan

  1. Ajmer
  2. Nasirabad (near Ajmer)

Gujarat

  1. Ahmedabad

Maharashtra

  1. Ahmednagar
  2. Aurangabad
  3. Dehu Road (in Pune)
  4. Deolali (near Nashik)
  5. Kamptee (near Nagpur)
  6. Khadki (in Pune)
  7. Camp (in Pune)

East

Bihar

  1. Danapur

Jharkhand

  1. Ramgarh

Meghalaya

  1. Shillong

West Bengal

  1. Barrackpur
  1. Jalapahar (in Darjeeling)
  2. Lebong (in Darjeeling)

South

Karnataka

  1. Belgaum

Kerala

  1. Kannur

Tamil Nadu

  1. St.Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram (in Chennai)
  2. Wellington

Telangana

  1. Secunderabad

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References

  1. "Cantonments Act, 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
  2. Government of India (1 August 2014). "Election for Cantonment Boards". Elections of Cantonment Board. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  3. "Annual Administration Report 2020-21" (PDF). dgde.gov.in. Directorate General Defence Estates, Ministry of Defence. p. 5. Retrieved 4 May 2022. There are 62 Cantonments in the country located in 19 States/UT
  4. cantonment board of Delhi. "functions and Duties" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.