Chittagong City Corporation descended from the name of Chittagong Municipality which was founded on June 22, 1863. The initial area of newly formed Municipality was only 6 Sq. Miles. There were 5 wards viz A, B, C, D and E. Mr. J. D. Ward was first appointed administrator. Late Khan Bahadur Abdus Sattar was the first elected Chairman of Chittagong Municipality. Late Nur Ahmed was the most significant Chairman in the life of Municipality who introduced the important Education System under Municipal supervision. He governed the organization for 30 years.
On June 27, 1977 Chittagong Municipality was renamed as Chittagong Paura-Shava and Late Fazal Karim became the first elected Chairman of Paura-Shava.
On September 16, 1982 the Paura-Shava was upgraded to Municipal Corporation and Brigadier Mofizur Rahman Chowdhury was appointed as the Administrator while Late Fazal Karim became the Sub-Administrator.
Later on July 31, 1990 it was renamed as Chittagong City Corporation and government appointed Mr. Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury as Mayor. Later Mr. Mir Mohammed Nasiruddin ascended as Mayor and continued until the first election in 1994. Mr. A.B.M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury became the first democratically elected Mayor in the history of Chittagong City Corporation. Alhaj M. Manjur Alam was elected in the last City Corporation election held in 2010. Currently the City Corporation area is divided into 41 wards.
Description based on manuscript deed
"Committee for the sanitary improvement of the town of Chittagong" was formed, before the registration of the municipal board, for the development of public health and communication of the city. The first seminar of the committee was organist 14th may, 1856 in the office of divisional commissioner (Preceding: 1856: 5-6). Commissioner C. Stear was the president. The other members who were present in seminar were C. Chapman, W. Bitson, J. Spanki, H. J. Bember, W. H. Henderson, G.C. Flacher, Thakur Box Tiwari, and Haro Chandra Roy. The total member in the committee was 9 along with the president.
In the first seminar water drainage was the main subject of discussion. The water drainage was the serious problem in those areas where country people resided. A greater stress was implemented on the development of the natural canals. Before taking this job in hand, for comparative measurement of the lands and canals the responsibility was given to a survey company named m/s Jarvis & Rassel. For faster execution of secretarial job the power was given for approving fund to the survey company in advance. It was decided that the advance can be given from one thousand taka approval of Lt. Governor.
The other decision which was taken in the seminar was to make city forest fee and for the development of the water drainages system 5 sub committee based on different area was formed by the member of the committee. The name of Jervis and Rassel was also enlisted in the committee. A request was forwarded to the magistrate so that the prisoners can be appointed within the sub committee and their labor can be utilized in the development works. The members of the sub committee were provided with accommodations within the city so that they can look after and distribute the development work in a proper way. Without wasting any time and to start off with work from the next Monday, resolution for the appointment of the prisoners in the sub committee was again taken. Since there will be fund crisis after the starting of the development work, so the secretary was requested to make arrangement for funds from the Lt. Governors committed amount of ten thousand taka.
The work report of ‘the committee for the improvement of the town of Chittagong’...
