Cantonment board


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. The term of office of a member of a board is five years. A cantonment board consists of eight elected members, three nominated military members, three ex-officio members, and one representative of the district magistrate.
There are 64 Cantonment Boards in India.
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. As the resources are owned by government of India, it can't levy any tax. Government of India provides the financial assistance.
It shall is the duty of the president of the cantonment board:
In case of gross misconduct during the course of meeting to suspend a member other than a chief executive officer from attending the un-conduct part of the meeting of the Board.

List of cantonment boards

North

Himachal Pradesh
  1. Bakloh
  2. Dagshai
  3. Dalhousie
  4. Jutogh
  5. Kasauli
  6. Sabathu
  7. Yol
Jammu and Kashmir
  1. Badami Bagh
  2. Jammu

    North-West

Delhi
  1. Delhi
Haryana
  1. Ambala
Punjab
  1. Amritsar
  2. Firozpur
  3. Jalandhar
Rajasthan
  1. Ajmer
  2. Nasirabad

    North-Central

Uttarakhand
  1. Almora
  2. Chakrata
  3. Clement Town
  4. Dehradun
  5. Landour
  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. Allahabad
  3. Babina
  4. Bareilly
  5. Jhansi
  6. Kanpur
  7. Lucknow
  8. Faizabad
  9. Fatehgarh
  10. Mathura
  11. Meerut
  12. Shahjahanpur
  13. Varanasi

    West

Gujarat
  1. Ahmedabad
Maharashtra
  1. Ahmednagar
  2. Aurangabad
  3. Dehu Road
  4. Deolali
  5. Kamptee
  6. Khadki
  7. Pune

    East

Bihar
  1. Danapur
Jharkhand
  1. Ramgarh
Meghalaya
  1. Shillong
Odisha
  1. Gopalpur
West Bengal
  1. Barrackpur
  2. Dum Dum
  3. Jalapahar
  4. Lebong

    South

Karnataka
  1. Belgaum
Kerala
  1. Kannur
Tamil Nadu
  1. St. Thomas Mount cum Pallavaram, Chennai
  2. Wellington
Telangana
  1. Secunderabad