About Us

Municipal Engineering Directorate drew its essence from the 'Municipal Engineering Planning Stream' of the erstwhile Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organisation (CMPO) under T&CP Department of the State. With the abolition of the CMPO and to cope up with the increasing pressure of Development of the Municipal Towns of the State outside the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), it was decided by the State Government in 1978 to Transfer the 'Municipal Engineering Stream' of the T&CP Department to the Local Government & Urban Development Department. This Cell under the Local Government and Urban Development Department had rendered Technical Assistance to the ULBs. Feeling the need of dispersing the activities of the Cell to the entire State in view of the growing urbanization and larger financial outlay for development of ULBs by the State, the cell was reconstituted as a fully fledged Directorate in 1981 christened as 'Municipal Engineering Directorate' (MED). MED thus became responsible for the municipal development of the State for both planning, execution and monitoring of various Municipal Development Programme (MDP) in the ULBs by providing technical assistance to them. Due to phenomenal increase in the rate of municipalisation of urban area of the State in the early 90's coupled with an appreciable increase in the scope of the work, it was considered essential to make the services of MED readily and effectively available at the door-step of the ULBs for both Planning and implementation of their municipal development programme for which MED was created. As such the existing set up of MED was reconstructed further in the form of Circles, Divisions and Sub-Division which remains the set up of MED till to-day.