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Mandalay City Development Committee
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Functions and duties
The functions and duties of the Mandalay City Development Committee are as follows.
1. With government approval, the Committee may expand, establish, revise, designate or abolish departments and staff structures as necessary.
2. The Committee must draft the rules necessary for departments established under this Law to perform their duties and submit them to the government.
3. The Committee must formulate policy, provide guidance, supervise and implement the following duties:
(a) Organizing and supervising training needed to improve municipal staff capacity and providing guidance on personnel matters.
(b) Formulating policy, providing guidance, supervising and implementing matters concerning land under the Committee's management authority.
(c) Constructing and maintaining public gardens, parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities and spaces, swimming pools, bathing places, bathrooms, toilets and drinking-water stands; arranging, supervising and maintaining vacant land for convenient public use.
(d) Organizing discussions, exhibitions, competitions and talks to support municipal activities.
(e) Constructing city and long-distance transport terminals and establishing and operating vehicle sales centers.
(f) Setting and supervising rules on movement and parking of motor vehicles and slow-moving vehicles, vehicle sales centers, and vehicle repair and assembly businesses.
(g) Setting rules by type of slow-moving vehicle, issuing vehicle and driver licenses, inspection and supervision, time-limited suspension, temporary suspension for failure to renew within the prescribed period, scrutiny, approval and cancellation.
(h) Establishing, managing, supervising and enforcing traffic and road-use rules within the city; naming wards and roads and assigning building numbers.
(i) In relation to buffalo, cattle and domestic animals:
- Setting rules and granting permission for keeping, breeding, herding, transporting and riding animals.
- Establishing, managing and supervising cattle and buffalo markets.
- Establishing meat-production facilities for public consumption; managing and supervising meat processing, production, systematic packing and transport, distribution and sale, and the production, transport and sale of meat, fish and domestic animals.
- Supervising, inspecting and taking action against illegal meat production, storage and transport.
- Eliminating stray dogs, rats, crows and other disease-carrying animals that endanger public health; constructing animal pounds and capturing, detaining and taking action concerning animals roaming without control.
- Constructing, repairing, expanding, maintaining and managing markets.
- Setting and enforcing rules concerning roadside stalls and encroaching vendors.
- Environmental conservation and waste management.
- Designating, relocating, closing, repurposing, managing and supervising waste bins, tanks, temporary collection sites, transfer stations and final disposal sites.
- Measuring and establishing environmental quality standards, including emissions, liquid and solid discharges, production methods, processes and products, to conserve and improve the city's environment; directing compliance and taking enforcement action.
- Defining ferry boundaries and routes; permitting ferry businesses; issuing, suspending and cancelling licenses; managing and supervising operations; and coordinating ferry revenue matters with adjoining regions, districts and townships.
- Permitting, managing and supervising brokerage businesses and private pawnshops.
- Preventing natural disasters such as fire, floods, storms and earthquakes; insuring necessary Committee property against fire; and ordering or carrying out removal or demolition of buildings and huts that pose fire or other hazards.
- Requiring dangerous wells, ponds and pools to be fenced and repaired; requiring unhygienic wells, ponds, reservoirs, water containers and similar facilities to be cleaned, repaired, refilled or covered.
- Ensuring fire safety in residential buildings and buildings used for public entertainment and events.
- Coordinating with relevant departments to refer and provide care for wandering people with mental illness, people with skin diseases and people who beg.
- Constructing cremation facilities, granting burial permission, and managing and supervising funeral services.
- Designating and relocating cemeteries, prohibiting continued use, closing or abolishing them, repurposing abolished cemetery land, and managing and supervising these activities.
- Providing timely public information about obstructions and hazards that may harm people.
- Using various public communication methods to inform all residents and people entering or leaving the city promptly about Committee policy measures, prohibitions and penalties.
- Prohibiting the trade and transport of meat, fish and other items that are offensive and dangerous.
- Managing, supervising, regulating and taking enforcement action on road construction within the city.
- Providing water supply and constructing, repairing and maintaining ponds, reservoirs and water pipelines.
- Permitting, managing and regulating groundwater drilling, extraction, use and distribution.
- Taking responsibility for municipal tax and fee collection and municipal services; where necessary, assigning suitable organizations or individuals for an appropriate period through transparent contracts, auctions, tenders or other suitable arrangements.
- Where urban development requires it, implementing more beneficial plans in place of original arrangements for Committee-owned or managed land, vacant plots and reserve land, with government agreement.
- Undertaking other municipal activities that benefit the public.
- Preventing, prohibiting and removing encroachment within municipal boundaries; where necessary, using appropriate force to have encroaching structures and buildings removed and taking enforcement action.
4. The Committee may coordinate with relevant government departments and organizations as necessary to perform its duties more effectively.
E-government and office systems
For e-government, the Mandalay City Development Committee has implemented information and communication technology to support office management, particularly public services. The source lists the following office systems as being in operation:
- Fleet Management with GPS Tracking System
- Digital Weighbridge System for Waster Collection
- Vehicle Management System
- Fuel Management System
- Tube well and Pumping Station Meter management with IoTs SCADA system
- Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) System with LoRaWAN System
- Meter Unit Collection Mobile Application for old water meter
- Smart Street Light System
- Intelligent Traffic Control System with SCATs
- Intelligent Vehicle Information Management System
- Mandalay Digital Map
- Upgrading Mandalay Zip code
- Renaming Mandalay Road Project
- Household Survey
- Household System
- Integrated MCDC Billing System
- Mandalay Smart Pay Wallet with 2C2P and Yadanabon bank
- Digital Challan System
- Budgetary System
- Electronic Toll Collection System
- Integrated Human Resource Management System
- Market Information Management System
- Online Business License Registration System
- Building Permit Management System
- Billboard management System
- Land Record Registration System
- Wheel Tax Registration with RFID System
- Municipal Mobile Application
- Mandalay City Mobile Application
- Office Dashboard management System
Organizational structure of the Mandalay City Development Committee

Website address
Department nameMandalay City Development Committee
Phone 02-4036171 / 02-4036170
Email address - information@mcdc.gov.mm / support@mcdc.gov.mm
Address 26th Street, between 71st and 72nd Streets, Chan Aye Tharsan Township, Mandalay Region
Available services
(1)https://app.mcdc.gov.mm/business_license/#/dashboard
(2) City Mobile Application
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