How we started

 

The commencement of the present effort can be traced to a workshop jointly organised by USAID, NIUA, USAEP , ICMA and GOK in August 2000. This workshop saw the active participation of City Managers' ULBs and state government officials. It was from the deliberations at this workshop that an outline was provided for the formation of City Managers' Association, Karnataka.

 

CMAK was registered in December 2002 under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960. The Executive body of CMAK consists of 39 members from all categories of ULBs, UDAs, and state level statutory bodies across Karnataka with adequate geographic and category representation of urban bodies and includes officers from all three cadres IAS, KAS and KMAS and officers from the technical services such as Engineering, Water Supply, Town Planning and Health.