[2] The GMC is formally headed by Mrs. Shobha Satish Sikarwar(INC), present Mayor of Gwalior.

The commissioner of Gwalior is the highest officer of Municipal Corporate Office, which is responsible for the departments of public works, revenue and tax, water supply, planning and development, fire brigade, health and sanitation, finance and accounts etc.

In 1904, general functions of urban local bodies like city planning, sanitation etc.

After the implementation of Municipal Corporation Act in the year 1913, a separate governing body was established by the elected members of board and His Highness, Madhavrao Scindia resigned from the post of chairperson which he occupied until 1912.

Salient features of this amendment included the power to select Chairperson through voting by the members of the Council.

This led to an increase in the limits of Gwalior Municipal Corporation to include another 18 square miles.

The term of the Council ended in 1987 which led to the State Government taking charge of the Corporation for 7 years.