According to Census of India 2011, the area under the municipal body is 175.12 sq km and the population is 1,073,427.
[8] The municipal corporation covers an area of 175.12 sq km and is divided into 55 administrative wards, each represented by an elected councillor.
[12] Some important departments at the Corporation are: Accounts, Birth & Death Registration, Bhoosampada, Engineering, Health, Revenue, Town Planning, and Water supply.
[14] The 2018 municipal election was the first time the mayoral and deputy mayoral candidates in Jharkhand could use political party symbols, while the candidates for councilor seats continued to use symbols allotted to them by the Jharkhand State Election Commission.
[15] According to the Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011, around 50% of the seats are to be reserved for the following categories: The seats reserved for persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories will be proportionate to their population share in the municipality.
[17] The Act also mandates the setting up of Zonal Committees, each representing groups of wards in the city.
[5] The function of the Zonal committees is to look after the issues felt at each zone, report them to the corporation, and prepare solutions for the same.
Expenditures for the corporation include purchasing water tanks, maintaining night shelters, construction of infrastructure such as roads and footbridges, vending zone, improving facilities at government schools.
[22] It has also constructed public toilets in Ranchi and has outsourced the maintenance to private entities.
[23] The corporation is responsible for the installation and maintenance of street lights in the city and for painting safety marking on the roads.
[24][25] The municipal corporation is also responsible for constructing roads, and is planning to develop sky escalators to ease traffic.
[28][29][30] The Ranchi Municipal Corporation plans on reopening and operating the only electric crematorium in the city.
[36] During his tenure RMC has achieved some milestones in e services which includes Computerization of Birth & Death Registration System, Building Plan Approval Management System using Auto-DCR, Online payment of Property Tax, Online Assessment of Properties, Single Window for Municipal License and Water Connection, Master Plan Management System, HRIS for RMC Staffs, e-Rickshaw Management System, Online Registration of Lodge, Hostel & Banquet Halls, Marriage Registration & official web portal of RMC i.e www.ranchimunicipal.com.