The head of a Municipal Committee is known as

India's urban areas are governed by Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) under the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992. Depending on the size and nature of the urban area, a ULB takes one of three forms — a Municipal Corporation for large cities, a Municipal Committee (or Council) for smaller towns, and a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area — and each form has its own presiding head, whose method of selection (direct election by voters, or indirect election by or from the elected members) is set by the applicable state's municipal law.

A Municipal Corporation's presiding head is called the Mayor. A Municipal Committee, being a smaller urban body than a Corporation, is instead headed by a Chairperson (called Adhyaksha), who presides over the Committee's meetings and functions — the exact mode of choosing the Chairperson (direct election by voters, or indirect election by the councillors) is left to each state's own municipal law, but the presiding office itself is always the Chairperson, not the Mayor. Since the question specifically asks about a Municipal Committee, and not a Corporation, its head is the Chairperson.

• Councillor — an ordinary elected member of the Committee, not its presiding head.

• Mayor — the presiding head of a Municipal Corporation, a larger urban body, not of a Municipal Committee.

• Collector — a state civil-service officer who heads district administration and revenue functions, entirely outside a Municipal Committee's own elected leadership.