The Directorate of Municipal Administration was set up in the year 1969. The main function of the Directorate of Municipal Administration is to guide the Urban Local Bodies in performance of their functions smoothly, exercise control- over the Budgets of the Urban Local Bodies of Assam, act as coordinator between the Government in Department of Housing & Urban Affairs and local bodies in respect of their needs and problems and putting those before the Government.

The Directorate of Municipal Administration exercise its control-over all 103 ULBs of the State.