Lucknow Municipal Corporation

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Lucknow Municipal Corporation

Lucknow Nagar Nigam
LMC Logo.jpg
Seal of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation
Type
Type
Term limits
5 years
History
Founded1884;140 years ago (1884) as Lucknow Municipal Board
Leadership
Indrajeet singh, IAS
Structure
Seats110
Lucknow Municipal Corporation 2023.svg
Political groups
Government (80)
  •   BJP (80) [1]

Opposition (26)

 Other (4)

Length of term
5 years
Elections
Last election
4 May 2023
Next election
2028
Motto
Clean Lucknow, Beautiful Lucknow
Meeting place
Municipal Corporation Head Office, Lalbagh, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Website
lmc.up.nic.in

Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is a local government for Lucknow, the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration in the city of Lucknow. In 2024, LMC passed a budget of 2865 Crore INR for the financial year 2024-2025. [2]

Contents

Main functions

This local governing body is responsible for planning and development of several civic community and infrastructure within different parts of the city. The LMC is concerned with providing local amenities to the citizens.

Apart from these social services, the LMC is concentrating on preserving the city heritage structure and buildings. The municipality is responsible for issuing of birth and death certificate to city residents. This policy helps in maintaining a record on the population growth rate.

The city development plan (CDP) is a project undertaken by LMC in association with JNNURM. The main purpose of this project is to offer a through city assessment. This is required for development of the Lucknow city in the near future. There is a 3-tier strategy to be implanted under this plan:

The CDP formulation procedure was carried out after consulting the entire stakeholders associated with this project. One on one discussion session with every stakeholder was carried out.

Under the three-tier strategy, major issues to be focused and services offered include:

Another project undertaken by LMC is city GIS mapping. The municipality will conduct a detailed GIS mapping of the city. This will help in locating any area within the city through internet. It is also a part of JNNURM program. Funding for this project is being provided by Central Government.

Developments

On 2 December 2020, LMC got listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), becoming the first civic body in north India to issue bonds under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). [3]

Departments

There are 7 working departments which comes under LMC.

  1. Health Department
  2. Home Tax Department
  3. Air Quality Management
  4. Garden Department
  5. Publicity Department
  6. Accounts Department
  7. Property Department

Administration

The current municipal commissioner is IAS Indrajeet Singh.

LMC Officials
PostIncumbentSinceAppointed/ ElectedReferences
Mayor Shushma Kharakwal26 May 2023Elected in 2023 LMC elections. [4]
Municipal Commissioner Indrajeet Singh (IAS)26 June 2022Appointed by Government of Uttar Pradesh [5]

Legislature

LMC consists of 110 wards [6] [7] for which a quinquennial election is held to elect corporators, who are responsible for basic civic infrastructure and enforcing duty in their constituencies (wards).

Various political parties nominate their candidates and the people of respective wards cast their votes during elections to elect the corporator for their ward.

Mayor

The mayor is elected from within the ranks of the council in a quinquennial election. The elections are conducted in all 110 wards in the city to elect corporators. The party that wins the maximum number of seats holds an internal voting to decide the mayor. Mayor is considered as the first citizen of the city.

Shushma Kharakwal is the current mayor of Lucknow since 26 May 2023. She was elected in the 2023 LMC elections after defeating her closest rival the SP candidate Vandana Mishra by a margin of 52,699 votes. [8] She is the second female mayor of the city after her predecessor Sanyukta Bhatia.

LMC elections

Mayor elections

2023

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2023
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shushma Kharakwal5,02,66048.52
SP Vandana Mishra2,98,51928.81
INC Sangeeta Jaiswal1,02,6339.91
BSP Shaheen Bano75,9977.34
AAP Anju Bhatt25,2062.43
NOTA None of the Above 24,2412.34
Margin of victory2,04,14119.71Increase2.svg 5.11
Turnout 10,29,256
BJP hold Swing

2017

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2017
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sanyukta Bhatia 3,77,16641.94
SP Meera Vardhan2,45,81027.34
INC Prema Awasthi1,09,57112.19
BSP Bulbul Godiyal83,1209.24
AAP Priyanka Maheshwari24,5772.73
NOTA None of the Above 5,4490.61
Margin of victory1,31,35614.60
Turnout 8,99,21438.64
BJP hold Swing

2012

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2012
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dr. Dinesh Sharma 3,35,106
INC Dr. Neeraj Bora 1,63,282
Margin of victory1,71,824
Turnout N/A
BJP hold Swing

2006

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2006
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dr. Dinesh Sharma 2,21,71330.33
INC Dr. Manzoor Ahmed2,12,41029.05
SP Dr. Madhu Gupta 1,58,91821.74
IND. Shiv Kumar Gupta34,1554.67
IND. Shailesh Kumar Singh25,6313.51
RLD Bhawaan Singh Rawat15,4762.12
IND. Mahesh Diwan11,1691.53
Margin of victory9,3031.28
Turnout 7,31,097N/A
BJP hold Swing

Corporator elections

2023

S.NoParty NameParty flag or symbolNumber of CorporatorsChange
01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Bharatiya Janata Party logo.svg
80Increase2.svg22
02 Samajwadi Party (SP)
Samajwadi Party.png
21Decrease2.svg7
03 Indian National Congress (INC)
Indian National Congress hand logo.svg
4Decrease2.svg4
04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Elephant Bahujan Samaj Party.svg
1Decrease2.svg1
05 Independents
No flag.svg
4Decrease2.svg10

2017

S.No.Party NameParty flag or symbolNumber of CorporatorsChange
01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bharatiya Janata Party logo.svg 58Increase2.svg14
02 Samajwadi Party (SP)
Samajwadi Party.png
28
03 Indian National Congress (INC) INC Logo.png 8Decrease2.svg3
04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Elephant Bahujan Samaj Party.svg 2New
05 Independents No flag.svg 14Decrease2.svg40

Source: [9]

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