Srinagar Municipal Corporation (Uttarakhand)

This article is about the municipal corporation in Uttarakhand. For the municipal corporation of same name in Jammu and Kashmir, see Srinagar Municipal Corporation.

Srinagar Municipal Corporation श्रीनगर नगर निगम Srinagar Nagar Nigam
Unicameral Legislature
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
Leadership
Mayor	Arti Bhandari,Independent since 27 January 2025
Structure
Seats	40
Political groups	Government (18)   IND (18) Opposition (22)   BJP (16)   INC (6)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	23 January 2025
Next election	2030
Meeting place
Sri Bhavan, Sringar (proposed)

The Srinagar Municipal Corporation ^{[1] [2] [3]} is the civic body that governs the city of Srinagar in Uttarakhand, India. Srinagar is the only hill-area in garhwal that has the status of municipal corporation.

Structure

This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

List of mayors

S. No.	Name	Term			Party
1	Arti Bhandari	27 January 2025	Incumbent	4 days	Independent

Current members

Srinagar Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Srinagar, Uttarakhand is Independent politician Arti Bhandari, who was also a BJP-rebel candidate. ^[4]

Mayor: Arti Bhandari
Ward No	Ward Name	Name of Corporator	Party [5]		Remarks
1	Haddy May Dungripanth	Rajendra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Farasu May Koteshwar	Vijay Kumar Chamoli		Independent
3	Swit May Gahad	Usha Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Medical College Corridor Road	Kusumlata Bisht		Independent
5	Base Hospital	Pooja Barthawal		Independent
6	Lingwal Market May Tolyusain	Bhavna Chauhan		Independent
7	Shivalay May Krishna Mandir	Guddi Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Nagaraja Sain	Meena Devi		Independent
9	Tolyusain May Kandai	Sunita Gairola		Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Revdi Ghasia Mahadev	Ashish Negi		Independent
11	Dam Colony May Kothad	Anjana Dobhal		Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Agency Mohalla May Kevat Mohalla	Shubham Kumar Prabhakar		Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Banswada May Brahman Mohalla	Anjani Bhandari		Independent
14	Upper Bazaar	Devendra Mani		Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Thana Marg May Alaknanda Vihar	Anurag Chauhan		Indian National Congress
16	Pragati Vihar-1	Raj Kumar		Indian National Congress
17	Pragati Vihar-2	Rekha Devi		Indian National Congress
18	Ganesh Bazaar May Ramlila Maidan	Jhabar Singh Rawat		Bharatiya Janata Party
19	Bhagirathipuram	Rashmi		Indian National Congress
20	Kalyaneshwar Mandir May Sabzi Mandi	Ujjwal Agarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party
21	Niranjani Baang May Dak Bungalow	Anjana Rawat		Independent
22	Mistri Mohalla	Kusumlata		Indian National Congress
23	Bajiro Ka Bagh May Highdeal Colony	Deepak		Bharatiya Janata Party
24	Treasury Road May Tiwari Mohalla	Ramesh Ramola		Bharatiya Janata Party
25	Glass House May University	Vikas Chauhan		Independent
26	Kamleshwar Baghwan	Suraj Negi		Indian National Congress
27	Kedar Mohalla May Central School	Meena Aswal		Bharatiya Janata Party
28	Ragda Baghwan May Amrakanj	Jaipal Singh		Independent
29	Upper Bhaktiyana May Sheetal Mata	Pooja Kimothi		Independent
30	Shakti Vihar Polytechnic	Himanshu Bahuguna		Bharatiya Janata Party
31	Chauhan Mohalla May Fatehpureti	Sumit Singh Bisht		Independent
32	Aithana Dang-1	Pankaj Kumar Sati		Bharatiya Janata Party
33	Aithana Dang-2	Akshitesh Naithani		Independent
34	Aithana Dang-3	Dinesh Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
35	Aithana Dang-4	Pravesh Chandra Chamoli		Independent
36	Aithana Dang-5	Pradeep Rana		Independent
37	Anchal Dairy May Sinchai Vibhag	Dharma Singh Rawat		Independent
38	Uphalda Upper	Narendra Singh Rawat		Independent
39	Uphalda-2	Surendra Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
40	Vaidyagaon May Nakot	Sandeep Singh Rawat		Independent

Election results

The Srinagar Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.

Mayoral

Year	No. of Wards	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
		Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Candidate	Votes	%
2025	40		Independent	Arti Bhandari	7,956	41.12		Bharatiya Janata Party	Asha Upadhyay	6,317	32.17	1,639

Ward-wise

2025

Srinagar Municipal Corporation

Party		Won	+/−
	Independents	18	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	16	New
	Indian National Congress	6	New
Total		40

References

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2. "Srinagar will be made a municipal corporation - श्रीनगर को बनाया जाएगा नगर निगम". Livehindustan.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
3. "Pauri news of shrinagar municipal corporation issue protests against dhan singh rawat - श्रीनगर नगर निगम मुद्दा : BJP-कांग्रेस पौड़ी में आमने-सामने, ऐसे हो रहा है मंत्री धनसिंह रावत का विरोध – News18 हिंदी". Hindi.news18.com. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
4. "Uttarakhand Nikay Chunav: Who is Aarti Bhandari, the first mayor of Srinagar?". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 January 2025.
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