Lucknow Municipal Corporation

Lucknow Municipal Corporation

Lucknow Nagar Nigam
Lucknow Municipal Corporation ; Lucknow Nagar Nigam
	Seal of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	1884; 140 years ago as Lucknow Municipal Board
Leadership
Mayor	Sanyukta Bhatia (BJP)
Deputy Mayor	Vacant
Municipal Commissioner	Ajay Kumar Diwedi, IAS
Structure
Seats	110
Political groups	Government(58) BJP: (58); Opposition(28) SP: (28); Others(24) INC: (8); BSP: (2); IND (14);
Elections
Last election	26 November 2017
Next election	2022
Motto
	स्वछ लखनऊ, सुंदर लखनऊ (Hindi) ; Clean Lucknow, Beautiful Lucknow
Meeting place
	Municipal Corporation Head Office, Lalbagh, Lucknow
Website
	lmc.up.nic.in

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Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) is the Municipal Corporation for 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 short it is also known as LMC. It is the local government of the Lucknow city and it is one of the largest municipal corporations in India with the population of approximately more than 5 million people in the year 2020.

In 2021, LMC passed a budget of 1946.82 Crore INR for the financial year 2021-2022.^[1]

Main Functions of the Corporation

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. Have a look at some of its major functions -

Maintenance & development of roads, subways, bridges, and flyovers
Spreading green environment concept
Developing the slums into better living zones for backward classes
Construction of health units, schools, and food canteens
Garbage disposal unit at every part of the city
Providing sufficient water and electricity facility
Free education with meal and clothes to poverty ridden children up to 12 years

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:

Infrastructure & service delivery improvement
Basic services to urban poor
Institutional & governance reforms

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:

Water Supply
Sewerage and Sanitation
Solid Waste Management
Drainage
Transportation

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).^[2]

Departments

There are 7 working departments which comes under LMC.

Health Department
Home Tax Department
Air Quality Management
Garden Department
Publicity Department
Accounts Department
Property Department

Administration

The LMC is headed by an IAS officer who serves as Municipal Commissioner and appointed by the Uttar Pradesh Government, having all the executive powers.
The Mayor, usually from the majority party, serves as head of the house. Mayor is known as the first citizen of the city.

The current mayor of the LMC is Sanyukta Bhatia while the current municipal commissioner is Ajay Kumar Dwivedi (IAS).

LMC Officials
Post	Incumbent	Since	Appointed/ Elected	References
Mayor	Sanyukta Bhatia (BJP)	12 December 2017	Elected in 2017 LMC Elections	^[3]
Deputy Mayor	Vacant	-	-	-
Municipal Commissioner	Ajay Kumar Dwivedi (IAS)	17 August 2020	Appointed by Government of Uttar Pradesh	^[4]

Legislature

LMC consists of 110 wards^[5]^[6] 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.

Mayors

All Mayors of LMC are listed below:^[7]

Mayor	Term Start	Term Ended
Raj Kumar Srivastava	1 February 1960	1 February 1961
Giriraj Dharna Rastogi	2 February 1961	1 May 1962
Purushottam Das Kapoor	2 May 1962	1 May 1964
V R Mohan	2 May 1964	1 May 1965
Om Narayan Bansal	2 May 1965	31 June 1966
Madan Mohan Singh Sidhu	4 July 1968	30 June 1969
Balak Ram Vaishya	1 July 1969	30 June 1970
Beni Prasad Halwasiya	1 July 1970	30 June 1971
Dauji Gupta	5 July 1971	27 JAN 1990
Akhilesh Das	19 Feb 1990	30 June 1995
S. C. Rai	1 December 1995	13 February 2006
Dinesh Sharma	14 November 2006	22 March 2017
Suresh Awasthi	23 March 2017	30 November 2017
Sanyukta Bhatia	1 December 2017	Incumbent

LMC Elections

Mayor Elections

2017

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sanyukta Bhatia	3,77,166	41.94
	SP	Meera Vardhan	2,45,810	27.34
	INC	Prema Awasthi	1,09,571	12.19
	BSP	Bulbul Godiyal	83,120	9.24
	AAP	Priyanka Maheshwari	24,577	2.73
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,449	0.61
Margin of victory			1,31,356	14.60
Turnout			8,99,214	38.64
	BJP hold		Swing

2012

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes
	BJP	Dr. Dinesh Sharma	3,35,106
	INC	Dr. Neeraj Bora	1,63,282
Margin of victory			1,71,824
Turnout			N/A
	BJP hold		Swing

2006

Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Dr. Dinesh Sharma	2,21,713	30.33
	INC	Dr. Manzoor Ahmed	2,12,410	29.05
	SP	Dr. Madhu Gupta	1,58,918	21.74
	IND.	Shiv Kumar Gupta	34,155	4.67
	IND.	Shailesh Kumar Singh	25,631	3.51
	RLD	Bhawaan Singh Rawat	15,476	2.12
	IND.	Mahesh Diwan	11,169	1.53
Margin of victory			9,303	1.28
Turnout			7,31,097	N/A
	BJP hold		Swing

Corporator Elections of 2017

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag or symbol	Number of Corporators	Change
01	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		58	14
02	Samajwadi Party (SP)	File:Samajwadi Party Flag.jpg	28	New
03	Indian National Congress (INC)		8	3
04	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		2	New
05	Independents		14	40