Lucknow Municipal Corporation

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{{Short description|Local government of Lucknow, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2014}}
{{Infobox legislature
|name = Lucknow Municipal Corporation
|native_name = Lucknow Nagar Nigam
|native_name_lang = [[Hindi]]
|coa_caption = [[Seal (emblem)|Seal]] of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation
|house_type = [[Municipal Corporation]]
|leader1 = [[Sanyukta Bhatia]]
|leader1_type = [[Mayor]]
|leader2 = ''Vacant''
|leader2_type = [[Deputy Mayor]]
|meeting_place = Municipal Corporation Head Office, Lalbagh, [[Lucknow]]
|coa_pic = LMC Logo.jpg
|last_election1 = [[2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election|26 November 2017]]
|next_election1 = [[2022 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election|2022]]
|session_room =
|motto = स्वछ लखनऊ, सुंदर लखनऊ ([[Hindi language|Hindi]]) <br />''Clean Lucknow, Beautiful Lucknow''
|seats = 110
|website = {{url|https://lmc.up.nic.in}}
|party1 = ([[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]])
|political_groups1 = '''Government(58)'''
*{{Color box|#FF992C}} [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]: (58)

'''Opposition(28)'''
*{{Color box|#E30C0C}} [[Samajwadi Party|SP]]: (28)

'''Others(24)'''
*{{Color box|#32F9D5}} [[Indian National Congress|INC]]: (8)
*{{Color box|#272FCB}} [[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]]: (2)
*{{Color box|#6B5E5F}} [[Independent politician|IND]] (14)
|foundation = {{start date and age|1884}} as Lucknow Municipal Board
|leader3 = Ajay Kumar Diwedi, [[Indian Administrative Services|IAS]]
|leader3_type = [[Municipal Commissioner]]
|term_limits = 5 years
|jurisdiction =
|leader1_term = |structure1=[[File:LMC after 2017 election.svg|LMC after 2017 election|250px]]|structure1_res=250px|coa_res=150px|session_res=200px}}

'''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 in India|local government]] of the Lucknow city and it is one of the [[Municipal corporation (India)|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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-24|title=LMC executive passes ₹1946.82 cr budget|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/lmc-executive-passes-rs-1946-82-cr-budget-101616603537174.html|access-date=2022-02-09|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>

== 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 [[Government of India|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).<ref>{{cite news|date=2 December 2020|title=Lucknow Municipal Corp bonds to list on BSE today|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/bonds/yogi-adityanath-to-attend-listing-of-lucknow-municipal-corporation-bonds-on-bse/articleshow/79492257.cms}}</ref>

== 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 [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] officer who serves as [[Municipal commissioner (India)|Municipal Commissioner]] and appointed by the [[Government of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh Government]], having all the executive powers.
* The [[Mayor of Mumbai|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 (India)|municipal commissioner]] is Ajay Kumar Dwivedi (IAS).

{| class="wikitable"
|+LMC Officials
!Post
!Incumbent
!Since
!Appointed/ Elected
!References
|-
|[[Mayor]]
|[[Sanyukta Bhatia]] ([[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]])
|12 December 2017
|Elected in [[2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election|2017 LMC Elections]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Who is Sanyukta Bhatia? Meet Lucknow’s first woman mayor in 100 years|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/who-is-sanyukta-bhatia-meet-lucknows-first-woman-mayor-in-100-years/955966/|access-date=2022-02-08|website=The Financial Express|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Deputy mayor|Deputy Mayor]]
|''Vacant''
| -
| -
| -
|-
|[[Municipal commissioner (India)|Municipal Commissioner]]
|Ajay Kumar Dwivedi ([[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]])
|17 August 2020
|Appointed by [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-17|title=Ajay Kumar Dwivedi IAS posted as Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Lucknow {{!}} Indian Bureaucracy is an Exclusive News Portal|url=https://www.indianbureaucracy.com/ajay-kumar-dwivedi-ias-posted-as-municipal-commissioner-municipal-corporation-lucknow/|access-date=2022-02-08|language=en}}</ref>
|}

==Legislature==
LMC consists of 110 wards<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wards |url=http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/WARD_suchna_english.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=नगर निगम में बने 12 नए वॉर्ड, परिसीमन जारी |url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/metro/lucknow/other-news/12-new-wards-made-in-the-municipal-corporation/articleshow/58486420.cms |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Navbharat Times |language=hi}}</ref> for which a quinquennial election is held to elect [[Councillor|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 [[Councillor|corporator]] for their ward.

== Mayors ==
All Mayors of LMC are listed below:<ref>http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/mayerlist.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

{| class = "wikitable sortable"
|-
! 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 (politician)|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 ====
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election|Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2017]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Sanyukta Bhatia]]|votes=3,77,166|percentage=41.94|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Samajwadi Party|candidate=Meera Vardhan|votes=2,45,810|percentage=27.34|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|candidate=Prema Awasthi|party=Indian National Congress|votes=1,09,571|percentage=12.19|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Bulbul Godiyal|votes=83,120|percentage=9.24|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Aam Aadmi Party|candidate=Priyanka Maheshwari|votes=24,577|percentage=2.73|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|votes=5,449|percentage=0.61|change=}}
{{Election box margin of victory
|votes = 1,31,356
|percentage = 14.60
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=8,99,214|percentage=38.64|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==== 2012 ====
{{Election box begin | title=Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2012}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Dinesh Sharma (politician)|Dr. Dinesh Sharma]]|votes=3,35,106|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|candidate=[[Neeraj Bora|Dr. Neeraj Bora]]|party=Indian National Congress|votes=1,63,282|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box margin of victory
|votes = 1,71,824
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=''N/A''|percentage=|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==== 2006 ====
{{Election box begin | title=Lucknow Municipal Corporation Elections : 2006}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[Dinesh Sharma (politician)|Dr. Dinesh Sharma]]|votes=2,21,713|percentage=30.33|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|candidate=Dr. Manzoor Ahmed|party=Indian National Congress|votes=2,12,410|percentage=29.05|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|candidate=[[Dr. Madhu Gupta]]|party=Samajwadi Party|votes=1,58,918|percentage=21.74|change=}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND.]]
|candidate = Shiv Kumar Gupta
|votes = 34,155
|percentage = 4.67
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND.]]
|candidate = Shailesh Kumar Singh
|votes = 25,631
|percentage = 3.51
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Rashtriya Lok Dal|candidate=Bhawaan Singh Rawat|votes=15,476|percentage=2.12|change=}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND.]]
|candidate = Mahesh Diwan
|votes = 11,169
|percentage = 1.53
|change =
}}
{{Election box margin of victory
|votes = 9,303
|percentage = 1.28
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|votes=7,31,097|percentage=''N/A''|change=}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===Corporator Elections of 2017===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!S.No. !! Party Name !! Party flag or symbol !! Number of Corporators !! Change
|-
| 01 || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) ||[[File:Bharatiya Janata Party logo.svg|77x77px]]|| 58 || {{gain}}14
|-
| 02 || [[Samajwadi Party]] (SP) ||[[File:Samajwadi Party Flag.jpg|75x75px]]|| 28 || ''New''
|-
| 03 || [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) || [[File:INC Logo.png|87x87px]]|| 8 || {{loss}}3
|-
| 04 || [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (BSP) || [[File:Elephant Bahujan Samaj Party.svg|75px]] || 2 || ''New''
|-
| 05 || [[Independent politician|Independents]] || [[File:No flag.svg|75px]] || 14 || {{loss}}40
|-
|}

Source:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lmc.up.nic.in/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021219142235/http://lmc.up.nic.in/ |archive-date=19 December 2002 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
*''Upcoming'' [[2022 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election]]
*[[List of municipal corporations of India]]
*[[Lucknow]]
*[[2017 Lucknow Municipal Corporation Election]]
{{Portal|India}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://lmc.up.nic.in/}}
{{Municipal Corporations in Uttar Pradesh}}

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