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	Sushma Kharakwal, BJP
Municipal Commissioner	Indrajeet singh, IAS
Structure
Seats	110
Political groups	Government (80) BJP (80); Opposition (26); SP (21); INC (4); BSP (1); Other (4) IND (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]

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.

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).^[3]

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 municipal commissioner is IAS Indrajeet Singh.

LMC Officials
Post	Incumbent	Since	Appointed/ Elected	References
Mayor	Shushma Kharakwal	26 May 2023	Elected in 2023 LMC elections.	^[4]
Municipal Commissioner	Indrajeet Singh (IAS)	26 June 2022	Appointed 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
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shushma Kharakwal	5,02,660	48.52
	SP	Vandana Mishra	2,98,519	28.81
	INC	Sangeeta Jaiswal	1,02,633	9.91
	BSP	Shaheen Bano	75,997	7.34
	AAP	Anju Bhatt	25,206	2.43
	NOTA	None of the Above	24,241	2.34
Margin of victory			2,04,141	19.71	5.11
Turnout			10,29,256
	BJP hold		Swing

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