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Lucknow Municipal Corporation
TypeMunicipal Corporation
HeadquartersLucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Official language
Hindi, English, Urdu
Sanyukta Bhatia
Websitelmc.up.nic.in

Lucknow Municipal Corporation (Hindi: Lucknow Nagar Nigam) is the Municipal Corporation responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The organization is known, in short, as LMC. This civic administrative body administers the city's cleanliness and other public services like public health, clean streets and parks. The head of the LMC is the mayor. The present mayor is Sanyukta Bhatia while the present commissioner is Ajay kumar Dwivedi(IAS).[1]

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

Organization

LMC consists of 110 wards[3] for which elections are held every five years to select the corporators. Various political parties nominate their candidates and people of respective wards cast their votes during elections to elect the corporator for their ward.

Mayors

Mayors of LMC are listed below:[4]

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 present

Corporation Election

Mayor Election

U. P. Local Body Election, 2017: Lucknow
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
U. P. Local Body Election, 2012: Lucknow
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
U. P. Local Body Election, 2006: Lucknow
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 Election

Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections were conducted in November 2017.

S.No. Party Name Party flag or symbol Number of Corporators Change
01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 58 Increase14
02 Samajwadi Party (SP) 28 New
02 Indian National Congress (INC) 8 Decrease3
04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 2 New
05 Independents 14 Decrease40

Source:[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "RK Singh appointed Lucknow Municipal Corporation chief". The Times of India. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Lucknow Municipal Corp bonds to list on BSE today". The Economic Times. 2 December 2020.
  3. ^ http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/WARD_suchna_english.pdf
  4. ^ http://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/mayerlist.pdf
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 December 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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