Lucknow Municipal Corporation
| Type | Municipal Corporation |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh |
Official language | Hindi, English |
| Dinesh Sharma | |
| Website |
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Lucknow Municipal Corporation (Hindi: लखनऊ नगर निगम Lucknow nagar nigam) is the Municipal Corporation responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Lucknow, located in Uttar Pradesh, India. The organization is known, in short, as LMC. This civic administrative body administers the city's cleanliness and other public services like public health and parks. The head of the LMC is the mayor. The present mayor is Dr. Dinesh Sharma while the present commissioner is Rakesh Kumar Singh.[1]
Organization
LMC consists of 110 wards[2] 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. After the elections the winners select a mayor from among themselves.
Mayors
Mayors of LMC are listed below:[3]
| 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 Siddhu | 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 Gupt | 5 July 1971 | 27 May 1992 |
| Akhilesh Das | 13 May 1993 | 30 November 1995 |
| S C Rai | 1 December 1995 | 13 February 2006 |
| Dinesh Sharma | 14 November 2006 | present |
Corporation Election 2014
Political Performance in Election 2014 [4]
Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections were conducted in February 2014.
| S.No. | Party Name | Party flag or symbol | Number of Corporators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Indian National Congress (INC) |  | 20 |
| 02 | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |  | 150 |
| 03 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) |  | 10 |
| 04 | Shiv Sena (SS) |  | |
| 05 | Samajwadi Party (SP) |  | 20 |
| 06 | Independents |  | 0 |
See also
List of municipal corporations of India