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{{short description|Civic body that governs the city of Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India}}
{{Distinguish|Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox legislature
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 | house_type         = [[Municipal governance in India|Municipal Corporation]]
 | body               = Dehradun
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 | leader1_type       = [[Mayor]]
 | leader1            = [[Sunil Uniyal|Sunil Uniyal 'Gama']]
 | leader2_type       = [[Municipal commissioner (India)|Municipal Commissioner]]
 | leader2            = Abhishek Rohilla, [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]
 | party1             = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
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 | members            = 100
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'''Government (60)'''
*{{legend|#FF9933|[[Bhartiya Janta Party|BJP]] (60)}}
'''Opposition (33)'''
*{{legend|#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] (33)}} 
'''Others (6)'''
*{{legend|#DDDDDD|[[Independent politician|IND]] (6)}}
'''Vacant (1)'''
* {{Color box|#FFFFFF}} Vacant (1)
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 | voting_system1     = [[first-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post]]
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 | last_election1     = [[2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election|18 November 2018]]
 | last_election2     = 
 | previous_election1 = [[2013 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election|28 April 2013]]
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 | session_room       = 
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 | meeting_place      = Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Dehradun
 | website            = [http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/ Nagar Nigam Dehradun]
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}}
[[File:Nagar Nigam Dehradun.jpg|alt=Dehradun nagar nigam|thumb|Dehradun municipality]]
The '''Dehradun Municipal Corporation''' is the civic or urban local body<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nagar Nigam Dehradun {{!}} District Dehradun {{!}} India|url=https://dehradun.nic.in/public-utility/nagar-nigam-dehradun/|access-date=26 June 2020|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nagar Nigam|url=https://nagarnigamdehradun.com/about-us.php|access-date=26 June 2020|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com}}</ref> that governs the city of [[Dehradun]] in [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]. It is essentially the city government and differs from the [[Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority|MDDA]] (Mussoorie Dehradun Development Board), which is a state run organisation.

== Structure ==
This corporation consists of 100 wards and is headed by a [[mayor]] who presides over a deputy mayor and 99 other [[councillor|corporators]] representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/aboutUst.aspx|title=Nagar Nigam|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com|access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>

The Corporation is composed of elected officials like the mayor and corporator, administrative officials,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nagrika - What is a City Government?|url=http://www.nagrika.org/nagrikalarticles/citygovernment|access-date=26 June 2020|website=Nagrika|language=en-US}}</ref> like the [[Municipal commissioner (India)|Municipal Commissioner]] (also known as Chief Executive Officer) and technical officers who have expertise in various domains.

Prior to December 2003 this body was known as Dehradun Municipal Council and after revamping the municipality the Dehradun Municipal Corporation came into existence in 2003.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==List of chairpersons or commissioners of the Dehradun Municipal Council==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope=col| S. No.
!scope=col| Name
!scope=col colspan=3| Term<ref name="nagarnigamdehradun.com">{{cite web|url=http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/lis_chairmans.aspx|title=Nagar Nigam|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com}}</ref>
|-
|1
|[[Anant Narayan Tankha]]
|1 November 1919 
|28 February 1923
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1919|11|1|1923|2|28}}
|-
|2
|[[Ugrasen Singh]]
|1 March 1923 
|13 January 1936
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1923|3|1|1936|1|13}}
|-
|3
|[[Khurdesh Lal]]
|14 January 1936
|31 March 1940
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1936|1|14|1940|1|31}}
|-
|4
|[[Ishtiali Ahmad]]
|1 April 1940 
|15 April 1943
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1940|4|1|1943|4|15}}
|-
|5
|[[Anand Swarup Garg]]
|16 April 1943
|15 April 1948
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1943|4|16|1948|4|15}}
|-
|6
|[[B. N. Rai]]
|30 October 1948
|15 January 1949
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1948|10|30|1949|1|15}}
|-
|7
|[[Keshav Chand]]
|15 January 1949
|13 November 1953
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1949|1|15|1953|11|13}}
|-
|8
|[[Indresh Charan Das]]
|14 November 1953
|23 November 1957
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1953|11|14|1957|11|23}}
|-
|9
|[[Ram Swarup (politician)|Ram Swarup]] 
|14 November 1957
|14 December 1964
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1957|11|14|1964|12|14}}
|-
|10
|[[Brij Bhushan Singh]]
|15 December 1964 
|19 April 1967
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1964|12|15|1967|4|19}}
|-
|11
|[[Prem Prakash Sharma]]
|30 April 1967   
|26 November 1967
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1967|4|30|1967|11|26}}
|-
|12
|[[Sushil Chand Jain]]
|27 November 1967   
|31 August 1969
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1967|11|27|1969|8|31}}
|-
|13
|[[Bhola Datt Saklani]]
|26 December 1969 
|10 August 1977
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1969|12|26|1977|8|10}}
|-
|14
|[[Dinanath Saluja]]
|15 February 1989  
|7 February 1994
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1989|2|15|1994|2|7}}
|-
|15
|[[Vinod Chamoli]]
|5 March 1997 
|8 December 1998
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1997|3|5|1998|12|8}}
|}

==List of mayors of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! scope="col" | S. No.
! colspan=1| Name
! colspan=1| Portrait
! colspan=3| Term<ref name="nagarnigamdehradun.com"/>
! colspan=2| Party
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
|1
|[[Manorama Dobriyal Sharma]]
|
|8 February 2003 
|7 February 2008
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2003|2|8|2008|2|7}}
|[[Indian National Congress]] 
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
| colspan=3|''Administrator'' 
|8 February 2008 
|2 May 2008
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2008|2|8|2008|5|2}}
|[[Government of Uttarakhand]]
| style="background-color: white" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
|rowspan=2|2
|rowspan=2|[[Vinod Chamoli]]
|rowspan=2|
|3 May 2008
|2 May 2013
|rowspan=2  {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2008|5|3|2018|5|3}}
|rowspan=2|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|rowspan=2  width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
|3 May 2013
|3 May 2018
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
| colspan=3| ''Administrator'' 
|3 May 2018 
|2 December 2018
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2018|5|4|2018|12|2}}
|[[Government of Uttarakhand]]
| style="background-color: white" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
|3
|[[Sunil Uniyal|Sunil Uniyal 'Gama']]
|[[File:Sunil Gama Dehradun Mayor.jpg|75px]]
|2 December 2018
|[[Incumbent]] 
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2018|12|2}}
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] 
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|}

==Elections in the Dehradun Municipal Corporation==

The Dehradun Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2018.

{|class="sortable wikitable"
|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation
|-
! colspan="2" |Party!! Won !! '''+/−'''
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) || 60 || {{increase}} 26 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Indian National Congress]]  (INC) || 34 ||{{increase}} 12
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent politician}}
| [[Independent politician|Independents]] || 6 || {{increase}} 4
|-
| colspan="2" |'''Total'''|| '''100''' ||
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[2023 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election]]
* [[2018 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election]]
* [[2013 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election]]
* [[2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election]]
* [[2003 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.nagarnigamdehradun.com/index.aspx Official Website of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation]
* {{facebook.com|/municipalcommissionerdehradun}}

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