Lucknow Municipal Corporation

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Lucknow Nagar Nigam
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Type Municipal Corporation


Term limits 5 years
Mayor Sushma Kharakwal, BJP


Municipal Commissioner Gaurav Kumar, IAS



Structure File:Lucknow Municipal Corporation 2023.svg






Meeting place Municipal Corporation Head Office, Lalbagh, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Session room LMC Building.jpg
Website Municipal Corporation

The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), or the Lucknow Nagar Nigam 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 2025, LMC passed a budget of 4,304 Crore INR for the financial year 2025-2026, a major jump from the last years budget of 2,865 Crore INR.[1][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.

  1. Health Department
  2. Home Tax Department
  3. Air Quality Management
  4. Garden Department
  5. Publicity Department
  6. Accounts Department
  7. 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 Gaurav Kumar.

LMC Officials
Post Incumbent Since Appointed/ Elected References
Mayor Sushma Kharakwal 26 May 2023 Elected in 2023 LMC elections. [4]
Municipal Commissioner Gaurav Kumar (IAS) 24 April 2025 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

Template:Main 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.

Current Corporators

Ward Corporators [9]
No. Name Name Party
1 Shraddhya Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chandawati Samajwadi Party
2 Sharda Nagar - II Draupadi Bharatiya Janata Party
3 Ibrahimpur - II Muskan Bharti Samajwadi Party
4 Ibrahimpur - I Brij Mohan Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party
5 Raja Bijli Pasi - II Pinki
6 Raja Bijli Pasi - I Rajni Yadav Samajwadi Party
7 Lal Ji Tandon Roshini Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Ambedkar Nagar Shubhash Chandra Samajwadi Party
9 Kalyan Singh Asha Rawat
10 Sarojini Nagar - I Geeta Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
11 Shaheed Bhagar Singh - II Ramu Samajwadi Party
12 Kargapur Sarsava Rajesh Kumar
13 Shaheed Bhagar Singh - I Yogyata Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Bharwara Malhaur Mamta Rawat Samajwadi Party
15 Lal Bahadur Shastri - I Surendra Kumar Valmiki Independent
16 Faizullaganj - IV Ramu Bharatiya Janata Party
17 Vikramaditya - Mahatama Gandhi Amit Chaudhary Bahujan Samaj Party
18 Sarojini Nagar - II Ram Naresh Bharatiya Janata Party
19 Sharda Nagar - I Himanshu Ambedkar
20 New Haiderganj - III Vinod Kumar Yadav
21 Malviya Nagar Mamta Chaudhary Indian National Congress
22 Jankipuram - III Dipak Kumar Lodhi Bharatiya Janata Party
23 Gurunanak Nagar Piyush Diwan
24 Saadatganj Shiv Kumar Yadav
25 Babu Kunj Bihari - Omnagar Sarita Mishra
26 Aishbagh Sandeep Sharma
27 Balaganj Kamlesh Kumari Diwedi
28 Rammohan Rai Madhu Singh
29 Kharika - II Rajni Awasthi
30 Kharika - I Krishna Narayan Singh
31 Jankipuram - I Nisha Tiwari
32 Alamnagar Rekha Singh
33 Lalkuan Shushil Kumar Tiwari
34 Hazratganj - Ramtirth Nagendra Singh Chauhan
35 Hind Nagar Saurabh Singh 'Monu'
36 Kesari Kheda Devendra Singh Yadav Samajwadi Party
37 Gomti Nagar Kaushal Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress
38 Kanhaiya - Madhavpur - II Md. Shakir Independent
39 New Haiderganj - II Dharmendra Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
40 Indira Priyadarshini Kalpana Verma
41 Ram Ji Lal - Sardar Patel Nagar Sandhya Mishra
42 Shankarpurva - II Shivam Upadhya
43 Ismailganj - II Ranjana Awasthi
44 Faizullaganj - II Priyanka
45 Guru Govind Singh Shravan Nayak
46 Kunwar Jyoti Prasad Gauri Sanvariya
47 Daliganj - Niralanagar Abhilasha Katiyar
48 Faizullaganj - I Rashmi Singh
49 Mahakavi Jai Shankar Prasad Swadesh Singh
50 Chinhat - I Arun Kumar Rai
51 Ismailganj - I Mukesh Singh Chauhan Indian National Congress
52 Kanhaiya - Madhavpur - I Ram Naresh Chaurasiya Samajwadi Party
53 Mahanagar Harishchandra Lodhi Bharatiya Janata Party
54 Geetapalli Richa Mishra
55 Rani Laxmi Bai Shafikur Rehman Samajwadi Party
56 Vidhya Vati Kaushalendra Diwedi Bharatiya Janata Party
57 Babu Banarsi Das Ashish Kumar Hitaishi
58 Moti Lal Nehru - Chandra Bhanu Gupta Nagar Charanjit Gandhi
59 Colvin College - Nishatganj Pramod Singh
60 Vidhya Vati - III Nirmala Singh
61 Tilak Nagar - Kundari Rakabganj Rajiv Bajpayee
62 Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Malti Yadav
63 Ayodhya Das - II Awdhesh Tripathi
64 Vidhya Vati - I Pratima Tiwari
65 Chitragupta Nagar Narendra Kumar
66 Chinhat - II Shailendra Verma
67 Lala Lajpat Rai Raghav Ram Tiwari
68 Babu Jagjivan Ram Bhrigunath Shukla
69 J.C. Bose Yavar Hussain Reshu Samajwadi Party
70 Paper Mill Colony Rajesh Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
71 Mankameshwar Mandir Ranjit Singh
72 Shankarpurva - III Umesh Chandra Sanval
73 Faizullaganj - III Pradeep Kumar Shukla
74 Jankipuram - II Rajkumari Maurya
75 Bhartendu Harishchandra Man Singh Yadav
76 Rajiv Gandhi - I Sanjay Rathore
77 Maithlisharan Gupta Ashok Kumar Upadhya Independent
78 Labor Colony Ajay Dixit Bharatiya Janata Party
79 Rajajipuram Kaumudi Tripathi
80 Indira Nagar Puja Jaswani
81 Mallahi Tola - II Gulshan Abbas Samajwadi Party
82 Triveni Nagar Dev Sharma Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party
83 New Haiderganj - I Rajnii Gupta
84 Kadam Rasool Mohd. Nadeem Samajwadi Party
85 Mallahi Tola - I CB Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
86 Lohia Nagar Rajesh Mishra
87 Gola Ganj Mohd. Haleem Samajwadi Party
88 Bashiratganj - Ganeshganj Girish Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
89 Sheetla Devi Anoop Kamal Saxena
90 Rajendra Nagar Rajesh Kumar Dixit
91 Vivekanand Puri Nupur Shankghar
92 Shankarpurva - I Namita Yadav Samajwadi Party
93 Husainabad Lubana Ali Bharatiya Janata Party
94 Daulatganj Rani Kanaujia
95 Maulvi Ganj Mukesh Singh 'Monti'
96 Lal Bahadur Shashtri - II Bhupendra Kumar Sharma
97 Gadhi Pir Khan Shaista Parveen Independent
98 Yadunath Sanyal - Nazarbagh Kaamran Beg Samajwadi Party
99 Acharya Narendra Dev Manish Rastogi Bharatiya Janata Party
100 Rajiv Gandhi - II Arun Kumar Tiwari
101 Amberganj Saba Ahsan Mansuri Samajwadi Party
102 Maulana Kalbe Abid Ifham Ullah Indian National Congress
103 Mashakganj - Wazirganj Mohd. Naeem Samajwadi Party
104 Yahiaganj - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Narendra Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party
105 Kashmiri Mohalla Laeek Aaga Samajwadi Party
106 Chowk - Bazar Kali Ji Anurag Mishra 'Annu' Bharatiya Janata Party
107 Raja - Bazar Rahul Mishra
108 Bhawaniganj Reeta Rai
109 Aliganj Prithvi Gupta
110 Ayodhya Das - I Musbbor Ali Manshu Samajwadi Party

LMC elections

Mayor elections

2023

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2017

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2012

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2006

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Corporator elections

2023

S.No Party name Party flag or symbol Number of Corporators Change
01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 80 Template:Gain22
02 Samajwadi Party (SP)
21 Template:Loss7
03 Indian National Congress (INC)
4 Template:Loss4
04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
1 Template:Loss1
05 Independents
4 Template:Loss10

2017

S.No. Party name Party flag or symbol Number of Corporators Change
01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 58 Template:Gain14
02 Samajwadi Party (SP)
28
03 Indian National Congress (INC) 8 Template:Loss3
04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 2 New
05 Independents 14 Template:Loss40

Source:[10]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ LMC House approves Rs 2,865 crore budget for 2024-25, no tax hike. The Times of India(2024-02-24). Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  2. ↑ LMC’s revised budget stuck amid mayor-MC stalemate. Hindustan Times(2025-11-05). Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  3. ↑ Lucknow Municipal Corp bonds to list on BSE today(2 December 2020).
  4. ↑ Meet Lucknow's new mayor: BJP veteran, was Atal Bihari Vajpayee's loyalist. Hindustan Times(2023-05-13). Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  5. ↑ Lucknow: नए नगर आयुक्त गौरव कुमार ने सम्भाली जिम्मेदारी, बोले- शहर चमकाना और भ्रष्टाचार रोकना पहली प्राथमिकता. Amar Ujala. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
  6. ↑ Wards.
  7. ↑ नगर निगम में बने 12 नए वॉर्ड, परिसीमन जारी. Navbharat Times. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  8. ↑ Meet Lucknow's new mayor: BJP veteran, was Atal Bihari Vajpayee's loyalist. Hindustan Times(2023-05-13). Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  9. ↑ Lucknow Nagar Nigam Chunav Result 2023: लखनऊ में BJP की सुषमा जीती, कई वार्डों के नतीजे घोषित. AajTak(2023-05-13). Retrieved 2026-01-28.
  10. ↑ LMC. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

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