Dehradun Municipal Corporation

Not to be confused with Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority.

Dehradun Municipal Corporation

देहरादून नगर निगम

Dehradun Nagar Nigam
Unicameral Legislature
Type
Type
Leadership
Gaurav Kumar, IAS
Gaurav Bhasin, PCS
Vijay Pratap Singh Chauhan, PCS
Vinod Lal, PCS
Rajbir Singh Chauhan, PCS
Structure
Seats100
Political groups
Government (60)
  •   BJP (60)

Opposition (33)

Others (6)

Vacant (1)

  •   Vacant (1)
Elections
first-past-the-post
Last election
18 November 2018
Next election
23 January 2025
Meeting place
Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Dehradun
Website
Nagar Nigam Dehradun
Dehradun nagar nigam
Dehradun municipality

The Dehradun Municipal Corporation is the civic or urban local body[1][2] that governs the city of Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India. It is essentially the city government and differs from the 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 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.[3]

The Corporation is composed of elected officials like the mayor and corporator, administrative officials,[4] like the 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]

List of chairpersons or commissioners of the Dehradun Municipal Council

S. No. Name Term[5]
1 Anant Narayan Tankha 1 November 1919 28 February 1923 3 years, 119 days
2 Ugrasen Singh 1 March 1923 13 January 1936 12 years, 318 days
3 Khurdesh Lal 14 January 1936 31 March 1940 4 years, 17 days
4 Ishtiali Ahmad 1 April 1940 15 April 1943 3 years, 14 days
5 Anand Swarup Garg 16 April 1943 15 April 1948 4 years, 365 days
6 B. N. Rai 30 October 1948 15 January 1949 77 days
7 Keshav Chand 15 January 1949 13 November 1953 4 years, 302 days
8 Indresh Charan Das 14 November 1953 23 November 1957 4 years, 9 days
9 Ram Swarup 14 November 1957 14 December 1964 7 years, 30 days
10 Brij Bhushan Singh 15 December 1964 19 April 1967 2 years, 125 days
11 Prem Prakash Sharma 30 April 1967 26 November 1967 210 days
12 Sushil Chand Jain 27 November 1967 31 August 1969 1 year, 277 days
13 Bhola Datt Saklani 26 December 1969 10 August 1977 7 years, 227 days
14 Dinanath Saluja 15 February 1989 7 February 1994 4 years, 357 days
15 Vinod Chamoli 5 March 1997 8 December 1998 1 year, 278 days

List of mayors of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation

S. No. Name Portrait Term[5] Party
1 Manorama Dobriyal Sharma 8 February 2003 7 February 2008 4 years, 364 days Indian National Congress
Administrator 8 February 2008 2 May 2008 84 days Government of Uttarakhand
2 Vinod Chamoli 3 May 2008 2 May 2013 10 years, 0 days Bharatiya Janata Party
3 May 2013 3 May 2018
Administrator 3 May 2018 2 December 2018 212 days Government of Uttarakhand
3 Sunil Uniyal 'Gama' 2 December 2018 2 December 2023 5 years, 0 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Administrator 2 December 2023 Incumbent 1 year, 41 days Government of Uttarakhand

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.

Dehradun Municipal Corporation
Party Won +/−
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 60 Increase 26
Indian National Congress (INC) 34 Increase 12
Independents 6 Increase 4
Total 100

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nagar Nigam Dehradun | District Dehradun | India". Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Nagar Nigam". nagarnigamdehradun.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Nagar Nigam". nagarnigamdehradun.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Nagrika - What is a City Government?". Nagrika. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Nagar Nigam". nagarnigamdehradun.com.