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:Dehradun Municipal Corporation

{{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

| name = Dehradun Municipal Corporation

| native_name = देहरादून नगर निगम

| transcription_name = Dehradun Nagar Nigam

| legislature = Unicameral Legislature

| coa_pic =

| coa_res =

| coa_alt =

| house_type = Municipal Corporation

| body =

| houses =

| leader1_type = Mayor

| leader1 = Saurabh Thapliyal

| party1 = BJP

| election1 = 7 February 2025

| party2 =

| election2 =

| leader2_type = Municipal Commissioner

| leader2 = Namami Bansal, IAS

| leader3_type = Deputy Municipal Commissioner

| leader3 = Gaurav Bhasin,

| leader4_type = Assistant Municipal Commissioner

| leader4 = Vijay Pratap Singh Chauhan
Vinod Lal
Rajbir Singh Chauhan

| members = 100

| structure1 = India Dehradun, Uttarakhand Municipal Corporation 2025.svg

| structure1_res = 300px

| political_groups1 =

Government (63)

  • {{Color box|{{Party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}}} BJP (63)

Opposition (24)

  • {{Color box|{{Party color|Indian National Congress}}}} INC (24)

Others (13)

  • {{Color box|#B2B2B2}} IND (13)

| voting_system1 = First-past-the-post

| voting_system2 =

| last_election1 = 23 January 2025

| next_election1 = 2030

| session_room =

| session_res =

| session_alt =

| meeting_place = Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Dehradun

| website = [http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/ Nagar Nigam Dehradun]

| footnotes =

}}

File:Nagar Nigam Dehradun.jpg

The Dehradun Municipal Corporation is the civic or urban local body{{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}}{{Cite web|title=Nagar Nigam|url=https://nagarnigamdehradun.com/about-us.php|access-date=26 June 2020|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/aboutUst.aspx|title=Nagar Nigam|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com|access-date=4 October 2018}}

The Corporation is composed of elected officials like the mayor and corporator, administrative officials,{{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}} 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|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{{cite web|url=http://nagarnigamdehradun.com/lis_chairmans.aspx|title=Nagar Nigam|website=nagarnigamdehradun.com}}

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

|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

class="wikitable sortable"

|+

scope="col" | S. No.

! colspan=1| Name

! colspan=3| Term

! 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=2|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

|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=2| 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

|2 December 2018

|2 December 2023

| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2018|12|2|2023|12|2}}

|Bharatiya Janata Party

| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

style="text-align:center; height:60px;"

| colspan=2| Administrator

|2 December 2023

|7 February 2025

| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|2023|12|2|2025|2|7}}

|Government of Uttarakhand

| style="background-color: white" |

style="text-align:center; height:60px;"

|4

|Saurabh Thapliyal

|7 February 2025

|Incumbent

|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|2025|2|7}}

|Bharatiya Janata Party

|width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |

Current members

Dehradun Municipal Corporation has a total of 100 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Dehradun is Saurabh Thapliyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party.{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/bjp-wins-mayoral-seat-in-dehradun/articleshow/117576064.cms|title=BJP wins mayoral seat in Dehradun|work=Times of India|accessdate=27 January 2025}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
style="background-color:#FF9933; color:white" colspan=6|Mayor: Saurabh Thapliyal
Ward No.

! Ward Name

! Name of Councillor

! colspan="2" | Party

! Remarks

1MalsiSumendra Singh Bohra{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}

|

2VijaypurSagar Lama

|

3RanjhawalaAnil Chhetri

|

4RajpurMahima{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

5DhoranAlpana Rana{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

6Doon ViharMeenakshi Nautiyal

|

7JakhanArvind Chaudhary{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

8SalawalaBhupendra Kathait{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}

|

9Arya NagarYogesh Ghaghat

|

10Dobhal WalaMohan Bahuguna

|

11Vijay ColonyAnup Kumar{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

12Kishan NagarNandini Sharma{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

13D.L. RoadBarkha{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

14RispanaRani Kaur{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}

|

15KaranpurRavi Kumar

|

16BakralwalaAshok Dobariyal

|

17ChukkhuwalaArjun Sonkar{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

18Indra ColonyVanshika Sonkar{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

19Ghanta Ghar Kalika MandirSantokh Nagpal

|

20Race Course NorthVirendra Singh{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

21M.K.P.Rohan Chandel{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

22Tilak RoadAnita Garg

|

23KhurburaLakshmi Kaur{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

24Shivaji MargVishal Kumar{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

25Indrish NagarManoj Kumar Jatav

|

26DhamawalaPramod Kumar Gupta{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

27Jhanda MohallaVaibhav Agarwal{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

28Dalanwala NorthKamla Devi{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

|

29Dalanwala EastNikhil Kumar

|

30Dalanwala SouthSunita Manjkhola{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

31KaulagharDevaki Nautiyal{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

32BallupurKomal Vohra{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

33Yamuna ColonySanjay Singhal{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

34Govind GharMahendra Kaur Kukreja

|

35Shri Dev SumanSangeeta Gupta{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

36Vijay ParkAmita Singh{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

37Basant ViharAnkit Agarwal

|

38PanditwariAbhishek Tiwari{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

39Indra NagarPraveen Negi{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

40Seema DwarVinod Rawat{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

41IndrapuramBabita Gupta{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

|

42KanwaliRenu Gheyal

|

43DwanpuriRajni Devi

|

44Patel Nagar WestDolly Rani Mohan

|

45Gandhi GramMeenakshi Maurya

|

46AdhoiwalaMonika Chaudhary{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

|

47Chandar RoadAjay Tyagi

|

48Badrish ColonyKamli Bhatt{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

49Bhagat Singh ColonyAbdul Rehman{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

50Rajiv NagarMahendra Singh Rawat{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

51Bani ViharTrilok Bargali{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}

|

52Saraswati ViharSohan Singh Rautela

|

53Mata Mandir RoadVimal Uniyal

|

54Chandra Singh Garhwali AjabpurRajni Dhaundiyal{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

55Shah NagarRakesh Kumar{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|

56DharampurAmit Bhandari{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

57Nehru ColonyVivek Kothari{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

58Defence ColonyDevendra Gairola{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

|

59Gujrara MansinghSanjeet Bansal

|

60Danda LakhondAbhishek Pant

|

61Aamwala TarlaPrashant Dobhal

|

62NunarkheraSumit Pundir

|

63LadpurDinesh Kemwal{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

64Nehru GramSushila{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

|

65Dobhal ChowkVijay Lakshmi Negi

|

66RaipurKapil Dhar

|

67MohkampurRavindra Singh Rawat

|

68Chak Tun Wala Miya WalaPooja Negi

|

69Ritha MandiEtat Khan{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

|

70Lakkhi BaghAyush Gupta

|

71Patel Nagar EastMahipal Dhiman{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=4}}

|

72DehrakhasAlok Kumar

|

73Vidhya ViharRamesh Chandra Gaur

|

74BhrampuriSatish Kashyap

|

75Lohia NagarMukeem Ahmed{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|

76NiranjanpurPoonam Pundir{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

77MajraZahid Ansari{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

|

78Turner RoadKusum Verma

|

79Bharuwala GrantDeepak Negi{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

|

80Rest CampAnjali Singhal

|

81Race Course SouthRakhi Barthawal

|

82Deep NagarDinesh Prasad Sati

|

83KedarpurDarshan Lal Binjola

|

84BanjarawalaRuchi{{Party name with color|Independent|rowspan=2}}

|

85MothrowalaSobat Chand Ramola

|

86Sewla KalanManju Kaushik{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

|

87PithuwalaPushkar Chauhan

|

88Mehuwala-1Tarannum{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

|

89Mehuwala-2Priya Verma

|

90MohobiwalaSudhir Thapa{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=7}}

|

91ChanderbaniSuman Butola

|

92Arcadia-1Anil Nautiyal

|

93Arcadia-2Kiran Yadav

|

94Nathanpur-1Meharban Singh Bhandari

|

95Nathanpur-2Ravindra Gusain

|

96NawadaVirendra Walia

|

97HarrawalaDevi Dayal{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|

98BallawalaPrashant Kharola{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}

|

99NakrundaRahul Kumar

|

100NathuawalaSwati Dobhal

|

Election results

The Dehradun Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.

=Mayoral=

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

!rowspan="2"|Year

!rowspan="2"|No. of Wards

!colspan="5"|Winner

!colspan="5"|Runner Up

!rowspan="2"|Margin

colspan="2"|Party

!Candidate

!Votes

!%

!colspan="2"|Party

!Candidate

!Votes

!%

2003

|45

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|Manorama Dobriyal Sharma

|50,511

|34.29

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Vinod Uniyal

|46,202

|30.4

|style="background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"|4,309

2008

|rowspan=2|60

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

|rowspan=2|Vinod Chamoli

|60,867

|33.07

|{{Party name with color|Independent}}

|Rajni Rawat

|44,294

|24.06

|style="background:{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"|16,573

2013

|80,530

|40.93

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}

|Suryakant Dhasmana

|57,618

|29.28

|style="background:{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"|22,912

2018

|rowspan=2|100

|Sunil Uniyal

|1,62,516

|46.41

|Dinesh Agrawal

|1,26,884

|36.24

|style="background:{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"|35,632

2025

|Saurabh Thapliyal

|2,42,229

|58.29

|Virendra Pokhriyal

|1,36,535

|32.86

|style="background:{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"|1,05,694

=Ward-wise=

==2025==

class="sortable wikitable"

|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation

colspan="2" |PartyWon+/−
{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bharatiya Janata Party

63{{increase}}3
{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| Indian National Congress

24{{decrease}}10
{{party color cell|Independent politician}}

| Independents

13{{increase}}7
colspan="2" |Total100

==2018==

class="sortable wikitable"

|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation

colspan="2" |PartyWon+/−
{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bharatiya Janata Party

60{{increase}}26
{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| Indian National Congress

34{{increase}}12
{{party color cell|Independent politician}}

| Independents

6{{increase}}4
colspan="2" |Total100

==2013==

class="sortable wikitable"

|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation

colspan="2" |PartyWon+/−
{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bharatiya Janata Party

34{{increase}}6
{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| Indian National Congress

22{{decrease}}2
{{party color cell|Bahujan Samaj Party}}

| Bahujan Samaj Party

2{{increase}}1
{{party color cell|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}

| Uttarakhand Kranti Dal

0{{decrease}}1
{{party color cell|Independent politician}}

| Independents

2{{decrease}}4
colspan="2" |Total60

==2008==

class="sortable wikitable"

|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation

colspan="2" |PartyWon+/−
{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bharatiya Janata Party

28{{increase}}12
{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| Indian National Congress

24{{increase}}1
{{party color cell|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}

| Uttarakhand Kranti Dal

1{{increase}}1
{{party color cell|Bahujan Samaj Party}}

| Bahujan Samaj Party

1{{increase}}1
{{party color cell|Independent politician}}

| Independents

6{{steady}}
colspan="2" |Total60

==2003==

class="sortable wikitable"

|+| Dehradun Municipal Corporation

colspan="2" |PartyWon+/−
{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

| Indian National Congress

23{{increase}}23
{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bharatiya Janata Party

16{{increase}}16
{{party color cell|Independent politician}}

| Independents

6{{increase}}6
colspan="2" |Total45

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

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

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