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.
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).
Departments There are 7 working departments which comes under LMC.
Health Department Home Tax Department Air Quality Management Garden Department Publicity Department Accounts Department 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 OfficialsPostIncumbentSinceAppointed/ ElectedReferencesMayorSushma Kharakwal26 May 2023 Elected in 2023 LMC elections. Municipal CommissionerGaurav Kumar (IAS)24 April 2025Appointed by Government of Uttar Pradesh
Legislature LMC consists of 110 wards 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
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. She is the second female mayor of the city after her predecessor Sanyukta Bhatia.
Current Corporators WardCorporators No.NameNameParty1Shraddhya Atal Bihari VajpayeeChandawatiSamajwadi Party2Sharda Nagar - IIDraupadiBharatiya Janata Party3Ibrahimpur - IIMuskan BhartiSamajwadi Party4Ibrahimpur - IBrij Mohan SharmaBharatiya Janata Party5Raja Bijli Pasi - IIPinki6Raja Bijli Pasi - IRajni YadavSamajwadi Party7Lal Ji TandonRoshiniBharatiya Janata Party8Ambedkar NagarShubhash ChandraSamajwadi Party9Kalyan SinghAsha Rawat10Sarojini Nagar - IGeeta DeviBharatiya Janata Party11Shaheed Bhagar Singh - IIRamuSamajwadi Party12Kargapur SarsavaRajesh Kumar13Shaheed Bhagar Singh - IYogyata YadavBharatiya Janata Party14Bharwara MalhaurMamta RawatSamajwadi Party15Lal Bahadur Shastri - ISurendra Kumar ValmikiIndependent16Faizullaganj - IVRamuBharatiya Janata Party17Vikramaditya - Mahatama GandhiAmit ChaudharyBahujan Samaj Party18Sarojini Nagar - IIRam NareshBharatiya Janata Party19Sharda Nagar - IHimanshu Ambedkar20New Haiderganj - IIIVinod Kumar Yadav21Malviya NagarMamta ChaudharyIndian National Congress22Jankipuram - IIIDipak Kumar LodhiBharatiya Janata Party23Gurunanak NagarPiyush Diwan24SaadatganjShiv Kumar Yadav25Babu Kunj Bihari - OmnagarSarita Mishra26AishbaghSandeep Sharma27BalaganjKamlesh Kumari Diwedi28Rammohan RaiMadhu Singh29Kharika - IIRajni Awasthi30Kharika - IKrishna Narayan Singh31Jankipuram - INisha Tiwari32AlamnagarRekha Singh33LalkuanShushil Kumar Tiwari34Hazratganj - RamtirthNagendra Singh Chauhan35Hind NagarSaurabh Singh 'Monu'36Kesari KhedaDevendra Singh YadavSamajwadi Party37Gomti NagarKaushal Shankar PandeyIndian National Congress38Kanhaiya - Madhavpur - IIMd. ShakirIndependent39New Haiderganj - IIDharmendra Kumar SinghBharatiya Janata Party40Indira PriyadarshiniKalpana Verma41Ram Ji Lal - Sardar Patel NagarSandhya Mishra42Shankarpurva - IIShivam Upadhya43Ismailganj - IIRanjana Awasthi44Faizullaganj - IIPriyanka45Guru Govind SinghShravan Nayak46Kunwar Jyoti PrasadGauri Sanvariya47Daliganj - NiralanagarAbhilasha Katiyar48Faizullaganj - IRashmi Singh49Mahakavi Jai Shankar PrasadSwadesh Singh50Chinhat - IArun Kumar Rai51Ismailganj - IMukesh Singh ChauhanIndian National Congress52Kanhaiya - Madhavpur - IRam Naresh ChaurasiyaSamajwadi Party53MahanagarHarishchandra LodhiBharatiya Janata Party54GeetapalliRicha Mishra55Rani Laxmi BaiShafikur RehmanSamajwadi Party56Vidhya VatiKaushalendra DiwediBharatiya Janata Party57Babu Banarsi DasAshish Kumar Hitaishi58Moti Lal Nehru - Chandra Bhanu Gupta NagarCharanjit Gandhi59Colvin College - NishatganjPramod Singh60Vidhya Vati - IIINirmala Singh61Tilak Nagar - Kundari RakabganjRajiv Bajpayee62Rafi Ahmed KidwaiMalti Yadav63Ayodhya Das - IIAwdhesh Tripathi64Vidhya Vati - IPratima Tiwari65Chitragupta NagarNarendra Kumar66Chinhat - IIShailendra Verma67Lala Lajpat RaiRaghav Ram Tiwari68Babu Jagjivan RamBhrigunath Shukla69J.C. BoseYavar Hussain ReshuSamajwadi Party70Paper Mill ColonyRajesh SinghBharatiya Janata Party71Mankameshwar MandirRanjit Singh72Shankarpurva - IIIUmesh Chandra Sanval73Faizullaganj - IIIPradeep Kumar ShuklaLalit Kishore TiwariSamajwadi Party74Jankipuram - IIRajkumari MauryaBharatiya Janata Party75Bhartendu HarishchandraMan Singh Yadav76Rajiv Gandhi - ISanjay Rathore77Maithlisharan GuptaAshok Kumar UpadhyaIndependent78Labor ColonyAjay DixitBharatiya Janata Party79RajajipuramKaumudi Tripathi80Indira NagarPuja Jaswani81Mallahi Tola - IIGulshan AbbasSamajwadi Party82Triveni NagarDev Sharma MishraBharatiya Janata Party83New Haiderganj - IRajnii Gupta84Kadam RasoolMohd. NadeemSamajwadi Party85Mallahi Tola - ICB SinghBharatiya Janata Party86Lohia NagarRajesh Mishra87Gola GanjMohd. HaleemSamajwadi Party88Bashiratganj - GaneshganjGirish GuptaBharatiya Janata Party89Sheetla DeviAnoop Kamal Saxena90Rajendra NagarRajesh Kumar Dixit91Vivekanand PuriNupur Shankghar92Shankarpurva - INamita YadavSamajwadi Party93HusainabadLubana AliBharatiya Janata Party94DaulatganjRani Kanaujia95Maulvi GanjMukesh Singh 'Monti'96Lal Bahadur Shashtri - IIBhupendra Kumar Sharma97Gadhi Pir KhanShaista ParveenIndependent98Yadunath Sanyal - NazarbaghKaamran BegSamajwadi Party99Acharya Narendra DevManish RastogiBharatiya Janata Party100Rajiv Gandhi - IIArun Kumar Tiwari101AmberganjSaba Ahsan MansuriSamajwadi Party102Maulana Kalbe AbidIfham UllahIndian National Congress103Mashakganj - WazirganjMohd. NaeemSamajwadi Party104Yahiaganj - Netaji Subhash Chandra BoseNarendra SharmaBharatiya Janata Party105Kashmiri MohallaLaeek AagaSamajwadi Party106Chowk - Bazar Kali JiAnurag Mishra 'Annu'Bharatiya Janata Party107Raja - BazarRahul Mishra108BhawaniganjReeta Rai109AliganjPrithvi Gupta110Ayodhya Das - IMusbbor Ali ManshuSamajwadi Party
LMC elections
Mayor elections
2023
2017
2012
2006
Corporator elections
2023 S.NoParty nameParty flag or symbolNumber of CorporatorsChange01Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 802202Samajwadi Party (SP)21703Indian National Congress (INC)4404Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)1105Independents410
2017 S.No. Party name Party flag or symbol Number of Corporators Change 01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 58 14 02 Samajwadi Party (SP) 28 03 Indian National Congress (INC) 8 3 04 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 2 New 05 Independents 14 40
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See also Lucknow List of mayors of Lucknow List of municipal corporations in India 2023 Lucknow Municipal Corporation election
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