The Ayodhya Municipal Corporation or Ayodhya Nagar Nigam is the governing civic body of the cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
History Local self-government for Ayodhya and Faizabad was introduced in 1865. The two cities were administered jointly as a municipality. The joint municipality was split on 7 January 1978 into Ayodhya Municipal Council (Nagar Nigam Parishad Ayodhya) and Faizabad Municipal Corporation (Nagar Nigam Faizabad). The Government of Uttar Pradesh made an order in May 2017, merging the two municipal corporations as Ayodhya Municipal Corporation. The governance framework, jurisdiction and function of municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are governed by the UP Municipalities Act 1916, and the UP Municipal Corporations Act 1959. The election for the governing body is conducted by the State Election Commission, which has its office in Faizabad.
The Uttar Pradesh state government established an agency called the Ayodhya-Faizabad Development Authority (AFDA) on 2 November 1985, "to enhance the level of sustainable development of the historic twin cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad." In 2018, the Ayodhya–Faizabad Development Authority approved a proposal to add . The agency is now called the Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA). The Ayodhya Development Authority produced the Ayodhya Master Plan 2031. The first phase of the plan added and 65 villages. The second phase added 189 villages from Basti and Gonda districts, increasing the area governed by the municipal corporation to , and would be expected to increase the population to 1.4 million by 2031.
Current members Ayodhya Municipal Corporation has a total of 60 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 on 11 May 2023. Girish Pati Tripathi of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current mayor of the city of Ayodhya.
Ward No Ward Name Name of Corporator PartyMayor: Girish Pati Tripathi 1 Abhiramdas Sultan Ansari IND 2 Purushottam Nagar Gyanmati SP 3 Jhalkari Bai Geeta BJP 4 Darshan Nagar Gayatri BJP 5 Avaidyanath Rajkaran BJP 6 Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Vikas Kumar BJP 7 Chaudhary Charan Singh Mukesh Kumar SP 8 Kaushal Puri Dharma Veer SP 9 Shivnagar Shiv Kumar BJP 10 Lala Lajpat Rai Nagar Ramtirath BJP 11 Krishna Nagar Ramashankar Nishad BJP 12 Paramhansa Ramchandra Das Krishna Gopal SP 13 Acharya Narendra Dev Anoop Srivastava BJP 14 Karpuri Thakur Vikas Kumar IND 15 Savarkar Nagar Manish Singh BJP 16 Maharana Pratap Abrunnisha AAP 17 Pt. Deendayal Nagar Vishwajeet Yadav BSP 18 Vashishtha Gund Ranjana Yadav IND 19 Sitakund Vinay Kumar Jaiswal BJP 20 Sant Ravidas Nagar Deep Kumar BJP 21 Hanuman Kund Archana BJP 22 Sardar Bhagat Singh Santosh Singh BJP 23 Sardar Patel Nagar Indravati SP 24 Chitragupt Nagar Manisha Yadav BJP 25 Atal Nagar Jaynarayan Singh BJP 26 Janaura Dharmendra BJP 27 Hanumat Nagar Mohammad Rashid Salim SP 28 Ashwini Puram Jagat Narayan Yadav SP 29 Ashfaq Ullah Khan Akhilesh Pandey SP 30 Dashrath Kund Gyanmati SP 31 Devkali Anuj Das BJP 32 Kabir Nagar Chandan Singh BJP 33 Saket Nagar Kausar SP 34 Nishadraj Nagar Gunja Nishad BSP 35 Ambedkar Nagar Kafeel Ahmed IND 36 Awadhpuri Saurabh Singh Suryavanshi IND 37 Kalyan Singh Surya Kumar RLD 38 Badi Devkali Sarvjit Kumar SP 39 Amaniganj Suman Yadav BJP 40 Mahatma Gandhi Farheen Saba BSP 41 Ram Manohar Lohia Ram Bhavan SP 42 Vikramaditya Nagar Mithlesh Mishra BJP 43 Shaheed Abdul Hameed Salman Haider IND 44 Jay Prakash Narayan Anil Singh BJP 45 Ramkot Chameli Devi BJP 46 Pateshwari Nagar Kunti Pandey IND 47 Jharkhandi Brijendra BJP 48 Lakshmi Sagar Nagar Bakar Ahmed SP 49 Mangal Pandey Rajesh Kumar Gaur BJP 50 Shivaji Nagar Garima BJP 51 Ashok Singhal Nagar Ankit Tripathi BJP 52 Laxman Ghat Priya Shukla SP 53 Chandra Shekhar Nagar Vishal Pal SP 54 Agrasen Nagar Shahnoor Bano SP 55 Maniramdas Cantonment Abha Pandey IND 56 Subhash Chandra Bose Arjun Yadav SP 57 Chandragupta Nagar Mohammad Salim PECP 58 Nanakpura Meera IND 59 Jhule Lal Nagar Abhinav IND 60 Swami Vivekananda Harish Chandra BJP
Elections 2023 AMC election S.No. Party name Party symbol Number of Corporators 01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 27 02 Samajwadi Party (SP) 17 03 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 3 04 Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) 1 05 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 1 06 Peace Party of India (PECP) 1 07 Independents 10
2017 AMC election S.No. Party name Party symbol Number of Corporators 01 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 35 02 Shiv Sena (SHS) 1 03 Indian National Congress (INC) 2 04 Samajwadi Party (SP) 17 05 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 1 06 Independents 4
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