Be the Mayor of Aizawl

Aizawl, India · 400,000 people · Heritage City

The Aizawl Municipal Council and the Public Health Engineering Department manage one of India's most topographically extreme capitals — built entirely on steep parallel ridgelines at 1,132 metres, with virtually no flat land for conventional urban planning — operating gravity fed water supply from mountain springs, managing waste collection on near vertical neighbourhoods via porter teams, and coordinating landslide risk zonation across a city consistently ranked among India's cleanest.

The seat for Aizawl on the Board of Mayors is open. Seat #1 is yours to take.

The city

Landmark: Durtlang Hills & Luangmual Handicrafts Centre.

• The Aizawl Municipal Council manages urban logistics on terrain so steep that many residential streets are accessible only by stairs, not vehicles — the city's solid waste management department deploys a formal paid porter workforce with backpack carriers to service households on near vertical hillside lanes, a model recognised by India's Swachh Bharat Mission as an innovative solution to topographic constraints that conventional wheeled collection vehicles cannot overcome.
• The Public Health Engineering Department operates gravity fed water distribution from natural spring catchments in the Durtlang Hills above the city — a network of spring capture structures, hilltop storage tanks, and gravity pressure pipelines that supplies much of Aizawl without pumping energy costs — requiring seasonal spring flow monitoring, catchment area forest protection, and precision pipe pressure management across a city spanning a 300-metre elevation range.

How a term works

Take office and every day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Aizawl's own record on the Board of Mayors. You are not alone in office: message and chat with other mayors, form a council with friends, trade with nearby cities and send aid. Cities rise together: there is no losing city.

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