Take office as Mayor of Jammu

Jammu, India · 700,000 people · Heritage City

The Jammu Municipal Corporation and the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board manage the winter capital of J&K and the primary staging city for one of the world's largest single destination pilgrimages — 8 million annual devotees trekking to the Vaishno Devi shrine in the Trikuta Hills — coordinating pilgrim transit hubs, helicopter services, route safety, crowd management, and Tawi River flood embankment infrastructure.

The record Jammu keeps on the Board of Mayors is still unwritten. Take office and write its opening chapter.

The city

Landmark: Vaishno Devi Shrine Gateway & Raghunath Temple.

• The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board manages a 13 km mountain trek route receiving over 8 million pilgrims annually — operating 24/7 medical posts every 2 km, battery powered shuttle vehicles, helicopter services, RFID pilgrim tracking wristbands, and real time crowd density monitoring to safely manage pilgrim flows in steep Himalayan terrain, making it one of the world's most logistically complex religious pilgrimage management operations.
• The Jammu Municipal Corporation maintains the Tawi River flood infrastructure — the Tawi bisects the city and carries seasonal Himalayan flash floods that threaten densely inhabited riverside settlements — operating permanent embankments, early warning river gauge stations, and emergency sandbag prepositioning depots, while also managing the river's traditional ghats and hosting the annual Tawi Festival that draws large crowds to the same flood risk riverside zones.

How a term works

Take office and each day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is judged on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, within the city's budget, and every term adds to the record Jammu keeps on the Board of Mayors. Mayors message and confer with one another, form councils, trade with neighbouring cities and send aid where it is needed. Cities rise together.

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