Be the Mayor of Shillong

Shillong, India · 350,000 people · Heritage City

The Shillong Municipal Board and the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority manage the capital of one of India's wettest states — coordinating stormwater drainage and landslide prevention infrastructure on steep forested hillsides that receive over 2,300 mm of annual rainfall — maintaining the heritage cantonment zone of colonial Scottish-style architecture, and managing gateway access to the living root bridge ecosystems of the surrounding Khasi Hills.

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

The city

Landmark: Ward's Lake & Elephant Falls.

• The Meghalaya Urban Development Authority manages stormwater infrastructure in one of the world's rainiest urban environments — Shillong sits on the plateau above Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, among the Earth's highest rainfall zones — operating a dense network of slope drainage channels, retaining walls, and landslide early warning sensors across a city where sudden soil saturation can trigger hillside failures in residential neighbourhoods, requiring 24/7 monsoon season monitoring.
• The Shillong Municipal Board coordinates with Khasi tribal heritage councils to protect access to the living root bridges of the Meghalaya hills — extraordinary structures where Ficus elastica tree roots have been guided over centuries to form self strengthening living bridges, some over 500 years old — supporting these sites with trekking infrastructure, conservation guidelines, and community managed ecotourism protocols that generate income for the Khasi villages that own and maintain them.

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 Shillong'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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