Take office as Mayor of Srinagar

Srinagar, India · 15 people · Tourism Hub

The Srinagar Municipal Corporation and the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority manage the iconic Dal Lake ecosystem — monitoring water quality, regulating 1,000+ houseboats, restoring traditional floating vegetable gardens (rad), and controlling invasive aquatic weeds — while coordinating Jhelum River flood infrastructure, preserving UNESCO-recognised Mughal garden hydraulic systems, and delivering urban services across a city of unique topographic and seasonal complexity.

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

The city

Landmark: Dal Lake & Mughal Gardens (Shalimar Bagh).

• The Lakes and Waterways Development Authority manages a permanently floating neighbourhood on Dal Lake where over 50,000 people live aboard 1,000+ houseboats and shikara boats — requiring a separate floating infrastructure system of sewage collection barges, freshwater supply boats, and waste collection shikara rounds that operate entirely on water rather than roads, making Dal Lake one of the world's only inhabited urban water bodies with its own independent service fleet.
• The Srinagar Municipal Corporation maintains the 600-year-old Mughal garden hydraulic systems — the terraced charbagh gardens of Shalimar Bagh and Nishat Bagh use gravity fed stone channel networks (nahar) drawing from Zabarwan mountain springs, requiring heritage qualified engineers to repair Mughal-era water distribution stonework alongside modern supplemental pipe infrastructure to maintain the gardens visited by over 1 million tourists annually.

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 Srinagar 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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