Tehri

New Tehri is a city and a municipal board in Tehri Garhwal District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of Tehri Garhwal District. This urban municipality area has 11 wards, from Vidhi Vihar to Vishwakarma Puram. Mrs Seema Krishali is the chairperson of Nagar Palika Tehri, and is the first female chairperson of Tehri. She won as an independent. Shri Umesh Gusain of the BJP was Chairman of the Tehri Nagarpalika before Mrs Seema Krishali. He is the only Chairman who won this seat two times consecutively in 61 years. Tehri is represented by the Tehri assembly seat of Uttarakhand and the Tehri Lok Sabha seat of India, which are represented by Dhan Singh Negi and Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah respectively. ()