New Tehri

New Tehri
Tehri Dam lake Panorama in New Tehri, Uttarakhand, India
Tehri Dam lake Panorama in New Tehri, Uttarakhand, India
Nicknames: 
NTT, City of Dam's
New Tehri is located in Uttarakhand
New Tehri
New Tehri
Location in Uttarakhand, India
New Tehri is located in India
New Tehri
New Tehri
New Tehri (India)
Coordinates: 30°23′N 78°29′E / 30.38°N 78.48°E / 30.38; 78.48
Country India
StateUttarakhand
DistrictTehri Garhwal
Founded byKing Sudarshan Shah (New Tehri by THDC)
Government
 • TypeMunicipal
 • BodyNew Tehri Nagar Palika (Chairperson-Mrs. Seema Krishali, Independent), 2018/12/02-present
Elevation
1,750 m (5,740 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total24,014
Languages
 • OfficialHindi, Sanskrit
 • NativeGarhwali
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Telephone code01376
Vehicle registrationUK-09
Websitehttp://tehri.nic.in/

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 (Koti colony).

Seema Krishali is the chairperson of Nagar Palika Tehri, and is the first female chairperson of Tehri. She won as an independent. 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 (Bhartiya Janta Party) and Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (Bhartiya Janta Party) respectively.[2]

  1. ^ "Census of India: Search Details". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
  2. ^ "TEHRI Election Result 2017, Uttarakhand". Ndtv. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

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