In the midst of the ongoing exercise for the formation of new municipal bodies in Uttarakhand, the government has issued a notification for the formation of 4 new Nagar Panchayats. The newly formed nagar panchayats include Thalisain, Dhandera, Lalpur, Garuda, with this the number of municipal bodies in the state has increased to 94.

It is believed that the government may soon announce the formation of some more municipal bodies. There has been a demand for giving the status of municipal bodies in rural areas for a long time because there is a situation like urbanization, in this episode, earlier proposals of 9 municipal bodies were available to the government from different districts. In this, the status of 4 Nagar Panchayats of Garhwal Mandal and Kumaon Mandal has been given, notification has been issued.