The Full Form of HDMC is Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation.

Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is the Municipal Corporation responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the twin cities of Hubli and Dharwad, located in North Western part of Karnataka state in India. The organization is known, in short, as HDMC. This civic administrative body administers an area of 213 km². HDMC consists of 67 elected members from four Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Hubali-Dharwad. Presently the Council is under suspended animantion pending election of new members.There has been a huge demand by people of Dharwad to create a separate civic body and get itself detached by HDMC.Claims are that most of the funds are allocated to Hubli solely