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 The '''Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation''' is the [[municipal corporation]] which looks after the city administration of [[Tiruchirappalli]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], India. It consists of a legislative and an executive body. The legislative body is headed by the city mayor while the executive body is headed by a Chief Commissioner.
+==History==
+<!-- Commented out: [[File:Trichinopoly municipality 1907.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Map of Trichinopoly municipality and its wards, 1907]] -->
+The [[municipality]] of Tiruchirapalli was inaugurated by the Town Improvements Act 1865 on 1 November 1866 and included the civil station as well as the Trichinopoly Cantonment. The municipality originally consisted of two ex-officio and nine nominated members.<ref name="hemingwayp263">[[#Hemingway|Hemingway]], p 263</ref> Elections to the council were introduced in 1877 and the first chairman was elected in 1889.<ref name="hemingwayp263" /> Elections were stopped in September 1895 and remained so until July 1897. The appointment of a municipal secretary was sanctioned by the Madras Government in 1898.<ref name="hemingwayp263" />
+Following the [[Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms]], an Indian mayor was elected from 1921. The first Indian mayor was probably the Indian national congress independence activist, [[F. G. Natesa Iyer]]- who was also an officer with the [[South Indian Railway Company]], the largest industrial enterprise,  then in Trichinopoly.<ref>{{cite news | first=S. P. | last=Saravanan | title = Salem, more like a vast urban village| quote =F.G. Natesa Iyer, who was a senior official of the South Indian Railway Company, was the first elected Indian chairman of Tiruchi Municipality.  | newspaper = The Hindu | date = 2 November 2015 | url =https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/salem-more-like-a-vast-urban-village/article7832866.ece |access-date=16 November 2018 }}</ref>
+Indian independence activist [[P. Rathinavelu Thevar]] served as the Chairman of Trichinopoly municipality for a record five terms from 1924 to 1946. Thevar's tenure was, however, highly controversial and he was dismissed in 1934 for administrative irregularities.<ref name="rajp280">{{cite book|title=Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917 - 47|authors=D. A. Low, Raja Kanta Ray|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|page=280|ISBN=978-0-19-568367-7}}</ref> Thevar's rival [[T. S. S. Rajan]] accused him of instigating [[anti-Brahmin]] and [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim]] violence in the city.<ref name="rajp280" /><ref name="indianexpress_19360815">{{cite news|title=Dr. Rajan defends his apparent indiscipline|work=[[Indian Express]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_MA-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=bkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6461,2350429&hl=en|date=15 August 1936}}</ref>
+A municipality of Srirangam was created in 1871 per the Town Improvements Act of 1865 following a decision not to include Srirangam within Trichinopoly municipality as it lay extremely far from the heart of Tiruchirappalli town.<ref name="hemingwaysrirangam">[[#Hemingway|Hemingway]], pp 261-262</ref> The municipality of Srirangam included most of [[Srirangam Island]] including [[Thiruvanaikaval]].<ref name="hemingwaysrirangam" />[[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli|Golden Rock]], with a population of 38,880 as per the 1971 census, was constituted a third-grade municipality on 1 October 1972 and upgraded to a II-Grade municipality on 5 October 1978.
+There were demands to merge Tiruchi and Srirangam municipalities in September 1930 and October 1933. Rathinavelu Thevar submitted a memorandum to [[George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen|Lord Goschen]] requesting the upgrading of Tiruchi to a municipal corporation and extending it up to [[Manachanallur]].<ref name="indianexpress_19331007">{{cite news|title=Trichy Municipal Amalgamation|work=Indian Express|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DYk-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=80sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6234,3295615&hl=en|date=7 October 1933}}</ref> Tiruchirappalli was eventually designated [[municipal corporation]] in 1994 through the merger of Srirangam and Golden Rock municipalities as per the Tiruchirapalli City Municipal Corporation Act 1994.<ref name="panchayatirajp80">{{cite book|title=A handbook for panchayati raj administration (Tamil Nadu)|page=80|first=Ganapathy|last=Palanithurai|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=2007|ISBN=978-81-8069-340-3}}</ref> The municipal corporation currently covers an area of 164.70&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> and comprises 65 wards and 4 administrative zones: [[Srirangam]], [[Ariyamangalam]], [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli|Golden Rock]] and [[Abhishekapuram]].<ref name="townplanning">{{cite web|title=Town Planning Department|url=http://www.trichycorporation.gov.in/town.php|publisher=Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation}}</ref>
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