Tiruchirapalli City Municipal Corporation

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Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation
File:Tiruchi corporation logo.jpg
Type
Type
History
FoundedNovember 1, 1866; 158 years ago (1866-11-01)
Leadership
---.--- office suspended due to postponed elections
---.--- office suspended due to postponed elections
S.Sivarasu, IAS
S.Sivasubramanian [1]
Seats65
Elections
Last election
2011
Meeting place
Trichycorporation.jpg
Trichy municipal corporation building
Website
www.trichycorporation.gov.in

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

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.[2] Elections to the council were introduced in 1877 and the first chairman was elected in 1889.[2] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] Thevar's rival T. S. S. Rajan accused him of instigating anti-Brahmin and anti-Muslim violence in the city.[4][5]

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.[6] The municipality of Srirangam included most of Srirangam Island including Thiruvanaikaval.[6]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 Lord Goschen requesting the upgrading of Tiruchi to a municipal corporation and extending it up to Manachanallur.[7] 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.[8] The municipal corporation currently covers an area of 164.70 km2 and comprises 65 wards and 4 administrative zones: Srirangam, Ariyamangalam, Golden Rock and Abhishekapuram.[9]

Structure

The Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Council, the legislative body, comprises 100 councillors elected from each of the 65 wards and is headed by the Worshipful Mayor assisted by a Deputy Mayor.[10] The executive wing is made up of seven departments: general administration, revenue, town planning, engineering, public health, information technology and personnel and is headed by a City Commissioner. The Commissioner is assisted by a city engineer, a city health officer, two executive engineers for the east and west sections, and Assistant Commissioners for personnel, accounts and revenue departments, a public relations officer, and an Assistant Commissioner for each of the four zones.[11]

List Of Corporation Commissioners

  • Thiru. S.Ramaiah, B.A 01.06.1994 to 05.10.1994
  • Thiru. Swaran Singh, I.A.S 05.10.1994 to 10.12.1995
  • T. Subramanian 10.12.1995 to 02.01.1996
  • M. Abdullahsha, I.A.S 03.01.1996 to 29.05.1996
  • A.J. MD.Mirza, B.E 30.05.1996 to 20.06.1996
  • Apurva varma, I.A.S 21.06.1996 to 19.02.1997
  • G. Pitchai, B.Sc 20.02.1997 to 20.08.1997
  • P. Muthu Veeran, M.Sc 21.08.1997 to 10.06.2001
  • S. Karuthiah Pandian, I.A.S 11.06.2001 to 20.06.2002
  • R. Venkatesan, I.A.S 27.06.2002 to 19.02.2003
  • Anand Patil, I.A.S 16.03.2003 to 01.06.2004
  • Harmander Singh, I.A.S 19.07.2004 to 19.06.2006
  • S. Rajamohammed, B.E 19.06.2006 to 22.06.2006
  • B. Balachandran, M.Sc 22.06.2006 to 18.09.2007
  • T.T. Balsamy, M.A 19.09.2007 to 31.07.2011
  • K. Veera Raghava Rao, I.A.S 01.08.2011 to 01.03.2012
  • K. R. Selvaraj, M.Sc 05.03.2012 to 26.05.2012
  • V.P.Thandapani, B.Sc., M.A.,(D.P.P.Tech) 27.05.2012 to 07.01.2015
  • M.Vijaya Lakshmi, B.Sc., HDC, PGDUM 08.01.2015 to 22.03.2016
  • N.S.Prema, M.A.,B.Ed.,M.B.A.,A.P.G.D.U.M.,23.03.2016 to 31.08.2016
  • N.Ravichandran, M.Sc., M.Ed 01.09.2016 to 04.11.2019
  • S.Sivasubramanian, B.Sc., B.L., 06.11.2019 to 13.07.2021
  • P.M.N.Mujibur Rahuman, B.Sc., 14.07.2021 to

Divisions

The civic administration of the city is divided into four zones - Abhishekapuram, Ariyamangalam, Golden Rock and Srirangam.[11] The engineering department, however, is divided into two zones - East and West.[11] The zones and the wards which come under each of them have been listed below.

Zone Wards[12] Total number of wards Assistant Commissioner-in-charge
Abhishekapuram 75 - 100 25 P. Subramaniam (i/c)[13]
Ariyamangalam 26-50 25 K.Padmavathy[14]
Golden Rock 51-75 25 M. Dhayanithi[15]
Srirangam 1-25 25 A. Rengaraju [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Corporation Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hemingway, p 263
  3. ↑ Saravanan, S. P. (2 November 2015). "Salem, more like a vast urban village". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 November 2018. F.G. Natesa Iyer, who was a senior official of the South Indian Railway Company, was the first elected Indian chairman of Tiruchi Municipality.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 D. A. Low, Raja Kanta Ray (2006). Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917 - 47. Oxford University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-19-568367-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  5. ↑ "Dr. Rajan defends his apparent indiscipline". Indian Express. 15 August 1936.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hemingway, pp 261-262
  7. ↑ "Trichy Municipal Amalgamation". Indian Express. 7 October 1933.
  8. ↑ Palanithurai, Ganapathy (2007). A handbook for panchayati raj administration (Tamil Nadu). Concept Publishing Company. p. 80. ISBN 978-81-8069-340-3.
  9. ↑ "Town Planning Department". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.
  10. ↑ "About city municipal corporation". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Organizational chart". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Councillor Lis". Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  13. ↑ "Corporation Assistant Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation.
  14. ↑ "Corporation Assistant Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation.
  15. ↑ "Corporation Assistant Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation.
  16. ↑ "Corporation Assistant Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation.
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