Tiruchirapalli City Municipal Corporation
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.
Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | November 1, 1866 |
| Leadership | |
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S.Sivarasu, IAS | |
S.Sivasubramanian [1] | |
| Seats | 65 |
| Elections | |
Last election | 2011 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Trichy municipal corporation building | |
| Website | |
| www | |
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]
References
- ↑ "Corporation Commissioner Profile". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hemingway, p 263
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 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) - ↑ "Dr. Rajan defends his apparent indiscipline". Indian Express. 15 August 1936.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hemingway, pp 261-262
- ↑ "Trichy Municipal Amalgamation". Indian Express. 7 October 1933.
- ↑ Palanithurai, Ganapathy (2007). A handbook for panchayati raj administration (Tamil Nadu). Concept Publishing Company. p. 80. ISBN 978-81-8069-340-3.
- ↑ "Town Planning Department". Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.