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Puducherry is a Union Territory of India, with four exclaved districts; Puducherry district and Karaikal district (surrounded by the state of Tamil Nadu), Mahé district (surrounded by the state of Kerala) and Yanam district (surrounded by the state of Andhra Pradesh), with Pondicherry district having the largest area and population and Mahe district having the smallest area and population.
The Union Territory of Puducherry lies in the southern part of the Indian Peninsula. The areas of Puducherry district and Karaikal district are bound by the state of Tamil Nadu, while Yanam district and Mahé district are enclosed by the states of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, respectively. Puducherry is the 29th most populous of the 36 states and ...
Meeting place. Pondicherry Municipality, Puducherry. Website. pdymun.in. The Pondicherry Municipal Council (Tamil: புதுச்சேரி மாநகராட்சி) is the municipality of Pondicherry, India. Pondicherry has had a French system of municipal administration since 1880 and till the last poll held in 1968. Recently, in ...
The Puducherry district, also known by its former name Pondicherry district, is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry in South India.The district occupies an area of 290 square kilometres (110 sq mi), [2] spread over 12 non-contiguous enclaves lying on or near the Bay of Bengal within a compact area in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The Pondicherry Municipality, constituted under the Act of 1973, is a selection Grade Municipality and comprises the erstwhile Communes of Pondicherry and Mudaliarpet and its headquarters in Pondicherry. The total number of council wards is 42. Out of 42 wards, 4 wards have been reserved for Scheduled caste.
List of communes of Puducherry. Puducherry consists of 10 communes. [1] Out of these, five communes are located in Puducherry district and the other five are located in Karaikal district. Puducherry is composed of three blocks, five municipalities, and ten communes. Puducherry and Karaikal have five communes each.
As per The Union Territories Act, 1963, thirty members would be elected through direct suffrage. [4] [5] Before the Elections to constitute the First Pondicherry Legislative Assembly were held in August 1964, the constituencies were delimited by the Delimitation Commission (as per Delimitation Commission Act, 1962) and the entire territory was divided into 30 single-member constituencies-21 ...
The Puducherry Legislative Assembly (French: Assemblée législative de Pondichéry) is the unicameral legislature of the Indian union territory (UT) of Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam. Out of eight union territories of India, only three have legislatures and they are Delhi [note 1], Puducherry ...