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15 Zones of the Chennai Corporation after expansion The city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, is managed by the Corporation of Chennai. Established as Madras Corporation in 1688, it is the oldest municipal body in India. It is headed by a mayor, who presides over 200 councillors each of whom represents a ward. The current mayor of Chennai was elected on 4 March 2022. Prior to its expansion in ...
The local administration under the department consists of 15 municipal corporations, 121 municipalities and 528 town panchayats. [2] [3] Greater Chennai Corporation, established in 1688, is the second oldest in the world and Tamil Nadu was the first state to establish town panchayats as a new administrative unit.
Source of revenue for these local bodies are mainly from centre-state governments. Local bodies also have the power of taxation which include house tax, profession tax, property tax etc. Apart from these they levy fees for specific building plan and layout approvals, water charges, sewerage charges etc.
Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) [2] is a local government for the City of Chennai in the Chennai Metropolitan Area of Tamil Nadu, India.Inaugurated on 29 September 1688, under a royal charter issued by King James II of England on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.
Tamil Nadu Sugarcane Farm Corporation Limited: 1974: Chennai: State Govt. Undertaking: Merged with Sugar Department, Government of Tamil Nadu: 6: Tamil Nadu Goods Transport Corporation Limited: 1975: Chennai: State Govt. Undertaking: Merged with Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation as Goods Transport Division: 7: Dharmapuri District ...
With the expansion of the corporation area in 2011 from 174 sq km to 426 sq km, which increased the number of wards of the Chennai Corporation from 155 to 200 and the number of zones from 10 to 15, MetroWater's customer base is expected to increase by an additional 1.7 million when the new areas are covered.
Mylapore is one of the 15 corporation zones of the Corporation of Chennai. It comprises the revenue villages of Bheemannapettai, Thiruvalluvar Nagar, Madha Perumal Puram, Karaneeswarapuram, Santhome, Mylapore, Avvai Nagar North, Raja Annamalaipuram, Avvai Nagar South, Adyar West, Adyar East, Velachery, Thiruvanmiyur West and Thiruvanmiyur East
Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) or Greater Chennai is the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in India and the 35th most populous in the world. It consists of the core city of Chennai , which is coterminous with the Chennai district , and its suburbs in Kanchipuram , Chengalpattu , Thiruvallur and Ranipet districts.