An amendment bill was tabled in the Legislature in June to relax the criteria for upgrading municipalities to municipal corporations and to upgrade four municipalities to municipal corporations.
Thiruvannamalai, Namakkal, Pudukottai and Karaikudi Municipal Corporations were created as per the new law amendment. With this, the number of Municipal Corporations in Tamil Nadu has increased to 25.
Commissioners have been appointed for the newly formed Municipal Corporations.
In this regard, Municipal Administration Department Secretary D. Karthikeyan issued an order saying, “Salem Municipal Administrative Zone Director R. Poongodi Aramkan, Salem Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner, Salem Deputy Commissioner-1 P. Ashokumar, Salem Municipal Administrative Zone Director, Madurai Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner-1 K. Saravanan has been appointed as Director of Chengalpattu Municipal Administrative Zone, G. Thanalakshmi, Director of Vellore Municipal Administrative Zone, Erode Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner, Kanchipuram Corporation Commissioner M. Senthil Murugan as Chennai Municipal Corporation Zonal Officer and V. Navindran who was on leave as Kanchipuram Corporation Commissioner.
Thanjavur Corporation Commissioner R. Maheshwari as the newly created Namakkal Corporation Commissioner, Chengalpattu Municipal Administrative Zone Director S. Chitra as the newly created Karaikudi Corporation Commissioner, Cuddalore Corporation Commissioner as the newly created Tiruvannamalai Corporation Commissioner, Tirunelveli Corporation Deputy Commissioner-1 A. Thanumurthy, Thanjavur Municipal Administration Zonal Director, Tambaram Corporation Deputy Commissioner-2 K. Balu, Tiruchirappalli Corporation Deputy Commissioner has been appointed.
Municipal Administrative Deputy Director S. Lakshmi as Vellore Municipal Administrative Zonal Director, Thanjavur Municipal Administrative Zonal Director Kannan, Thanjavur Municipal Corporation Commissioner, Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner Narayanan as Commissioner of the newly created Pudukottai Municipal Corporation, Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner Selvabalaji as Municipal Administrative Deputy Director, Thiruvannamalai Municipal Commissioner Dakshinamurthy has been appointed as Thiruvekadu Municipal Commissioner, Ganesan who was on leave as Pollachi Municipal Commissioner, Namakkal Municipal Commissioner Sennu Krishnan as Avadi Municipal Corporation Assistant Commissioner and Karaikudi Municipal Commissioner Weeramuthukumar as Kodaikanal Municipal Commissioner.
Pudukottai Municipal Commissioner Syamala, Mannargudi Municipal Commissioner, Ooty Municipal Commissioner Ekaraj, Theni-Allinagaram Municipal Commissioner, Jahangir Pasha Ooty Municipal Commissioner who was on leave, Villupuram Municipal Commissioner H. Ramesh, Karamalainagar Municipal Commissioner, Vellore Municipal Assistant Commissioner M.R. Vasanthi, Tambaram Municipal Corporation Assistant Commissioner, Kodaikanal Municipal Commissioner Sathyanathan, Villupuram Municipal Commissioner,” it said.
