The Hindu 11.04.2013
Dindigul, Thanjavur to be upgraded as corporations
Dindigul and Thanjavur municipalities will be upgraded
as Municipal Corporations, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa told the
Assembly on Wednesday.
With her announcement, the
number of Municipal Corporations in the State will go up to 12. Chennai,
Tiruchi, Coimbatore, Madurai, Salem, Vellore, Erode, Salem,
Tirunelveli, and Tuticorin are the other Municipal Corporations in the
State.
Making a
suo motu
statement, the Chief Minister said increasing population, revenue and
nature of development works were reasons behind the government’s
decision to upgrade these two municipalities into Municipal
Corporations.
Special grade municipalities
She also announced that Karaikudi and Sivakasi, two selection grade municipalities, will become special grade municipalities.
Ms.
Jayalalithaa said a Tamil Nadu Municipalities Accounts Service would be
newly created to maintain the finances of the municipalities and
municipal corporations.
She said the finances of
these urban local bodies had increased manifold as they were
implementing schemes from their own funds, the funds allotted by the
State and Central governments and funds from the World Bank, Japan Bank
for International Cooperation and other foreign banks.