Deccan Chronicle 20.11.2010
Greater Chennai to have 200 wards
November 20th, 2010
DC Correspondent
Chennai, Nov. 19: The state government has notified the
expansion of city corporation limits to 426 sq km from the existing 175
sq km by merging nine municipalities, eight town panchayats and 25
village panchayats adjacent to it.
Municipal administration department secretary K. Ashok
Vardhan Shetty said in the gazette notification that territorial
division of wards and zones would take place based on the inclusion of
new areas before the local body polls.
“The greater corporation will have 200 ward councillors.
We will notify the ward boundaries after consulting with local bodies
soon,” Mr Shetty told DC. The wards in core Chennai will have more
population and its periphery the number will be less. The merger of 42
local bodies requires total re-organisation of the civic body and
involves lot of procedural works. “We have to convert the existing
municipal and town panchayat offices as zonal offices of corporation or
area offices of Metro Water board.”
The gazette notification said the Governor of Tamil Nadu,
using the clause (9) of section 3 of the Chennai City Municipal
Corporation Act 1919, declared a total of 42 local bodies should form
part of the city of Chennai.
Municipalities such as Ambattur, Madhavaram, Manali,
Maduravoyal, Valasaravakkam, Alandur and Tiruvottiyur will become part
of the greater Chennai while Uthandi as its eastern border.