Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation

Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (Tamil: கோவை மாநகராட்சி) is the civic body that governs the city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.

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History

The municipality of Coimbatore was established in 1866 according to the Town Improvements Act of 1865[1] with Sir Robert Stanes, a renowned industrialist as its first Chairman.[2]The early days of the municipality were difficult as it had to tackle plague epidemics and earthquakes.[1] In 1934, the municipality elected its first woman Chairman, a Malayali, K. Thankamma Jacob.[3]Justice Party politician R. K. Shanmukham Chetty served as the Vice-Chairman of the Coimbatore municipality from 1917 to 1920.[4]

Coimbatore was upgraded to a municipal corporation in 1981, the third in Tamil Nadu.[5]

Structure

This corporation consists of 100 wards and is headed by a Mayor who presides over a Deputy Mayor and 99 other councillors who represent the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first past the post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the councillors from among their numbers.

For administrative purpose the Coimbatore corporation is divided into five zones- North, South, East, West, Central) which are each headed by a Ward chairman.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Imperial Gazetteer of India. 10. Clarendon Press. 1908. pp. 371-372. 
  2. ^ S. Muthiah (14 April 2003). "'Golden Tips' in the Nilgiris". The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/14/stories/2003041400090300.htm. Retrieved 9 June 2010. 
  3. ^ Devika, J. (2005). Her-self: early writings on gender by Malayalee women, 1898-1938. Popular Prakashan. p. 112. 
  4. ^ P. Rajeswar Rao (1991). "R. K. Shanmukham Chetty". The Great Indian Patriots, Volume 2. Mittal Publications. p. 120. ISBN 8170992885, ISBN 9788170992882. 
  5. ^ Palanithurai, Ganapathy (2007). A handbook for panchayati raj administration (Tamil Nadu). Concept Publishing Company. p. 80. ISBN 81-8069-340-6, ISBN 978-81-8069-340-3. 

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