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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.
The department generates the highest tax revenue for the state government. [1] The core function of the department is two pronged: implementation of taxes on various commodities and services as laid out by various tax laws enacted by Government of India and the state government and to maximize the collection of taxes. [2]
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.
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 ...
Under the Seventy-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India, local governments of cities with a population of 1 lakh (100,000) and above are known as Municipal Corporations. This is a list of Municipal Corporation under State/Union Territory based on the 2011 Census of India .
Keelkattalai (also written as Kilkattalai or Keezhkattalai or "Keellhkattalai") is a suburb of Chennai, India and is part of the Chennai metropolitan area. Formerly a part of Pallavaram Municipality , it was merged into Tambaram City Municipal Corporation in 2021.
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.
NMMC is considered one of the most efficient Municipal Corporation in India.Till 2014, the NMMC was headquartered in an eight storied building in CBD Belapur.In 2014, construction of a new civic building was complete and NMMC decided to lease out the old premises after moving into the new one. [4]