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Tirunelveli District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in India.It is the largest district in terms of area with Tirunelveli as its headquarters. The district was formed on 1 September 1790 [2] [3] by the British East India Company (on behalf of the British government) and comprised the present Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi, Tenkasi and parts of Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram district.
Tirunelveli (Tamil: [tiɾɯnelʋeːli] ⓘ), also known as Nellai and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of the Tirunelveli District. It is the fourth-largest municipal corporation in the state after Chennai, Coimbatore, and Madurai.
Salem district: Salem Municipal Corporation: 831,038 [19] 829,267: 1 June 1994 [20] 4 [21] 60 [22] 91.34 [21] 6 Tirunelveli: Tirunelveli district: Tirunelveli Municipal Corporation: 474,838 [23] 473,637: 1 June 1994 [24] 4 [25] 55 [25] 108.65 [25] 7 Vellore: Vellore district: Vellore Municipal Corporation: 781,966 [26] 185,803: 1 August 2008 ...
Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation Type Type Municipal Corporation of Tirunelveli Established June 1, 1994 ; 30 years ago (1994-06-01) Leadership Mayor G.Ramakrishnan Deputy Mayor K.R.Raju Commissioner V. Sivakrishnamurthy, IAS District Collector Dr.K.P.Karthikeyan, IAS Structure Seats 55 Political groups Government (50) SPA (50) DMK (45) INC (4) MDMK (1) Opposition (4) AIADMK (4) Others ...
Tirunelveli district: Tirunelveli Municipal Corporation: 474,838 [27] 473,637: 1 ... Tamil Nadu was the first state to establish town panchayats as a new ...
Developmental administration is the main objective of these local bodies. [10] They are effected by the means of urban and rural local bodies. They are responsible for the implementation of various centrally sponsored, state-funded, and externally aided schemes for provision of basic amenities and other services to the people.
Districts of Madras in 1956 with 2009 boundaries in gray. During the British Raj, the Madras Presidency was made up of 26 districts, 12 of which were part of the boundaries of the present-day Tamil Nadu, namely, Chingleput, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Madras, Madura, Ramnad, Salem, South Arcot, Tanjore, Tinnevely, and Trichinopoly.
Tirunelveli district was one of the districts in the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Tirunelveli , Thoothukudi , Tenkasi and few parts of Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu .