Greater Chennai Corporation
Greater Chennai Corporation Perunakara Ceṉṉai Mānakarāṭci | ||
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Deputy Mayor | Mahesh Kumar, DMK since 4 March 2022 | |
M.Aruna, IAS | ||
Structure | ||
Seats | 200 | |
Political groups | Government (178)
Opposition (22) | |
Meeting place | ||
Ripon Building, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | ||
Website | ||
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Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)
History
The Madras Corporation is the oldest
Prior to the establishments of the corporation, the
By 1856, the duties of the Corporation became more clearly defined. In 1919, the Aldermen were re-styled as 'Councillors'. The title of 'Mayor' had been replaced by 'President', and P. Theagaraya Chetty was nominated as president, the first Indian to be so chosen. However, the office of Mayor was re-created in 1933, when Kumararajah M. A. Muthiah Chettiar made the transition from last President to first new Mayor. The mayoralty has remained thereafter.
By 1901, the corporation had grown to encompass an area of 68 sq km comprising 30 territorial divisions with a population of 540,000.
The Madras Municipal Corporation Act, 1919 (as amended) provides the basic statutory authority for the administration now.[7]
Zone
Expansion
In October 2011, the expansion process was initiated before the elections to the corporation council in October. In this, 42 small local bodies, including 9 municipalities, 8 town panchayats and 25 village panchayats, were merged with Chennai Corporation, taking the area up by 140% to 426 km2 from the earlier 176 km2.[8][9] Some areas have been arbitrarily left out, to the discontent of the residents of those areas.[10] The new expanded Corporation of Chennai has 200 wards, an increase of 45 wards.[11] Elections were held for the expanded corporation in October 2011.
The erstwhile municipalities that became a part of expanded
The erstwhile town panchayats that became a part of expanded Chennai Corporation are
.The erstwhile panchayat unions that became a part of expanded Chennai Corporation are
Administration
City officials, as of March 2022 | |
Mayor | Priya Rajan |
Deputy Mayor
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M. Mahesh Kumar |
Corporation Commissioner | J. Radhakrishnan |
Commissioner of Police
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Sandeep Rai Rathore |
From among themselves, the councillors elect the mayor and a deputy mayor who preside over about 10 standing committees.[12] The council normally meets once a month. The executive wing is headed by the Commissioner. In addition, there are deputy commissioners, various heads of departments and 15 zonal officers.[7]
The first native Indian to govern the
The metropolitan region of Chennai covers many suburbs that are part of
Administrative divisions
The city is classified into three regions: North Chennai, Central Chennai and South Chennai.
The 23 Zones are:
North Chennai
Central Chennai
Departments
The corporation has the following departments:[18]
S.No. | Department | Headed by | Responsibility |
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1 | Council | Council Secretary | Functions as the Secretariat of the council, the Mayor and the various standing committees. Aids the Mayor in the discharge of his duties as well as the Council and Standing Committees. |
2 | General Administration | Assistant Commissioner | In charge of the personnel and administrative matters for the corporation as a whole |
3 | Financial Management | Financial Adviser | Preparation of Corporation budget, receiving loans and grants from the government and overseeing and controlling the expenses of the Corporation |
4 | Land & Estate | District Revenue Officer | Leasing out Corporation lands and buildings and renting out shopping complexes |
5 | Revenue | Revenue Officer | Collection of taxes such as property, professional, advertisement, parking fees and other taxes. At the head office, change of name of ownership of properties, revision petitions against fixation of tax review of progress in collection of taxes and scrutiny and approval of assessment proposals. |
6 | Works | City Engineer | Town planning, sanction of plan and permits (up to first floor) for industrial and residential buildings, and maintenance of private streets and central asphalt plant and central yard. |
7 | Mechanical Engineering | Superintending Engineer (Mechanical) | Purchase and maintenance of all vehicles of the corporation, attending to body building and repairing of lorries, and purchase and maintenance of school and office furniture. The Printing Press, General Stores, and General Workshop of Corporation function under the control of this department. |
8 | Electrical | Superintending Engineer (Electrical) | Installation and maintenance of all street lights, laying of cables, and maintenance of electric crematoriums |
9 | Solid Waste Management | Superintending Engineer | Removal of solid waste and executing night conservancy in all important roads and commercial areas of the city |
10 | Buildings | Superintending Engineer | Construction of school buildings, public conveniences, community halls, shopping complexes and hospitals |
11 | Storm Water Drain | Superintending Engineer | Construction, maintenance and desilting of storm water drains |
12 | Bridges | Superintending Engineer | Construction and maintenance of bridges, causeways and subways |
13 | Health | Medical Officer | Administration of dispensaries, public health, sanitation, prevention of food adulteration, issue of birth, death, and sanitation certificates |
14 | Family Welfare | Medical Officer | Administration of maternity and child welfare centers, family welfare and immunization programmes |
15 | Education | Education Officer | Administration of schools from elementary to higher secondary levels, community colleges and nutritious meals centers |
16 | Parks & Play Fields | Director, Urban Forestry Wing (assisted by two Park Superintendents and one Stadia Officer) |
Maintenance of parks, play fields, and swimming pools |
Elections
The seats of the
Emblem
During the British period the Madras Corporation flag had the 'sea, boat, 3 lions and 2 fish'. The 3 lions represented the British and the sea, boat, and fish denoted the seashore of madras. After Independence, the need for changing the flag arose. M.P. Sivagnanam (
Police
The
Budget
As of 2020, the
Location and demography
Chennai Corporation area is located on the
Functions
The corporation maintains roads, streetlights, and flyovers across the city
Roads
The corporation maintains a total of 1,160 macadamised bus routes running to a total length of 353.94 km. The Total length of interior roads measures about 5,563.06 km. Total length of cement concrete roads maintained by the Corporation in the bus routes measures 3.68 km and the length of cement concrete interior roads measures 1,292.54 km.[8]
The newly expanded region of the corporation alone has 2,752 km of roads, along which there is a 682.4 km network of storm water drains.[31]
Street lamps in the city were introduced in 1785. Until the introduction of electric street lighting, the street lighting was done by oil lights. Till 1857, there were only 200 oil light lamps. By the year 1910, this was increased to 6,500. In 1910, electric street lighting was introduced. By 1924–1925, all the oil lights in the streets of the city were completely replaced by electric lights. The corporation also maintains 264 high-mast lights and 133 8-meter and 12-meter lamp posts with cluster lights at important junctions. The Corporation owns 22 hydraulic vehicles for attending maintenance work to streetlights.[32] In 2012, the Corporation started installing 60,000 streetlights in the newly included zones, in addition to replacing about 88,000 old streetlights in these zones.[33] Per the norm of the corporation, the minimum distance between two adjacent streetlights is 25 metre.[33]
As on 2012, the corporation maintains 262 bridges, road-overbridges and road-underbridges, including 65 high-level bridges, 31 box culverts, 81 slab culverts, 11 rail-overbridges, 14 rail-underbridges, 6 pedestrian subways, 6 causeways, 35 footbridges and 13 grade separators.[34]
In 2013, the corporation acquired a Road Measurement Data Acquisition System (ROMDAS) to check the quality of newly laid roads.[35]
Parks and open green spaces
Chennai has one of the lowest per capita green space in the country. As of 2012, It has only about 0.46 square metres per city dweller. According to the development rules, when plots measuring more than 10,000 square metres are developed, 10% of the area must be reserved as open space and gifted to the local bodies, and in plots measuring between 3,000 and 10,000 square metres, if gifting of 10% of the area as open space is not possible, cash equivalent can be paid. The money thus collected is utilized to develop the landscaping in the city.[36]
Since 1976, the Chennai Corporation has been collecting OSR charges and taking possession of land under the open space reservation rules. But so far it has not revealed what the total amount of land and cash collected. Data shows that since 2002, about 1.85 million square feet of land has been acquired.[37]
The corporation maintains 260 public parks, 154 traffic islands, and 103 centre medians on major roads. Since the formation of the corporation until 1947, the corporation had maintained 18 public play fields. As of 2012, the corporation maintains 228 play fields, 234 gymnasiums, 4 shuttles indoor stadium, 1 basketball indoor stadium, and 2 swimming pools. Of the 228 play fields, about 14 have been designated as star play ground with facilities such as courts for football, tennis, volleyball, ball badminton, and basketball. The gymnasiums are used by about 50 to 100 people every day. Indoor shuttle courts are located in
There are about 13,787 lights installed and maintained in the park and play fields by the corporation.[32]
Education
There are 322 schools run by the corporation, with a total student count of 130,000.[8] As per 2012–2013 corporation budget, 30 new English medium primary and middle schools will be started.[40] The civic body has also planned to construct 64 additional buildings on existing school campuses that require more classrooms. In addition, libraries and a career guidance centre would be set up in all corporation high and higher secondary schools.[40]
Health
The corporation maintains 75 dispensaries, 36 malaria clinics, 42 tuberculosis microscopic centres, and 1 centre each for communicable diseases, NGO-run malaria clinic, filaria clinic, and filaria lymphodema management clinic. The corporation maintains three slaughterhouses in Perambur, Villivakkam, and Saidapet, where an average of 1,500 sheep and 150 cattle are slaughtered every day.[8] As per 2012–2013 corporation budget, 11 new dental clinics will be set up in addition to the existing ones to ensure that every zone has a clinic.[40] A new hospital will be set up with a specialised leprosy centre and Mandambakkam to benefit the residents of South Chennai.[40] In 2007, it was reported that mosquitoes were the biggest menace in the city.[41] In 2012, the corporation announced that it was planning to breed sterile male mosquitoes to bring down the population of female mosquitoes.[42]
The corporation maintains electric furnace units at the burial grounds at Villivakkam, Nungambakkam, GKM colony, and Arumbakkam. It also maintains gassifier furnace units at Moolakothalam, Kannammapet, Besant Nagar Mylapore, Kasimedu, Vyasarpadi, Otteri, Thangal, Velangadu, Krishnampet, Saidapet, and Besant Nagar burial grounds.[32]
Solid waste management
Headed by a Superintendent Engineer, the corporation is responsible for removal of solid waste within city limits. Every day, 4,500 metric tons of garbage is collected and removed from the city. Night conservancy is being carried out in all important roads and commercial areas of the city. In addition, door-to-door collection of garbage is followed in all zones in the city.[43] The waste is transported by 966 conservancy vehicles.[7] The corporation maintains dumping grounds at Kodungaiyur and Perungudi for dumping solid waste.[7]
Chennai is hit by shortage of sanitary workers. To counter this, the corporation is to appoint 4,000 sanitary inspectors, junior engineers and assistant executive engineers in 2012.[44]
Garbage in most zones was previously handled by JBM Fanalca Environment Management, a private company, and by the Chennai Corporation in the other zones. Solid waste management in several parts of the city was subsequently handed over to Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd a
In other zones, the Corporation looks after the removal and processing of solid waste in the others,[52] with a superintendent engineer managing the channels. As of 2011, 8 transfer stations exist within the city for treating the waste.[53] Garbage is dumped in two dump-yards in the city—One in Kodungaiyur and another in Perungudi, with a major portion of the latter covering the Pallikaranai marshland.[54] In market areas, the conservancy work is done during the night.[55] Water supply and sewage treatment are handled by the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board, popularly referred to as Metro Water. Electricity is supplied by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.[56] Fire services are handled by the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Service.[57] The city, along with the suburbs, has 33 operating fire stations.[58]
Telecommunication
The city's telephone service is provided by three landline companies:
Waste management
The city generates 4,500 tonnes of garbage every day. The city has three dumpyards, one each at
Water
Historically, Chennai has relied on annual
The city's water supply and sewage treatment are managed by the
Awards
In December 2014, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) adjudged the Chennai Corporation as the best among all the government departments in terms of e-governance.[79]
Gallery
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Entrance view
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Alternate view
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Ripon Building under the Dark Clouds
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Complete front façade of the building
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Ripon Building at 1990
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Ripon Building panoramic view
See also
- Chennai
- List of Chennai Corporation wards
- List of mayors of Chennai
- Tambaram Corporation
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