Coimbatore Municipal Corporation


The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Coimbatore in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the second largest municipal corporation in Tamil Nadu after Chennai with an area of 257.04 sq km.
WWW ccmc.gov.in/ccmc

History

The municipality of Coimbatore was established in 1866 according to the Town Improvements Act of 1865, with industrialist Sir Robert Stanes as its first Chairman. The early days of the municipality were difficult as it had to tackle plague epidemics and earthquakes. In 1934, the municipality elected its first woman Chairman, K. Thankamma Jacob.Justice Party politician R. K. Shanmukham Chetty served as the Vice-Chairman of the municipality from 1917 to 1920. in 1981, Coimbatore was elevated to a municipal corporation, the third in Tamil Nadu by the merger of Singanallur Municipality with Coimbatore Municipality. In 2011, Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation limits were expanded by merging nearby areas of Coimbatore and making its area from 105 km² to 257.04 km². In 2012, the Corporation won the "Best Corporation Award" from the Government of Tamil Nadu.

Logo

The logo of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation includes Indian national flag.

Area

In 2011, three municipalities namely Kuniyamuthur, Kurichi and Kavundampalayam, seven town panchayats namely Saravanampatti, Kalapatti, Vadavalli, Thudiyalur, Veerakeralam, Chinnavedampatti, Vellakinar and Vilankurichi village panchayat were annexed by the Corporation by increasing the size from 105 km.sq. to 257.04 km.sq.
In 2024 there was a proposal by Tamilnadu Government to merge Madukkarai municipality, five town panchayats namely Perur, Vedapatti, Irugur, Vellalore, Pallapalayam and eleven urbanized village panchayats namely Pattanam, Seerapalayam, Perur Chettipalayam, Somayampalayam, Kurudampalayam, Keeranatham, Vellanaipatti, Neelambur, Chinniampalayam, Mylampatti and Kallipalayam with Coimbatore Corporation.
However in January 2025, Tamilnadu Government merged
  1. Perur,
  2. Vedapatti,
  3. Irugur,
  4. Vellalore and
  • eleven urbanized village panchayats namely
  1. Sulur Panchayat Union,
  2. Periyanaickenpalayam Panchayat Union,
  3. Sarkarsamakulam Panchayat Union,
  4. Madukkarai Panchayat Union
with Coimbatore Corporation to make it the state's largest corporation with an area of 415 sq.km.

Structure

This corporation consists of 100 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 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.

Wards

ZoneWard NumberWard NameAreas CoveredAssembly ConstituencyCouncillorPolitical Group
1Karpagam RDMK
2Pushpamani ADMK
3Kavitha SDMK
4Kathirvelusamy RDMK
5Naveenkumar GINC
6Ponnusamy SDMK
7Govindaraj MDMK
8Vijayakumar KDMK
9Saraswathi PDMK
10Kathirvel VDMK
11Palanisamy Siravai Siva PDMK
12Ramamoorthy VCPI
13Sumathi NCPI
14Chithra TMDMK
15Santhamani PINC
16Tamilselvan PDMK
17Subashree SDMK
18Radhakrishnan ADMK
19Kalpana ADMK
20Mariaraj ADMK
21Poongodi SomasundaramDMK
22Kovai Babu Selvakumar MDMK
23Manian KDMK
24Boopathi RCPI
25Thavamani PalaniappanDMK
26Chithra VellingiriMDMK
27Ambika DhanapalDMK
28Kannagi JothibasuCPI
29Ranganayaki RDMK
30Saranya SDMK
31Vairamurugan Murugan RDMK
32Parthiban RDMK
33Krishnamoorthy ADMK
34Malathi NDMK
35Sambath NDMK
36Theivanai TDMK
37Kumutham KDMK
38Sharmila CAIADMK
39Lakshmi BDMK
40Bathmavathi RDMK
41Santhi CCPI
42Praveenraj KDMK
43Mallika PCPI
44Gayathri RINC
45Babysutha RDMK
46Meenalogu LDMK
47Prabhakaran RAIADMK
48Prabha RavindranCPI
49Annakodi EDMK
50Geetha CDMK
51Amsaveni MDMK
52Lakshmi Ellanselvi KarthickDMK
53Mohan DCPI
54Bakkiyam DDMK
55Dharmaraj TMDMK
56Krishnamoorthy MINC
57Santhamani PDMK
58Sumithra GDMK
59Deepa Thalapathy Ellango MDMK
60Siva MDMK
61Adhi Maheshwari DDMK
62Revathi MuraliDMK
63Santhi MuruganDMK
64Jayapradha Devi Srinivasan SDMK
65Rajeswari MDMK
66Munniyammal PDMK
67Vidhya RDMK
68Kamalavathi BoseDMK
69Saravanakumar SINC
70Sarmila Suresh NarayananDMK
71Alagu Jayabalan AINC
72Selvaraj KDMK
73Santhosh DDMK
74Sankar SINC
75Angulakshmi SDMK
76Rajkumar PDMK
77Rajalakshmi SDMK
78Sivasakthi KDMK
79Vasanthamani PDMK
80Mariselvan PDMK
81Manokaran MDMK
82Mubaseera MDMK
83Suma VDMK
84Alima Begum RSDPI
85Sarala VINC
86Ahamed Kabir EDMK
87Babu PDMK
88Senthil Kumar PDMK
89Murugesan KINC
90Ramesh DAIADMK
91Rajendran MDMK
92Vetriselvan RDMK
93Ellansekaran PDMK
94Dhanalakshmi RDMK
95Abdul Kathar SDMK
96Gunasekaran PDMK
97Selvi Nevedha SDMK
98Udhayakumar RDMK
99Aslam Basha MDMK
100Karthikeyan RDMK

Administration

For administrative purpose the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation is divided into five zones namely North, South, East, West and Central headed by a chairman.
  • The North Zone will have Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
  • The East Zone will have Wards 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61
  • The Central Zone will have Wards 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84
  • The South Zone will have Wards 76, 77, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
  • The West Zone will have Wards 16, 17, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,
The offices of the respective zones are located at the following locations:

Elections

In the 2022 Tamil Nadu urban local body elections, DMK and its allies in the Secular Progressive Alliance, won 96 wards out of total 100 wards for Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation. The DMK won 76 and its allies 20. Among the allies of DMK, Congress won nine, CPI and CPI - four each, and MDMK three wards. The incumbent ruling party in the Coimbtore corporation council, AIADMK won three seats. Social Democratic Party of India won 1 ward.

Utilities

The executive wing of the corporation is headed by a Corporation Commissioner assisted by Deputy Commissioner. The corporation runs and maintains basic services like water, sewage and roads. The district itself is administered by the District Collector.

Law enforcement

The Coimbatore City Police was formed in 1972 after the bifurcation of the existing Coimbatore Police Force to assist in law enforcement. Coimbatore police commissionerate was formed in 1990. The jurisdiction of the Commissionerate of Police extends to the jurisdictional limits of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation. In 2011, when the limits of the Municipal Corporation were increased, the jurisdiction of the police was also increased to include newly added areas. There are 18 police stations in Coimbatore City, numbered B - 1 to B - 15 along with three "All-Women" Police stations. The CCP has three wings: traffic, law and order, and crime. Each of these wings comes under four zones: North, South, East and West. The District Court is the highest court of appeal in Coimbatore.