Palayampatti panchayat residents oppose merger with Aruppukottai Municipality
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Palayampatti panchayat residents oppose merger with Aruppukottai Municipality

The Hindu  

Residents of Palayampatti panchayat under Aruppukottai union on Monday thronged the Collectorate in large numbers to hand over hundreds of petitions opposing the State Government’s proposal to merge part of their panchayat with nearby Aruppukottai Town municipality. The villagers have been protesting against the proposal claiming that the economically weaker sections under the rural local body would lose their jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme if their area becomes an urban local body. After the State Government announced that any objection to the merger of the rural areas with the urban local bodies should be made in writing within six weeks, a large number of villagers came to the Collectorate. The petitions addressed to the Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply, says the residents would lose the benefits of assistance under various Central and State Government schemes as per the Panchayat Raj Act if their area becomes a part of Aruppukottai municipality.

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Palayampatti residents against merger with Aruppukottai municipality
1 month ago

Palayampatti residents against merger with Aruppukottai municipality

The Hindu  

ARUPPUKOTTAI Residents of Palayampatti have put up placards outside their houses expressing their opposition to the State government’s proposal to merge parts of the rural local body with the adjacent Aruppukottai municipality. The placards, put up by Palayampatti Panchayat Protection People’s Movement, appealed to the State government to give up its plan to merge parts of Palayampatti panchayat with Aruppukottai …

Objections to merge panchayats with corporations will be reviewed, says K.N. Nehru
1 month, 1 week ago

Objections to merge panchayats with corporations will be reviewed, says K.N. Nehru

The Hindu  

Petitions submitted to the District Collectors to exempt their villages from merging with the corporations and municipalities would be considered and reviewed, said Minister for Municipal Administration K.N. Mr. Nehru said objections to merge panchayats with the corporations could be made within 120 days with the respective Collectors. He pointed out that “unlike previous times, works to implement water projects …

MLA Sengottaiyan opposes merging of village panchayats with municipalities
1 month, 2 weeks ago

MLA Sengottaiyan opposes merging of village panchayats with municipalities

The Hindu  

Gobichettipalayam MLA and former AIADMK Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan submitted a petition to Collector Raja Gopal Sunkara opposing the move to merge various village panchayats with municipalities at the Collectorate on Monday. The petition stated that the State government had proposed the merger of several village panchayats: Pariyur, P. Vellalapalayam, Kullampalayam, and Modachur with Gobichettipalayam Municipality; Akkaraikodiveri Panchayat with Periyakodiveri Town …

Residents of Pattanam panchayat demand merger with Coimbatore Corporation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Residents of Pattanam panchayat demand merger with Coimbatore Corporation

The Hindu  

Residents of Pattanam panchayat in Coimbatore district have expressed concerns after being excluded from the recent merger of local bodies with the Coimbatore Corporation. With growing infrastructure needs, including the presence of industries and educational institutions, these issues have become increasingly difficult to ignore.” R. Govindharajan of Pattanam Panchayat Makkal Mandram said, “Water access is insufficient. Tamil Nadu Water Supply …

Residents oppose merger of Samusigapuram panchayat with Rajapalayam municipality
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Residents oppose merger of Samusigapuram panchayat with Rajapalayam municipality

The Hindu  

VIRUDHUNAGAR Residents of Samusigapuram village panchayat staged a wait-in protest on the panchayat office premises on Tuesday seeking to scrap the proposal to merge the rural local body with Rajapalayam municipality. The protest was led by Tamil Nadu Nesavalargal Munnetra Kazhagam president A. Ganesan and former panchayat president Rajagopal. CPI cadre M. Somasundaram said that the lot of residents of …

Residents oppose move to merge villages with Dindigul Corporation
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Residents oppose move to merge villages with Dindigul Corporation

The Hindu  

The residents of eight villages: Adiyanoothu, Thottanuthu, Chettinayakanpatti, Seelapadi, Pallapatti, Balakrishnapuram, Mullipadi and Kurumbapatti in Dindigul district on Monday submitted a petition to Dindigul Collector M.N. The residents said that a resolution was passed at the gram sabha meetings held on January 26 opposing the merger of with Dindigul Corporation. The residents said that the livelihood of the villagers would …

Residents oppose merger of village panchayat with Thoothukudi Corporation
2 months ago

Residents oppose merger of village panchayat with Thoothukudi Corporation

The Hindu  

More than 100 residents from Kootampuli, Thirumalaiapuram, Siluvaipuram, Siruppadu and Saveriarpuram villages under Kumaragiri panchayat submitted a petition at the weekly grievance redressal meeting in Thoothukudi opposing the integration of their villages with the Corporation. The Government of Tamil Nadu on January 1 released the list proposing the reorganisation of local bodies, which also included the merger of village panchayats …

Residents of Neelambur panchayat oppose merger with Coimbatore Corporation
2 months ago

Residents of Neelambur panchayat oppose merger with Coimbatore Corporation

The Hindu  

Residents of Neelambur village panchayat in Coimbatore have opposed the government proposal to merge their panchayat with the Coimbatore Corporation. Villagers and farmers raised concerns that the merger would end their access to funds provided under the Panchayati Raj scheme, which, they said, had been essential for executing basic infrastructure projects. They also expressed fears of a rise in property …

Somayampalayam residents oppose proposed merger with Coimbatore Corporation
2 months, 1 week ago

Somayampalayam residents oppose proposed merger with Coimbatore Corporation

The Hindu  

Residents of Somayampalayam village panchayat have voiced strong opposition to the State government’s decision to merge the village with Coimbatore Corporation. One major concern is the potential loss of the 100-day employment scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which is available only to panchayats. As a panchayat, residents have more control over local decision-making, but the …

MGNREGS workers in Erode oppose merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities
2 months, 2 weeks ago

MGNREGS workers in Erode oppose merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities

The Hindu  

Opposing the merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities, as it would allegedly affect the families dependent on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, over 500 women submitted a petition to the Sub-Collector in Gobichettipalayam on Friday. Addressing the workers, Mr. Sundaram said the State government had recently issued a notification to merge 10 village panchayats with …

Merger of local bodies: Scores of villagers from Palayampatti panchayat stage protest
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Merger of local bodies: Scores of villagers from Palayampatti panchayat stage protest

The Hindu  

Scores of men and women of Palayampatti staged a demonstration in front of the Panchayat Union office at Palayampatti on Thursday protesting against the proposal to include parts of Palayampatti village panchayat with Aruppukottai municipality. The villagers wanted the State Government to scrap the order proposing to incude three streets of Ward 6 and three streets of ward 7 and …

Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers

The Hindu  

The latest proposal to merge all 64 gram panchayats of Bhimili, Anandapuram and Padmanabham mandals of Visakhapatnam district with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has sparked a debate among the people of those mandals, which are located on either side of National Highway-16, and are less than 25 km away from the under-construction Bhogapuram International Airport. Padmanabham MPP Kantubothu Rambabu …

CPI(M) opposes move to merge six village panchayats with Erode Corporation
7 months, 3 weeks ago

CPI(M) opposes move to merge six village panchayats with Erode Corporation

The Hindu  

The proposal to merge six village panchayats with Erode Corporation will deny works to beneficiaries under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, said the Communist Party of India and All India Agricultural Workers Union in a petition submitted to an official at the Erode Union office on Monday. Led by CPI taluk secretary N. Balasubramani and the union’s …

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister
1 year, 2 months ago

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister

New Indian Express  

As per a government press release, 20 representatives of village panchayats met with Thangaraj in the presence of Collector P N Sridhar and urged the minister to give up the proposed merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies. "Kanniyakumari is a district with the least number of village panchayats, after Chennai and Nilgiris, in the state that includes 12,525 …

My goal is overall development of Udupi district: Lakshmi Hebbalkar
1 year, 7 months ago

My goal is overall development of Udupi district: Lakshmi Hebbalkar

The Hindu  

Udupi district in-charge Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar on Monday, August 14, said development of the district is her goal and there will be no politics when it came to development. She was speaking after inaugurating several projects, including a market complex built by the Coastal Development Authority, at Mudar Gram Panchayat in Karkala taluk. Ms. Hebbalkar noted that the district has …

A battle for rights: Why a nagar panchayat in Chhattisgarh fought to reclaim its legal status as a village
4 years, 11 months ago

A battle for rights: Why a nagar panchayat in Chhattisgarh fought to reclaim its legal status as a village

Firstpost  

Vishrampuri in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh became one of the villages to be declared a nagar panchayat in 2009. However, in violation of this Act and without consulting the gram sabha — a mandatory process in these scheduled areas — the Vishrampuri village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region became one of the villages to be declared a nagar panchayat in …

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