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Kumbakonam upgraded to a municipal corporation

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Kumbakonam upgraded to a municipal corporation
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On 24 August 2021, Kumbakonam, which had been a municipality since 1866, became a municipal corporation.

Made a municipality in 1866, Kumbakonam was later classed as a special-grade municipality. It gained the status of a municipal corporation, with 48 wards, on 24 August 2021. On that same day a number of other towns, Sivakasi among them, were also declared corporations. A temple town in the Cauvery delta, Kumbakonam hosts the Mahamaham festival.

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