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Salem becomes a municipal corporation

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Salem becomes a municipal corporation
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Salem municipality was declared the Salem City Municipal Corporation on 1 June 1994.

Salem had been a municipality since the nineteenth century and was recognised as a centenary municipality in 1966. On 1 June 1994 it was declared the Salem City Municipal Corporation. The upgrade came as Salem grew as a centre of textiles, sago processing, magnesite mining and steel. Tiruchirappalli and Tirunelveli were made corporations in the same year.

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