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Tirunelveli becomes a municipal corporation

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Tirunelveli becomes a municipal corporation
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Merged with the municipalities of Palayamkottai and Melapalayam, Tirunelveli became a corporation.

Tirunelveli had had a municipality since 1866. It was turned into a municipal corporation on 1 June 1994, bringing together the town, the Palayamkottai and Melapalayam municipalities, Thachanallur town panchayat and eleven village panchayats. Four zones make up the corporation. In the same year, 1994, Salem and Tiruchirappalli were also made corporations.

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  2. 1994

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  3. 1997

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  4. 1999

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