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The Madurai Corporation connected Wednesday informed the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that the Corporation Council gathering would beryllium convened connected February 10.
A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan was informed that the Commissioner had issued a announcement to convene the Council meeting. The tribunal was proceeding a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by T.R. Desikachary, a retired Corporation employee. The petitioner complained that the Council gathering had not been convened for the past 3 months.
The prolonged nonaccomplishment to convene statutory meetings resulted successful respective docket items, nationalist payment measures, fiscal approvals and civic issues remaining unaddressed, thereby paralysing the antiauthoritarian functioning astatine the municipal level, helium said.
In October 2025, Mayor V. Indrani Ponvasanth tendered her resignation from the post. She submitted the resignation missive to the Corporation Commissioner aft months of governmental and administrative turbulence arising from the alleged large-scale irregularities successful spot taxation assessments successful the city, helium said.
Prior to her resignation, 5 zonal chairpersons and 2 lasting committee chairpersons of the Corporation had submitted their resignations amid the probe into the spot taxation appraisal process, which included alleged manipulation of records, helium said.
He said the Corporation was present nether important nationalist and administrative scrutiny owed to its mediocre show connected municipality sanitation and civic work delivery, arsenic highlighted by the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 rankings.
Functioning of the Corporation Council was governed by the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act and Rules which unneurotic constituted a implicit statutory codification ensuring antiauthoritarian governance, accountability, and transparency, helium said. He had sought a absorption to the Corporation to convene the Council meeting.
Taking into relationship that the Council gathering would beryllium convened connected February 10, the tribunal disposed of the petition.
