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A retired worker of Madurai Corporation has filed a nationalist involvement litigation petition earlier the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking a absorption to the Corporation to convene the Corporation Council meeting.
A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan sought the effect of the Madurai Corporation Commissioner to a petition filed by T.R. Desikachary. The petitioner said nary Council gathering was convened for the past 3 months.
He said the prolonged nonaccomplishment to convene statutory meetings resulted successful respective docket items, nationalist payment measures, fiscal approvals and civic issues remaining unaddressed, thereby paralysing antiauthoritarian functioning astatine the municipal level.
He said successful October 2025, the 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 Madurai city.
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 Madurai Corporation is presently 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 is governed by Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act and Rules which unneurotic represent a implicit statutory codification ensuring antiauthoritarian governance, accountability, and transparency, helium said. The tribunal posted the substance for proceeding to January 28.
