Editing Mayiladuthurai (section)

==Administration and politics==
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!  style="background:#a8bdec; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|'''Municipality Officials'''
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| style="text-align:center;" |Commissioner||A. Veera Muthukumar<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 Mar 2025 |title=Mayiladuthurai Municipality |url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/commissioner/ |access-date=30 Mar 2025 |website=Mayiladuthurai Municipality}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;" |Chairman||N.Selvaraj<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 March 2025 |title=Mayiladuthurai Municipality |url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/whos-who/chairman/ |access-date=30 March 2025 |website=Mayiladuthurai Municipality}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"|Vice Chairman||S.Sivakkumar<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 March 2025 |title=Mayiladuthurai Municipality |url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/vice-chairman/ |access-date=30 March 2025 |website=Mayiladuthurai Municipality}}</ref>
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!  style="background:#a8bdec; text-align:center;" colspan="2"|'''Elected Members'''
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| style="text-align:center;"|Member of Legislative Assembly||S.Rajakumar<ref name="MLA of Mayiladuthurai">{{cite web|title=MLA of Mayiladuthurai |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/constnamewise.htm |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |year=2012 |access-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006234417/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/constnamewise.htm |archive-date=6 October 2013 }}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"|Member of Parliament||[[Sudha Ramakrishnan]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 March 2025 |title=Election Commission of India |url=https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS2228.htm |access-date=30 March 2025 |website=General Election to Parliamentary Constituencies}}</ref>
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It is the headquarters of the newly formed Mayiladuthurai district. The town of Mayiladuthurai is administered by a municipal council which was created in 1866 as per the Town Improvements Act 1865.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Playne |first=Somerset |url=https://www.google.com.qa/books/edition/Southern_India_Its_History_People_Commer/Q4xEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mayavaram+history&pg=PA463&printsec=frontcover |title=Southern India, Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources |last2=Bond |first2=J. W. |last3=Wright |first3=Arnold |date=1915 |publisher=Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Company |language=en}}</ref> The council initially had eleven members.<ref name="munci_abtus">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/abus_municip.html|publisher=Mayiladuthurai Municipality|year=2011|access-date=17 May 2014}}</ref> This was increased to 18 in 1883.<ref name="munci_abtus" /><ref name="hemingwayp213">[[#Hemingway|Hemingway]], p. 213</ref>

As of 2025, the municipality covered an area of {{convert|11.27|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} and had a total of 36 members.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 March 2025 |title=MAYILADUTHURAI MUNICIPALITY - Ward List and Details |url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2022/07/street.pdf |access-date=30 March 2025 |website=MAYILADUTHURAI MUNICIPALITY - Ward List and Details}}</ref> The functions of the municipality is devolved into six departments: General, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, Town planning and the Computer Wing. All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the supreme executive head.<ref name="organizationalchart">{{cite web|title=Commissionerate of Municipal Administration |url=http://www.tn.gov.in/cma/chart5.htm |publisher=Commissionerate of Municipal Administration |access-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106103849/http://www.tn.gov.in/cma/chart5.htm |archive-date=6 November 2012 }}</ref> The legislative powers are vested in a body of 36 members, one each from the 36 wards.<ref name="councillor">{{cite web|title=Councillors of municipality|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/who_councilors.html|publisher=Mayiladuthurai municipality|access-date=1 January 2014|year=2011}}</ref> The legislative body is headed by an elected Chairperson assisted by a Deputy Chairperson.<ref name="economicweeklyp2396">[[#Economic|Economic and political weekly 1995]], p. 2396</ref> There are a total of four revenue villages with Mayiladuthurai - [[Thiruvilandur]], [[Dharmapuram]], Nanchilnadu and [[Kornad]].<ref name="general_info">{{cite web|title=General Information|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/sal_generalinformation.html|publisher=Mayiladuthurai Municipality|year=2011|access-date=17 May 2014}}</ref> The municipality has allocated a budget of {{INR}}2,183,350,000 for the year 2010–11.<ref name="Mayiladuthurai_budget">{{cite web|title=Budget 2010–11|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/mayiladuthurai/budget1314.pdf|language=ta|publisher=Mayiladuthurai Municipality|access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref> In 2023, Mayiladuthurai's selection grade municipality upgraded to special grade municipality.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fernando |first=Antony |date=2023-04-18 |title='Special-grade municipality' status to boost Mayiladuthurai's infrastructure growth in TN |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2023/Apr/17/special-grade-municipality-status-to-boost-mayiladuthurais-infrastructure-growth-in-tn-2566547.html |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

Mayiladuthurai is represented in the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] by the [[Mayiladuturai (State Assembly Constituency)|Mayiladuthurai state assembly constituency seat]].<ref name="assemblyconstituencymap">{{cite web|title=Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency map |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/Const_map/map.htm |publisher=[[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] |access-date=17 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614070155/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/const_map/map.htm |archive-date=14 June 2012 }}</ref>

[[Mayiladuthurai (State Assembly Constituency)|Mayiladuthurai]] is a part of the [[Mayiladuthurai (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=election62>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf|title=Key highlights of the general elections 1962 to the Third Lok Sabha|publisher=Election Commission of India|page=49|access-date=16 April 2011}}</ref><ref name=elections80>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |title=Key highlights of the general elections 1980 to the Seventh Lok Sabha |publisher=Election Commission of India |page=79 |access-date=26 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref> The current Member of Parliament from the constituency is [[S. Ramalingam]] of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] party.