Expansion
In October 2011 the expansion process was initiated before the elections to the corporation council in October. In this move, 42 small local bodies were merged with the Chennai Corporation, taking the area up to 426 km2.
However,the expanded Chennai city area is still much smaller than Bangalore and Hyderabad corporation limits. Some areas have been arbitrarily left out, to the discontent of the residents of those areas.
The new expanded Corporation of Chennai has 200 wards, an increase of 45 wards. Elections were held for the expanded corporation in October 2011.
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