Editing Kumbakonam (section)

== Administration and Politics ==
===Municipal Corporation ===
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!style="background:#A8BDEC" align="center" colspan="2"|'''Municipality corporation officials'''
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|align="center"| Mayor||K.Saravanan(Congress) <ref name="chairman">{{cite web|title=Mayor – Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation|url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/whos-who/chairman/|publisher=Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation|access-date=2023-11-07}}</ref>
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|align="center"|Corporation Commissioner||M.Senthil Murugan<ref name="chair">{{cite news|title=Nine more AC bus shelters to come up in Kumbakonam|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Nine-more-AC-bus-shelters-to-come-up-in-Kumbakonam/articleshow/19924209.cms|publisher=The Times of India|work=TNN|date=7 May 2013|access-date=2014-05-21|location=Kumbakonam}}</ref><ref name="commissioner_history">{{cite web|title=Commissioner History|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/who_commissioner.htm|publisher=Kumbakonam Municipality, Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=2012-11-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121218195513/http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/who_commissioner.htm|archive-date=18 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|align="center"|Deputy Mayor||Tamilazhagan(DMK)<ref>{{cite web|title=Deputy Chairperson|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/who_Deputy_%20chairperson.htm|publisher=Kumbakonam Municipality, Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=2012-11-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121219064359/http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/who_Deputy_%20chairperson.htm|archive-date=19 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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!style="background:#A8BDEC" align="center" colspan="2"|'''Elected members'''
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|align="center"|Member of Legislative Assembly||[[G. Anbalagan]]<ref>{{cite web|title=MLA of Kumbakonam|url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/profile/171.htm|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu|year=2011|access-date=2012-11-16|archive-date=23 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523162252/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/profile/171.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|align="center"|Member of Parliament||[[R. Sudha ]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Members of Lok Sabha from Tamil Nadu|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/government/loksaba?page=1|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu|year=2014|access-date =26 May 2014}}</ref>
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The Kumbakonam municipality was officially constituted in the year 1866.<ref name="interdictp503" /><ref name="munipalityorigin" /> Initially, the municipality exercised its jurisdiction over an area of {{cvt|7.68|sqkm}} and its affairs were administered by a town-level committee or municipal committee.<ref name="munipalityorigin" /> Later it was constituted special-grade municipality<ref name="municipalities">{{cite web|title=List of municipalities in Tamil Nadu|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/cma/list_of_municipalities.htm|publisher=Commissionerate of Municipal Administration, Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=2012-11-16}}</ref> and currently, exercises its authority over an area of {{convert|12.58|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}}<ref name="munipalityorigin" /> out of the town's total area of {{cvt|64.02|sqkm}}.<ref name="tnuifslp7" /> It comprises 48 wards<ref name="munipalityorigin" /> and is the biggest municipality in Thanjavur district.<ref name="tnuifslp4" /> The town was upgraded to a Municipal Corporation on 24 August 2021, with an administration authority area of {{cvt|42.9|km2}}.<ref name="TOI_MunicipToCorp">{{cite news
 | last = Shanmughasundaram
 | first = J.
 | title = Tambaram, Kancheepuram and four other municipalities to be corporations
 | newspaper = The Times of India
 | location = Chennai
 | pages =
 | language =
 | publisher = The Times Group
 | date = 24 August 2021
 | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tambaram-kancheepuram-to-be-among-six-new-corporations-in-tamil-nadu/articleshow/85594405.cms
 | access-date = 29 September 2021}}</ref>

The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: General, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, Town planning and the Computer Wing.<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=2012-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106103849/http://www.tn.gov.in/cma/chart5.htm |archive-date=2012-11-06 }}</ref> All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the supreme executive head.<ref name="organizationalchart" /> The legislative powers are vested in a body of 48 members, one each from each of the 48 wards.<ref name="munipalityorigin" /> The legislative body is headed by an elected chairperson who is assisted by a deputy chairperson.<ref name="economicweeklyp2396">{{cite book|title=Economic and political weekly, Volume 30|page=2396|publisher=Sameeksha Trust|year=1995}}</ref>

===Politics ===
Kumbakonam is a part of the [[Kumbakonam (State Assembly Constituency)|Kumbakonam Legislative Assembly constituency]] and elects a member to the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] once every five years.<ref name="delimitationcommission">{{cite web|work=Delimitation Commission of India Circular No.282/TN/2007-IV|title=Order No. 52|publisher=Delimitation Commission of India|date=13 August 2007|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Tamilnadu/Final%20Notification%20&%20Order%20.pdf|access-date=2012-11-16|page=71}}</ref><ref name="goughp141">[[#Gough|Gough]] 1981, p. 141</ref> Despite being a hub of militant [[Communism]] in the 1950s,<ref name="interdictp503" /> Kumbakonam voted for the [[Indian National Congress]] in the first five state elections held between 1952 and 1977.<ref name="goughp141" /><ref name="1952electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_MADRAS.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1952 to the Legislative Assembly of Madras|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=223}}</ref><ref name="1957electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Madras_1957.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1957 to the Legislative Assembly of Madras|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=5}}</ref><ref name="1962electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Madras_1962.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1962 to the Legislative Assembly of Madras|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=7}}</ref><ref name="1967electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Madras%201967.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Madras|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref><ref name="1971electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1971 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref><ref name="1977electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu77.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1977 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref> The [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] won the elections in 1977<ref name="1977electionresults" /> and between 1977 and 1989, the seat was alternatively held by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] or the Indian National Congress.<ref name="1977electionresults" /><ref name="1980electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu%201980.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref><ref name="1984electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1984/StatisticalReportTamilNadu84.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1984 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref> Since 1989, barring an interregnum of five years between 1991 and 1996,<ref name="1991electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-Tamil%20Nadu91.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1991 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref> the seat has been held by [[Ko. Si. Mani]] of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.<ref name="1989electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/StatisticalReportTamilNadu89.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 1989 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=8}}</ref><ref name="1996electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-TN96.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election 1996 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2012-11-16 |page=9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007221700/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-TN96.pdf |archive-date=2010-10-07 }}</ref><ref name="2001electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/Stat_Rep_TN_2001.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=9}}</ref><ref name="2006electionresults">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_TN_2006.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election 2006 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=2012-11-16|page=9}}</ref> Kumbakonam was a part of the [[Kumbakonam (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kumbakonam Lok Sabha constituency]] from 1952 until 1977, when the constituency was disbanded.<ref name="goughp141" /><ref name="goughp142">[[#Gough|Gough]] 1981, p. 142</ref> The assembly segments in the erstwhile Kumbakonam Lok Sabha constituency were included in the [[Mayiladuthurai (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mayiladuthurai Lok Sabha constituency]] and have remained so ever since.<ref name="delimitationcommission" />

===Law Enforcement===
Law and order in Kumbakonam in maintained by the Thanjavur subdivision of the [[Tamil Nadu Police]] headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).<ref name="Thanjavur police">{{cite web|title=District Police – Thanjavur|url=http://www.tnpolice.gov.in/PDFS/Thanjavur.pdf|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=2012-11-16|page=3}}</ref> There are four police stations in the town, one of them being an all-women police station.<ref>{{cite web|title=Police stations in Kumbakonam|url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/srv_police.htm|publisher=Kumbakonam Municipality, Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=2012-11-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121218205012/http://municipality.tn.gov.in/kumbakonam/srv_police.htm|archive-date=18 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> There are special units like prohibition enforcement, district crime, social justice and human rights, district crime records and special branch that operate at the district level police division headed by a Superintendent of Police (SP).<ref name="Thanjavur police" /> Suburban localities are under the jurisdiction of Swamimalai, Patteswarm, Nachiyarkovil, Tiruvidamarudhur, Thiruneelakudi police stations. Recently, the government has established one police station at Cholapuram by reorganizing Kumbakonam Taluk, Swamimalai and Thirupanandal Police station.