A French Metropolitan Decree, dated 12 March 1880 adopted a six-year term of office for Mayors (Maire), municipal councillors (Conseil municipaux) and commune panchayats (communes). Thus French India has seen a French system of municipal administration. In the past, municipal administration was virtually the pivot of the whole administrative machinery in French India. It had several features that could serve as a role model for hassle-free administration.
Then a total of 10 communes were formed in which Yanaon became one commune with a strength of 12 Municipal Councillors (conseillers municipaux). First elections were held on 30 May 1880. The 26 January 1974 Commune Panchayat Act provides for a two tier system of Panchayat administration, one at the Village level and the other at the Commune level. The Mayors and Deputy mayors ceased to function with effect from that date. All the executive powers of the Mayors stood transferred to the Commissioners appointed under these Acts.
Present Chairman and Vice-chairman of Yanam Municipal Council was Gidla Chandra Rao and Pendem Surya Prakash.
List of Mayors
- French commune (1880–1954)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya Naidou (1880–1883)
- PAINDICONDALA Subbaya (1883–1885)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya Naidou (1885–1886)
- SAMATAM Venkatasubbaraidu (1886)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya Naidou (1886–1891)
- KONA Narasaya (1891–1897)
- ...(1897–1903)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya Naidou (1903–1912)
- BEZAWADA Bapa Naidou (1925–1931)[1]
- KAMICHETTY Venougopala Rao Naidou (1931–1937)[2]
- ...(1937–1948)
- MADIMCHETTY Satianandam (1948–1954)[3]
- SAMATAM Kistaya (1954)
- Indian municipality (1954–1974)
- CAMIDI Vincanna (c.1961-c.1964[4])
- KAMICHETTY Savithri (c.1964-c.1967)[5][6]
List of Municipal Chairpersons
Gidla Chandra Rao (2006-till date)
See also
References
- ^ Journal Officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 1925.
- ^ Journal Officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 1931.
- ^ Journal Officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 1948.
- ^ "The Union Territory of Pondicherry, Maps & Charts" (PDF). Ajaib Singh, Bureau of Statistics. Government of Pondicherry. 1963. p. 14.
- ^ "Directory of Indian Women Today, 1976". Ajīta Kaura, Arpana Caur. India International Publications. 1976. p. 251.
- ^ "La Gazette de l'État". Pondicherry Government. 1964. p. 668.
External links
- Official District website of Yanam
- Future of French India, by Russel H. Fifield (Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan
- Pravasandhrulu in France: identity and integration by Jonnalagadda Anuradha, France
- Official website of the Government of the Union Territory of Puducherry
- Indian Ministry for External Affairs - 1956 Treaty of Cession
- THE FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA
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