- List of mayors of Yanam
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Main article: Yanam Municipality
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 (1885-1886)
- SAMATAM Venkatasubbaraidu (1886)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya (1886-1891)
- KONA Narasaya (1891-1897)
- ...(1897-1903)
- BEZAWADA Bapanaya (1903-1912)
- Bezawada Bapa Naidou (1925-1931)
- Kamichetty Venougopala Rao Naidou (1931-1937)
- ...(1937-1948)
- MADIMSETTI Satianandam (1948-1954)
- SAMATAM Kistaya (1954)
- Indian municipality (1954-1974)
- SINGAMCHETTY Kamarajou
- KANAKALA Mahalakshmi
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 Pondicherry
- Indian Ministry for External Affairs - 1956 Treaty of Cession
- THE FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA
Union Territory of Puducherry Capital Districts Municipalities Languages Education Places of interest Categories:- Yanam
- Puducherry
- Lists of mayors
- Mayors of places in India
- Lists of Indian politicians
- French commune (1880-1954)
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