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Kannur Municipal Corporation

The Kannur Municipal Corporation is the municipal corporation that administers the city of Kannur, Kerala. Established in 2015, the Corporation's first mayor was E. P. Latha.[5] Kannur Corporation has two assembly constituencies – Kannur Assembly constituency and Azhikode Assembly constituency – both of which are part of the Kannur parliamentary constituency. The Corporation is headed by a Mayor and council, and manages 78.35 km2 of Kannur city, with a population of about 232,486 within that area.[6][7] Kannur Municipal Corporation has been formed with functions to improve the infrastructure of town.

History

Kannur Lighthouse

The ancient port of Naura, which is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as a port somewhere north of Muziris is identified with Kannur.[8] Ezhimala was the headquarters of a powerful kingdom who later became Mushika dynasty in the ancient period.[8] Kannur was an important trading centre in the 12th century, with active business connections with Persia and Arabia. In his book on travels (Il Milione), Marco Polo recounts his visit to the area in the mid 1290s. Other visitors included Faxian, the Buddhist pilgrim and Ibn Batuta, writer and historian of Tangiers. It served as the British military headquarters on India's west coast until 1887. Kannur Cantonment is the only cantonment board in Kerala. Kannur was the capital city of Kolathunadu, one of the four powerful kingdoms who ruled Kerala during the medieval period. Arakkal Kingdom and Chirakkal kingdom were two vassal kingdoms based in the city of Kannur. The port at Kozhikode held the superior economic and political position in medieval Kerala coast, while Kannur, Kollam, and Kochi, were commercially important secondary ports, where the traders from various parts of the world would gather.[9]

The Portuguese arrived at Kappad Kozhikode in 1498 during the Age of Discovery, thus opening a direct sea route from Europe to India.[10] The St. Angelo Fort at Kannur was built in 1505 by Dom Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese Viceroy of India. The Dutch captured the fort from the Portuguese in 1663. They modernized the fort and built the bastions Hollandia, Zeelandia, and Frieslandia that are the major features of the present structure. The original Portuguese fort was pulled down later. A painting of this fort and the fishing ferry behind it can be seen in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The Dutch sold the fort to the king Ali Raja of Arakkal in 1772.

During the 17th century, Kannur was the capital city of the only Muslim Sultanate in the Malabar region - Arakkal.[11] Arakkal Kingdom and Chirakkal kingdom were two vassal kingdoms based in the city of Kannur. The Ali Rajas of Arakkal kingdom, near Kannur, who were the vassals of the Kolathiri, ruled over the Lakshadweep islands.[12] The island of Dharmadom near Kannur, along with Thalassery, was ceded to the East India Company as early as 1734, which were claimed by all of the Kolattu Rajas, Kottayam Rajas, and Arakkal Bibi in the late medieval period, where the British initiated a factory and English settlement following the cession.[13][14] The British conquered the fort Kannur in 1790 and used it as one of their major military stations on the Malabar Coast. During the British Raj, Kannur was part of the Madras presidency in the Malabar District.

A portrait of Kannur drawn in 1572, from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, Volume I

Kannur municipality was formed on 1 November 1866 according to the Madras Act 10 of 1865 (Amendment of the Improvements in Towns act 1850)[15][16][17][18] of the British Indian Empire, making it the second oldest municipality in the state. The Kannur Municipal Corporation was created by merging the erstwhile Municipality of Kannur, and Panchayats of Pallikunnu, Puzhathi, Edakkad, Elayavoor, and Chelora in 2015.[19]

Revenue sources

The following are the Income sources for the Corporation from the Central and State Government.[20][21][22]

Revenue from taxes

Following is the Tax related revenue for the corporation.

Revenue from non-tax sources

Following is the Non Tax related revenue for the corporation.

Members of the Corporation Council

Skyline of Kannur city

Key

  INC   IUML   CPI(M)   CPI   BJP   Independent

Election results

Kannur Municipal Corporation Election 2020

Kannur Municipal Corporation Election 2015

Mayors of Kannur

Deputy Mayors

References

  1. ^ Staff Reporter (28 December 2020). "Muslih Madathil to be Kannur Mayor". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  2. ^ Special Currespondent (29 December 2020). "Mayors, Deputy Mayors elected in 6 Corporations". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Municipal Secretary, Kannur". Urban Affairs Kerala.
  4. ^ http://lsgkerala.gov.in/pages/standingCommittee.php?intID=4&ID=171&ln=en [dead link]
  5. ^ PTI (18 November 2015). "CPI(M) rides to power in five of six corporations in Kerala". Economic Times. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011" (PDF). Population of the urban local bodies in Kerala (2011). Government of Kerala. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Kannur Corporation, Councillors". Department of Local Self Governance, Kerala. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b Menon, A. Sreedhara (2007). A Survey of Kerala History. DC Books. ISBN 9788126415786.
  9. ^ The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads 1500–1800. Festschrift in Honour of Prof. K. S. Mathew (2001). Edited by: Pius Malekandathil and T. Jamal Mohammed. Fundacoa Oriente. Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities of MESHAR (Kerala)
  10. ^ DC Books, Kottayam (2007), A. Sreedhara Menon, A Survey of Kerala History
  11. ^ "Arakkal royal family". Archived from the original on 5 June 2012.
  12. ^ Henry Morse Stephens (1897). "Chapter 1". Albuquerque. Rulers of India series. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 978-81-206-1524-3.
  13. ^ Charles Alexander Innes (1908). Madras District Gazetteers Malabar (Volume-I). Madras Government Press. p. 451.
  14. ^ Logan, William (2010). Malabar Manual (Volume-I). New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. pp. 631–666. ISBN 9788120604476.
  15. ^ "CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CENTRAL ACTS (Updated up to 17-10-2014)". Lawmin.nic.in. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  16. ^ Lewis McIver, G. Stokes (1883). Imperial Census of 1881 Operations and Results in the Presidency of Madras ((Vol II) ed.). Madras: E.Keys at the Government Press. p. 444. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  17. ^ Presidency, Madras (India (1915). Madras District Gazetteers, Statistical Appendix For Malabar District (Vol.2 ed.). Madras: The Superintendent, Government Press. p. 20. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  18. ^ HENRY FROWDE, M.A., Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908–1909). Imperial Gazetteer of India (New ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  19. ^ Special Currespondent (14 January 2015). "Kannur to be City Corporation". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  20. ^ Jadhav, Radheshyam (3 December 2020). "Why civic bodies in India need municipal bonds". www.thehindubusinessline.com. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  21. ^ "Municipal corporations under severe strain as revenues sink: RBI Report". Business Today. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  22. ^ "If cities are to deliver better quality life, need to have business models which are sustainable". Financialexpress. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  23. ^ "Kannur Corporation election 2020". lbtrend. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  24. ^ "Kannur Corporation election 2015". lbtrend. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  25. ^ a b "IUML's C Seenath elected as Kannur Mayor". The Newsminute. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  26. ^ a b Special Currespondent (4 September 2019). "Suma Balakrishnan is new Mayor of Kannur". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  27. ^ "PK Ragesh elected Deputy Mayor of Kannur Corporation". Mathrubhumi. 13 June 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

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