9 muni corporations formed after 14 yrs

Notification for new municipal corporations to be issued in a day or two; change will provide more facilities to citizens

The Gujarat Cabinet on Wednesday approved the elevation of nine municipalities into municipal corporations, taking the total number of municipal corporations in the state to 17. New municipal corporations have been formed after 14 years. The Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation was the last one to be formed by the government in 2010.

The approval for the formation of nine new municipal corporations – Navsari, Gandhidham, Morbi, Vapi, Anand, Nadiad, Mehsana, Porbandar and Surendranagar – was granted in a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.

Gujarat currently has eight municipal corporations – Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar.

"A notification will be issued in a day or two. After a gap of 14 years, new municipal corporations will be formed in Gujarat. With this decision, the number of such civic bodies will reach 17," health minister and state government spokesperson Rushikesh Patel told reporters in Gandhinagar.