CHENNAI: The ward reclassification committee, chaired by the Tamil Nadu State Election Commissioner (TNSEC), is examining the possibility of expanding the Greater Chennai Corporation’s administrative boundaries by bifurcating large wards within the existing city limits and by including select areas of local bodies along the Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) corridor up to Thiruporur.

Sources affirmed that any new wards will be created only from within the present corporation limits and will not be carved out of neighbouring corporations such as Tambaram or Avadi.

The State government has already announced that the number of wards in the Chennai corporation will be increased from the current 200 to 300. The creation of new wards or local bodies, their boundaries, the number of wards and the s

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