Five new municipalities including Bopal-Ghuma, Sachin, Kapodara declared

Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat

Ahead of the big season of local body elections this year, there has been an addition of five new municipalities in Gujarat.

Municipality status is granted to those villages that have crossed population mark of 25,000.

According to a new notification, five gram panchayats have been granted ‘municipality’ status.

Ahmedabad’s Bopal-Ghuma villages have been merged and they have been granted a single municipality body.

Similarly Surat’s Sachin and Kapodara and Bharuch’s Gankhol and Zadeshwar have also been promoted to municipality status.

In all these new municipalities, first six month governance will be delivered by administrator. Later they will witness election.

With this, the government hasalso announced new delimitation of 53 municipalities.

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