Category talk:Neighbourhoods in Tambaram

Consistency, clarity and certainty in defining Neighbourhoods.

The Neighbourhoods are inconsistent and outdated, such as Anakaputhur, Pallavaram, Pammal, Sembakkam, Chitlapakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, Peerkankaranai and Thiruneermalai are based on the boundaries local government bodies, which are defunct as of 3st November 2021. In addition to being defunct, it also has another issue as these bodies belong to different classes—Municipality and Town Panchayat.
I think the Neighbourhoods in Tambaram should be treated as Adjacent communities to ensure consistency, clarity and certainty. Template:Adjacent communities recommends using same-level jurisdictions or equivalent in the directional fields as in the centre. Some of the options to be considered:

Wards: The sub-division of the Urban Local Government Boundaries in India are Wards. The Ward-wise census data is published in public domain. However, Wards are electoral districts and the census data is called for ward primarily for reservation of seats for marginalized communities. As wards are delineated to have similar population, it often includes various unincorporated communities.

Division: Each Division (also known as Revenue Division) is exclusively located within the administrative division of district, not necessarily within the Local Government Boundary of— City, Town or Village. Additionally, Revenue divisions are too large in size to meaningfully contribute to the notion of Neighbourhoods in Tambaram. For Instance, there is only one revenue division in City of Tambaram— Tambaram division, which includes Vandalur taluk located outside the City of Tambaram.

Taluk is a sub-division of the Revenue Division. Similar to revenue division, each Taluk is is exclusively located within the administrative division of district, not necessarily within the Local Government Boundary of— City, Town or Village. Similar to revenue division, Taluk might be also too large in size to meaningfully contribute to the notion of Neighbourhoods in Tambaram. As City of Tambaram has only two Taluks—Tambaram taluk and Pallavaram taluk.

Village: Revenue Village is the smallest unit of a Taluk. Revenue Village (administrative division) is distinct from the Village Panchayat (local government boundary). The Village Panchayat becomes defunct upon annexation into Urban Local Government such as City Municipal Corporation. But, Revenue Village continues to exist and is used by Government for various purposes.

The urban planning agency, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority(CMDA) uses these villages when developing the Land Use Master plan. For instance, the last masterplan was generated before City of Tambaram was incorporated and the land-use map for Tambaram municipality was issued separately for each of its constituent villages— Irumbuliyur, Kadapperi, Pulikoradu, Selaiyur and Tambaram.

The Government relies on the Revenue Village when delineating new administrative divisions. For instance this order of bifurcation of Kancheepuram district into Kanchipuram district and Chengalpattu district.

Recommendation
Considering this, I prefer revenue village to be used as the jurisdiction for identifying and defining the boundaries of Neighbourhoods in Tambaram. The revenue villages in the City of Tambaram can be identified using the CMDA website. However, note that 2026 Master plan was developed before incorporation of the Tambaram as City. Therefore, the revenue villages in the City of Tambaram has to be identified through the proceeding, now defunct, urban local government bodies, which are as follows:

Local Body Type: Municipality. Local Body Names: Anakaputhur, Pallavaram, Pammal, Sembakkam and Tambaram.

Local Body Type: Town Panchayat. Local Body Names: Chitlapakkam, Madambakkam, Perungalathur, Peerkankaranai and Thiruneermalai

These local body types and names can be used to identify all the revenue villages within the City of Tambaram through CMDA website. This can help ensure that Neighbourhoods aren't defined based on now defunct local bodies. Wiki6995 (talk) 13:15, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Gjs238, Raghavan2010 and 2861969nyc: Please consider this while working on Tambaram-related pages. Wiki6995 (talk) 13:18, 6 October 2023 (UTC)