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Madurai is a major city in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District. Madurai is the second largest corporation city by area and third largest city by population in Tamil Nadu. Located on the banks of River Vaigai, Madurai has been a major settlement for two millennia and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Madurai is closely associated with the Tamil language, as all three primary congregations of Tamil scholars, the Third Tamil Sangams, were held in the city between 1780 BCE and the 3rd century CE. The recorded history of the city goes back to the 3rd century BCE, being mentioned by Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to India, and Kautilya, a minister of the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta Maurya.
The city has a number of historical monuments, with the Meenakshi Amman Temple and Tirumalai Nayak Palace being the most prominent. Madurai is an important industrial and educational hub in South Tamil Nadu. The city is home to various automobile, rubber, chemical, hand loom textiles and granite manufacturing industries. It has developed as a second-tier city for information technology (IT), and some software companies have opened offices in Madurai. Tamil Nadu government planned satellite town for Madurai near Thoppur. Madurai has important government educational institutes like the Madurai Medical College, Homeopathic Medical College, Madurai Law College, Agricultural College and Research Institute. Madurai city is administered by a municipal corporation established in 1971 as per the Municipal Corporation Act. The city covers an area of 147.99 km2 and had a population of 1470755 in 2011.The city is also the seat of a bench of the Madras High Court, one of only a few courts outside the state capitals of India.
- Madurai District Political Map.Madurai District politics. Madurai District assembly and parliament constituencies.
- 32 MADURAI: 188.Melur AC 189.Madurai East AC 191.Madurai North AC 192.Madurai South AC 193.Madurai Central AC 194.Madurai West AC: 33 THENI: 190.Sholavandan (SC) AC, 197.Usilampatti AC: 34 VIRUDHUNAGAR: 195.Thiruparankundram AC, 196.Thirumangalam AC.
HISTORY AND GROWTH
Madurai is known as Athens of the East and a place of great historical and cultural importance. It was originally known as Kadambavanam or the 'forest of Kadamba' or the Nauclea Kadamba. Madurai is home to several historic temples, monuments, churches and mosques. It is a pilgrimage centre and gateway to south Tamil Nadu having the world famous Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple at its core. In 1801, Madurai came under the direct control of the British East India Company and was annexed to the Madras Presidency. The city evolved as a political and industrial complex through the 19th and 20th centuries to become a district headquarters of a larger Madurai district.
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CONNECTIVITY AND LINKAGES
ROAD NETWORK
The National Highways NH 7, NH 45B, NH 208 and NH 49 pass through Madurai. The state highways passing through the city are SH-32, SH-33 and SH-72, which connect various parts of Madurai district. Madurai is one of the seven circles of Tamil Nadu State Highway network. Madurai is the headquarters of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Madurai) and provides local and intercity bus transport across seven districts namely Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Kanyakumari. Madurai has four major bus stands, namely, M.G.R Bus Stand Integrated Bus Terminus (MIBT), Arappalayam, Palanganatham and Periyar Bus stand.
RAILWAY NETWORK
Madurai Junction is an important railway junction in south Tamil Nadu and constitutes a separate division of the Southern Railway. There are direct trains from Madurai connecting the important cities in Tamil Nadu like Chennai, Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Trichy, Tirunelveli, Karaikudi, Mayiladuthurai, Rameswaram, Thanjavur and Vriddhachalam.Madurai has rail connectivity with important cities and towns in India. The state government has announced Mono rail project for Madurai in 2011, which is in planning stages.
MADURAI AIR NETWORK
Madurai International Airport is located 12 kilometers from the city. It offers domestic flight services to major cities in India and international services to Colombo, Sri Lanka (beginning September 20, 2012). The carriers operating from the airport are Air India, Jet Airways and SpiceJet. The airport handled 5.2 lakhs passengers during Apr 2011 to Mar 2012.
CONNECTIVITY AND LINKAGES MAP OF MADURAI
MADURAI CONSTITUTION
The municipality of Madurai was constituted on 1 November 1866 as per the Town Improvement Act of 1865.The municipality was headed by a chairperson and elections were regularly conducted for the post except during the period 1891 to 1896, when no elections were held due to violent factionalism. In 2011, the jurisdiction of the Madurai Corporation was expanded from 72 wards to 100 wards covering area 147.99 Sq.Km, dividing into four regions-Zone I, II, III, IV. The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: General, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, Town planning and the Computer Wing. All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the supreme executive head. legislative powers are vested in a body of 100 members, one each from the 100 wards. The legislative body is headed by an elected Mayor assisted by a Deputy Mayor.
MUNICIPAL AREA
Madurai Corporation is the second largest Municipal Corporation in the state of Tamil Nadu. Madurai was constituted as a municipality as per the Town Improvement Act of 1865 on 1st November 1866. It was upgraded as a Corporation on 1st May, 1971 in view of rapid increase in population and extension of administrative boundaries.
The jurisdiction of Madurai Corporation has been extended on 28th September 2010, to include the areas of the city Corporation, 3 Municipalities, 3 Town Panchayats and 11 Village Panchayats located around the Madurai Corporation. Consequent to this extension, the total area of the Corporation has increased considerably from 51.82 Sq.KM to 147.997 Sq.Km and the numbers of the wards have increased from 72 to 100. The extended Municipal Corporation had a population of 14, 70,755 persons as per 2011 census.
ZONE-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF MMC
DETAILS | ZONE 1 | ZONE 2 | ZONE 3 | ZONE 4 | TOTAL |
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WARDS (NOS.) | 23 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 100 |
WARD LIST | 1 TO 23 | 24 TO 49 | 50 TO 74 | 75 TO 100 | 1 TO 100 |
AREA (SQ. KM) | 37.35 | 46.94 | 27.01 | 36.7 | 148 |
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It Takes 270 to Win
The winner of the presidential election must win the majority of the electoral votes — that is at least 270 out of the 538 available.
Because most states allocate their electoral votes on an “winner-take-all” basis — the exceptions being Maine and Nebraska, which split their electoral votes by congressional district — the candidate who wins enough states to reach 270 electoral votes becomes president.
Winning the national popular vote doesn’t matter, as we saw most recently in the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections where the winner of the popular vote actually lost the election. That’s led to many efforts to reform the Electoral College over the years.
There is actually one way to win the presidency without getting 270 electoral votes. If the election results in a 269 to 269 electoral vote tie, then the House of Representatives convenes to choose the president.
The 2020 Map Begins with Florida
In 2016, Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by roughly three million people but won 304 electoral votes and the presidency. Based on recent polling, his chances of winning the popular vote in 2020 are at least as challenging as they were in 2016.
That suggests his best hope for re-election might be to once again assemble an Electoral College majority without winning the popular vote.
Any review of the various 2020 Electoral College combinations should begin with Florida, a state key to all presidential fortunes since the 2000 presidential election.
If Trump were to win Florida again, Democrats would need to recapture three Midwestern states in the Rust Belt — or find substitutes — to win the presidency. If Democrats win Florida, any one of the three Rust Belt states would secure the presidency, unless Trump can pick off another blue state that Democrats won in 2016.
Rust Belt vs. Sun Belt?
The key to President Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election was that he carried three “Rust Belt” states that many expected Democrats to win: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton was so sure of her victory in these states that she didn’t even campaign in Wisconsin.
Trump won these three states by less than a combined 80,000 votes, or just .06% of the 137 million votes cast. But that was still enough to get Trump to the 270 to win.
It’s obvious by playing with the interactive electoral map that if Democrats can flip all three states back to their column in 2020, then they can win the election (assuming they hold all of the other states Hillary Clinton won in 2016.)
But if Democrats lose all three states again, then they would need another path to the presidency. Some say Democrats could pursue a “Sun Belt” strategy and perhaps win Florida plus North Carolina, Arizona, Texas or Georgia. All of those states went to Trump in 2016, but there are some indications from early polling that at least some might be among the battleground states in play in 2020.
A Changing Electoral Map
In recent modern elections, there have been a dozen or more truly competitive battlegrounds which could result in many various paths to 270 electoral votes.
That’s changed in recent years as polarization has increased, resulting in red and blue strongholds with bigger victory margins. For instance, despite the narrow popular vote margin in 2016, more than two dozen states were decided by margins of 15 percentage points or more. In 1988, when the popular vote margin was seven percentage points, there were just 17 states which were won by such big margins.
One way of looking at how the electoral map has changed in recent years is to evaluate which states are most likely to provide the electoral votes needed to secure 270.
During the 2008 and 2012 elections won by Barack Obama, Virginia and Colorado were the tipping point states. But because of Democratic gains among college-educated voters in these states, both have moved sharply toward the Democrats in recent years.
In contrast, even though Ohio was the most important battleground in the 2004 election, underlying trends have moved it towards the Republicans in recent elections.
In 2020, many political analysts think that Wisconsin, where Democrats will hold their national convention in 2020, could prove to be the tipping point state in a close election.
The 2018 Midterms Were a Warning for Trump
For President Trump, the best path for re-election is the exact same one that handed him the presidency in 2016.
But Trump got a major warning sign during the 2018 midterm elections when the three all-important Rust Belt states delivered big victories to Democrats.
Democrats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan swept the races for Senate and governor, and picked up valuable House seats, defeating Trump-backed Republicans at all levels.
Whether this was a fleeting backlash or a preview of the 2020 electoral map remains to be seen, but the outcome in those key states will be important to watch as the campaign progresses.
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