Government Offices in Salem
The town of Salem was constituted as a municipality 1866, and then promoted to special-grade during 1965-66 and as a municipal corporation from April 1994. The Salem municipal corporation is divided into 60 wards and there is an elected councillor for each of those wards. The area of functions of the municipal corporation are devolved into six departments: Public health, city planning, revenue, information technology(IT), engineering, personnel/general administration.
All these departments are under the control of a Municipal Commissioner who is the executive head of the organ. The legislative powers are vested in a body of 60 members, one member each representing each of the ward.The legislative body is headed by an elected Chairperson assisted by a Deputy Chairperson.Salem is composed of following constituent territories: Salem West, Salem North and Salem South assembly constituencies that were newly after the constituency delimitations 2008.Salem sends three elected members to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.
Administrative Offices in Salem
Law and order in the city in maintained by the Salem sub division of the Tamil Nadu Police supervised by an official at the designation of Deputy Superintendent. There are about five police stations in the town of Salem, with one of them being an all women police station. Apart from regular policing there are special departments too like prohibition enforcement, social justice, human rights,maintaining district crime records and special branch that operate at the district level police division headed by a Superintendent of Police. Given below is a list of various government offices in Salem:
Salem City Municipal Corporation
Swarnabigai Agraharam, Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636001
Conatct No- 0427 2212844
Textiles Committee
Trichy, Main Road, Gugai, Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636006
Contact No- 0427 2467740
Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Salem Division- Head Office
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636007
Contact No- 0427 2314391
Food Corporation of India
Gokulraj Transport
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636006
Contact No- 0427 2469177
Deputy Inspector General of Police’s Office
Contact No- 0427 2317282
Income Tax office
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636007
Contact No- 0427 2313181
Salem Corporation Hasthampatti Zonal Office
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636007
Contact No- 0427 2317222
District Collector’s Office
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636001
Salem District Court
Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636008
Working hours of all the government offices are from 9:00 am- 4:00 pm.For any administrative work or enquiry, one can visit the respective above mentioned offices.