The Gujarat Cabinet approved the conversion of nine municipalities into municipal corporations, taking the total number of civic bodies in the State to 17.
The approval for the formation of nine new municipal corporations — Navsari, Gandhidham, Morbi, Vapi, Anand, Nadiad, Mehsana, Porbandar and Surendranagar — was granted in a Cabinet meeting.
Gujarat currently has eight municipal corporations: Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar.
