About Municipality
          Rajapalayam is one of the cities that expose the Indian culture clearly. It is an important town in Virudunagar district and is the Taluk (also spelt as Taluka) headquarters of Rajapalayam Taluk. It is situated 85-km southwest of Medurai. Five roads are radiating from Rajapalayam on the north of Madurai on the south of Tenkasi and Sankarankovil on the east of Chattarapatti and on to the west to mountains and Ayyanar falls. Rajapalayam is one of the important trade centre for several adjoining villages due to its strategic location on the NH208  connecting Quilon in   Kerala to Tirumangalam near Madurai.
  Rajapalayam town has been constituted as

Grade III municipality on 1.10.1941,

Grade II  municipality on 1.04.1955,

Grade I   municipality  on 1.04.1975

Selection grade municipality on 14.12.1989 and

Special Grade municipality from 02.12.2008

Location of Municipal Office

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