Coimbatore Corporation which was last expanded in 2011 by incorporating 11 local bodies into it will absorb another 13 local bodies and expand its total size from the current 257.04 sq.km to 415.40 sq.km.

Tamil Nadu Government has issued G.O. to expand the limits of 16 corporations including Coimbatore, Dindigul, Karur, Madurai, Trichy, Tiruppur, Kumbakonam, Tanjore, Thoothukudi, Greater Chennai Corporation etc.

In Coimbatore, the government has planned to add 9 Village Panchayats such as Neelambur, Mylampatti, Chinniampalayam, Kurudampalayam, Ashokapuram, Somayampalayam, Malumichampatti, Seerappalayam & Keeranatham; 4 Town Panchayats such as Perur, Vedapatti, Irugur, and Vellalor, and 1 municipality that's Madukkarai to the Corporation. Once the ward limits are revised, elections will be held for the new added wards.

Sources mention that the rise in population in these local bodies, the residential activities and the commercial & industrial growth there have been the major factors for their proposed inclusion into Coimbatore Corporation.