Theni district regards the hierarchy of administrative arrangement, there are 8 Blocks, 6 Municipalities, 22 Town panchayats and 130 Village panchayats in the district.

Panchayat Union Blocks

The 130 village panchayats are under the control of the concerned Panchayat Union Blocks. The following 8 Panchayat Union Blocks in Theni district.

1. Theni
2. Aundipatti
3. Periyakulam
4. Kadamalai Mayiladumparai
5. Bodinayakanur
6. Chinnamanur
7. Uthamapalayam
8. Cumbum

Municipality

The urban local bodies form the direct interface between the people in the urban areas and the administration. The overall administration of 6 Municipal Corporations, 152 Municipalities is the responsibility of this Department. Tamilnadu, being the most urbanised State in the Country, the Department has multifarious functions in terms of providing basic infrastructure, conduct of elections to these local bodies and administering. The local bodies have 15 obligatory functions including Public Health, drinking water etc., The following 6 municipalities in Theni district.

1. Theni-Allinagaram
2. Periyakulam
3. Cumbum
4. Bodinayakanur
5. Chinnamanur
6. Gudalur

Town Panchayat

Tamilnadu is the first State to have introduced a classification in the status of local bodies as ‘Town Panchayat’, which was planned as a transitional body between Rural and Urban Local Bodies. Among the Local Bodies, the Town Panchayats were conferred with individual administrative powers and an enhanced staff pattern and these Town Panchayats with unique functional characters have been in existence for over a century. The Town Panchayats were provided with well devised accounting and auditing procedures and the service delivery to the public has been better. The Town Panchayats normally are places of importance such as Division / Taluk headquarters, Tourist Spots, Pilgrim Centers and Commercial/Industrial towns. This has necessitated special attention to the civic needs of the Town Panchayats. The following 22 Town Panchayat in Theni district.

1. Aundipatti
2. B.Meenakshipuram
3. Boothipuram
4. Devathanapatti
5. Genguvarpatti
6. Hanumanthanpatti
7. Highwavys
8. Kamayagoundanpatti
9. Kombai
10. Kutchanur
11. Markayankottai
12. Melachokkanathapuram
13. Odaipatti
14. Palanichettipatti
15. Pannaipuram
16. Pudupatti
17. Tamaraikulam
18. Thenkarai
19. Thevaram
20. Uthamapalayam
21. Vadugapatti
22. Veerapandi