Periyasekkadu (or Peryasekadu) is a neighbourhood of

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Thiruvallur district Thiruvallur District, also spelled as Tiruvallur District, is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The fast developing city of Tiruvallur is the district headquarters. The district has a mixture ...

in the state of

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. Periyasekkadu used to be a part of Madhavaram Municipality in

. In 2011, Madhavaram Municipality was merged with

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. Peryasekadu comes under ward 28 in Zone 3 (Madhavaram) of

. It forms part of the Madavaram Assembly segment within Tiruvallur constituency for elections to the

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Neighbourhoods in Chennai Cities and towns in Tiruvallur district {{Chennai-geo-stub