CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday said that free pattas had been handed over to 6.52 lakh poor people ever since chief minister MK Stalin took charge in 2021. The revenue department also handed over 2.75 crore e-certificates in the last three years under 26 heads, including, community, income, nativity, first graduate, and inter-caste marriage in the corresponding period.
Highlighting the achievements in the rural development and panchayat raj department in the last three years, an official release said the DMK govt allocated Rs 5,337 crore towards old age pension, which is Rs 1,250 crore higher than the previous AIADMK regime. The state govt increased the social security pension for old age people to Rs 1,200 from Rs 1,000, and Rs 1,500 from Rs 1,000 for the differently abled. “A total of 34.9 lakh old age pensioners benefit from the govt initiative,” the release said.
The state government extended Rs 2,477 crore from the state disaster relief fund towards relief and restoration measures in the wake of cyclone Michaung in Chennai and neighbouring districts and to the southern districts affected by heavy rains and floods in December last year.
A scheme launched in 2022 enabled transfer of 41.81 lakh pattas through online. A web-based system for online applications and processing was launched last year for measurement and identification of boundaries of lands resolving the land. “Of the 186 towns in the state, the town survey land records (TSLR) of 179 have become online and the rest are also being taken up,” the release said.
