In a bid to sort out the entire issue in 6 months, the pattas would be issued in two batches, Stalin said and added that 12,29,372 persons had received pattas after his government took charge.
Chennai: Drawing the curtains on a 63-year-old issue, the State Cabinet on Monday decided to give pattas to a total of 86,000 poor and ordinary people now occupying poramboke land, including 29,187 of them living in the non-objectionable regions in the ‘belt areas’ of the four districts surrounding Chennai, Chief Minister M K Stalin said.
After presiding over the Cabinet meeting in Chennai, Stalin announced through a message on his X page, about the government decision to issue pattas to 57,084 squatters in the Corporation areas of Madurai and Tirunelveli, other Municipalities and district headquarters would bring an end to the long drawn problem.
In a bid to sort out the entire issue in 6 months, the pattas would be issued in two batches, Stalin said and added that 12,29,372 persons had received pattas after his government took charge.
Addressing media after the Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat, State Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management K K S S R Ramachandran described the move as a revolution by the Chief Minister, whose attention was drawn to the plight of the encroachers who were unable to made good use of the land they were occupying.
He said the ‘belt area’ law came into force in 1962 and nothing was done about it till 2025. Now that the pattas would be issued in six months the move would be a godsend for the poor people who would benefit by the Cabinet decision.
If more applications were received over and above the 86,000 now identified for the issue of pattas all over the State, the Chief Minister had ordered that they were also considered, he said.
The Minister said that the entire initiative was borne out of the Chief Minister's commitment to ensure that no individual in the State wen without a place a dwelling.
