The 18th Cabinet meeting chaired by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday decided to issue land titles to 86,000 people in six months. This is for residents who have been occupying a 32-km belt across four districts.
They have been struggling for a long time to obtain land titles and have lacked access to necessary facilities. This issue has been going on since 1962, said a release quoting Revenue and Disaster Management Minister KKSSR Ramachandran.
The Belt Area Act came into force in 1962, he said.
The Chief Minister, in a social media post after the meeting, said, “A solution to the 63-year-old problem of the poor and ordinary people. 29,187 people living on unobjectionable alienated lands in the ‘belt areas’ of Chennai and surrounding districts, We have approved today Cabinet Meeting to issue land titles to a total of 86 thousand poor and ordinary people, 57,084 people, in corporations, municipalities and district capital areas including Madurai and Nellai. Since your government took office, 12,29,372 pattas have been issued so far.”
