Will CM Stalin Restart His Election Campaign on August 9 from Chengalpattu?

Chennai, July 31 (NationPress) Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is set to recommence his election campaign on August 9 in the Chengalpattu district. The Chief Minister had recently been hospitalized due to complaints of dizziness, but he has since been discharged and is now recuperating at home.

During his visit to Pallavaram, he plans to address a public gathering and distribute free house-site pattas to 20,000 families, as confirmed by officials.

On Thursday, the Chief Minister will make his way to the Secretariat to unveil a series of welfare initiatives across four departments, including a comprehensive transgender policy aimed at fostering inclusivity and social justice. This policy is expected to address community rights, welfare measures, and employment opportunities, and to offer legal protections against discrimination.

As part of his mission on August 9, CM Stalin will also inaugurate a newly constructed district headquarters hospital in Tambaram, which was built at a cost of Rs 110 crore. An integrated dental unit valued at Rs 7.19 crore and a new diagnostic laboratory will also be inaugurated on the hospital grounds, according to officials.

The ruling DMK government had announced a one-time relaxation in February regarding the issuance of free house-site pattas in Chennai and neighboring districts - Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, and Chengalpattu - through a cabinet resolution. This relaxation applies to areas situated up to 16 km from district headquarters and municipal corporations, and 8 km from municipalities and town panchayats.

The special regularization scheme aims to formalize long-standing residential encroachments on ‘unobjectionable’ government poramboke lands that have existed for over 10 years in Chennai and the neighboring districts, and for more than 5 years elsewhere in the state. It also encompasses several categories of ‘objectionable’ poramboke lands under local authority jurisdiction, including vandipathai (cart tracks), kalam (fields), mayanam (burial grounds), and thoppu (groves).

Beneficiaries with an annual family income not exceeding Rs three lakh are eligible for free pattas. The maximum land allocation varies: up to one cent or the actual area encroached (whichever is lower) in Chennai, Tambaram, and Avadi corporations; up to two cents in other corporations, municipalities, and town panchayats; and up to three cents in rural regions.

A preliminary enumeration has identified 86,271 families as eligible for free pattas. Of these, 29,187 families are in Chennai and its neighboring districts, while the remaining 57,084 families reside in other urban areas of the state, excluding The Nilgiris and other hill regions, officials indicated.