The Tiruchi administration has set a target to distribute 50,000 patta deeds to the homeless and deserving people in the district within two months.
The maximum size of house site for each beneficiary in rural areas will be three cents and two cents in urban areas. The proposed plan includes regularisation of sites, where the beneficiaries live for more than 30 to 40 years, and rectification of errors in the land records committed in 1980.
Collector M. Pradeep Kumar told The Hindu that special officers had been appointed to identify the beneficiaries and the clusters of lands in different parts of the district including the areas that come under the Tiruchi Corporation.
All petitions received at the weekly grievances day meetings, mass contact programmes and other public outreach programmes would be considered.
The long pending petitions, which were withheld on technical grounds, would also be considered.
As per the plan, he said that 12,000 beneficiaries were identified in 14 panchayat unions. The process of checking the clusters and the beneficiaries has been undertaken.
The process of assigning house sites to eligible persons from the government land, which was classified as natham vacant land. It had been proposed to reclassify government poramboke lands as natham vacant land so as to distribute 2,100 eligible beneficiaries.
Mr. Pradeep Kumar said that house sites of 2,500 beneficiaries would be regularised. All possible steps would be taken to distribute pattas to as many as possible. A proposal would be sent to the Commissioner of Land Administration in Chennai shortly to take action on the petitions to distribute pattas in urban areas.
It was expected that about 3,500 persons in Tiruchi city would be benefited if the proposal was accepted.
The Collector said 18 more proposals had been submitted to the State government for facilitating the revenue officials to distribute pattas. The District Revenue Officer, Revenue Divisional Officers and Teshildars had been asked to give priority to achieve the target.
The pattas would be distributed to the beneficiaries by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, who was slated to visit Tiruchi to inaugurate the Integrated Bus Terminus in March or April.
Published - February 11, 2025 06:47 pm IST
