Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, No. 1, Part II, Section 2, 1 January 2020

What the Gazette covers

The Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, No. 1, Part II, Section 2, published by the Government of Tamil Nadu on 1 January 2020, brings together notifications from several Secretariat departments. Most of the supplied text concerns a criminal investigation and industrial disputes rather than land ownership or property transactions.

The contents page also lists an amendment by the Housing and Urban Development Department to the Guidelines for the Exemption of Buildings, 2017. However, the supplied source does not include the text of that amendment, so its conditions and effect on any particular building cannot be determined from this material.

Home Department notification

The Home Department issued G.O. Ms. No. 702, Home (POL.VII), dated 14 December 2019. Key provisions are:

• The Governor of Tamil Nadu consented to extending the powers and jurisdiction of members of the Delhi Special Police Establishment throughout Tamil Nadu for a specified investigation.
• The investigation concerns Greater Chennai Central Crime Branch-I Crime No. 327 of 2019.
• The case was registered under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation for further investigation.

Labour and Employment Department notifications

The Labour and Employment Department issued several notifications referring disputes for adjudication. G.O. Ms. No. 233, Labour and Employment (A2), dated 13 December 2019, concerns S.N.Y. Autotech Private Limited at Irungattukottai.

• A dispute involving the lockout of 19 workers had been referred to the Labour Court, Kancheepuram.
• The Government noted that a strike had continued for more than one year and that conciliation had not resolved the issues.
• The continuance of the strike was prohibited with immediate effect while adjudication remained pending.

Other Labour and Employment Department notifications refer disputes involving workers, town panchayat administrations and Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation managements to the Industrial Tribunal or Labour Courts. The disputes include worker classification and benefits, regularisation of contract sanitation workers, disciplinary penalties, withheld increments and pension related claims.

Relevance to property owners and buyers

The only property related item identified in the supplied text is the listed amendment to the Guidelines for the Exemption of Buildings, 2017. Because the amendment text is not supplied, property owners, buyers and professionals cannot use this extract alone to establish whether a building qualifies for an exemption or whether approval requirements changed.