Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, No. 47, Part VI, Section 1 (47 VI 1 v4)

What the Gazette contains

The Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated 20 November 2019 contains two separate notifications issued by heads of departments. One concerns the final closure of an industrial co-operative society. The other controlled the movement and purchase of registered and unregistered sugarcane during the 2019-2020 crushing season.

Closure of the industrial co-operative society

Notification No. VI(1)/522/2019 was issued by the Industries Commissioner and Director of Industries and Commerce and Registrar of Industrial Co-operatives. It records action taken through Proceedings No. LF.977/ICA/1998 dated 30 October 2019.

Key points are:

• The registration of the Thiyagadurugam Tailoring Workers Industrial Co-operative Society Limited, Industrial Number 568, was cancelled.
• The society was already under liquidation.
• Its affairs were finally closed with effect from 30 October 2019.
• The decision followed a final closure proposal dated 10 October 2019 from the Assistant Director of Industries and Commerce (Industrial Co-operatives), District Industries Centre, Villupuram, acting as Official Liquidator.

Sugarcane movement controls

Notification No. VI(1)/523/2019 was issued by the Commissioner of Sugar and Cane Commissioner, Tamil Nadu. It prohibited movement of registered or unregistered sugarcane from the demarcated area of any co-operative, public sector or private sector sugar mill without a prior diversion order from that office.

The notification also provided that:

• Sugar mills could purchase unregistered cane from their own reserved cane areas to address shortages and achieve full factory capacity utilisation.
• A mill that did not need unregistered cane could issue a No Objection Certificate within 14 days after receiving a grower's application.
• The certificate enabled the grower to sell unregistered cane to another needy sugar mill or elsewhere outside the notified area, but within Tamil Nadu.
• If a mill failed to issue the certificate after 14 days for another reason, the grower could report the matter to the Commissioner of Sugar and Cane Commissioner with proper particulars.
• The regulation applied from publication in the Gazette until 30 September 2020.

Relevance to property owners and buyers

Notification Nos. VI(1)/522/2019 and VI(1)/523/2019 do not contain provisions about land title, sale deeds, planning approval, land classification or property registration. Their direct relevance is limited to the closed co-operative society, sugar mills and sugarcane growers covered by the notifications.