G.O. (Ms.) No. 470, Withdrawal of Tirunelveli Corporation Land, 2025
The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department issued G.O. (Ms.) No. 470 on 15 December 2025, notifying the Governor of Tamil Nadu's withdrawal of 0.05.75 hectare in Vijayaragava Mudhaliyar Chathiram Village from the control of Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation. Published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette on 16 December 2025, the withdrawal supports the grant of house site pattas under a one-time regularisation scheme and takes effect from the date of Gazette publication.
What the notification does
The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department notification under G.O. (Ms.) No. 470, dated 15 December 2025, removes a specified portion of land from the control of Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation. The Governor of Tamil Nadu exercised the power given under the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act, 1998.
The notification states that the withdrawal is connected with granting house site pattas under a one-time regularisation scheme. It withdraws municipal control over the scheduled land, but the operative text does not itself identify individual patta recipients.
Land covered
The scheduled land is located within:
- District and municipal corporation: Tirunelveli
- Taluk: Palayamkottai
- Village: Vijayaragava Mudhaliyar Chathiram, also called V.M. Chathiram
- Ward: BL
- Block: 37
- Town Survey Number before subdivision: 14
- Survey Number after subdivision: 14/1
- Classification: Sarkar Poramboke Vivasayathurai Aluvalagam
- Total extent of Survey Number 14/1: 1.85.50 hectares
- Extent withdrawn from corporation control: 0.05.75 hectare
The schedule allows for the stated extent to be a little more or less.
Boundaries of the withdrawn portion
The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department notification identifies the boundaries by adjoining survey numbers:
- East: Ward BL, Block 37, Town Survey Number 124
- West: Ward BL, Block 37, Town Survey Number 01
- North: Ward BL, Block 37, Town Survey Numbers 13 to 23
- South: Ward BL, Block 37, Town Survey Number 15, subdivisions 14/2 to 14/18, classified as Ryotwari manai
Who may be affected
Owners, occupiers, applicants for house site pattas and professionals dealing with land in Ward BL, Block 37 of V.M. Chathiram should check whether the property falls within the scheduled 0.05.75 hectare. The notification changes which authority controls that land. It takes effect from 16 December 2025, the date on which it was published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
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Common questions
Does G.O. (Ms.) No. 470 grant me a house site patta?
The notification says the withdrawal is for granting house site pattas under a one-time regularisation scheme. Its operative provision withdraws the scheduled land from Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation control and does not name individual patta recipients.
How much land was removed from Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation control?
The extent withdrawn is 0.05.75 hectare from Survey Number 14/1, whose total extent is listed as 1.85.50 hectares.
When did the withdrawal take effect?
The withdrawal took effect on 16 December 2025, the date the notification was published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
Where is the affected land located?
It is in Ward BL, Block 37, Vijayaragava Mudhaliyar Chathiram Village, Palayamkottai Taluk, within Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation and Tirunelveli District.
