Demand No. 26, Housing and Urban Development Department Policy Note 2024-2025

What the policy note covers

The Tamil Nadu Government Housing and Urban Development Department Policy Note 2024-2025 explains how the department and the bodies under its administrative control plan and manage housing and urban growth. It responds to increasing urbanisation, migration, population growth, informal occupation, expanding slum areas and pressure on urban infrastructure.

The policy aims to support affordable housing, planned development, improved living conditions, open and recreational spaces, greener cities and less congested transport. It links these priorities to the goal of creating inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and settlements.

Authorities and programmes covered

Demand No. 26 covers the work of several housing, planning, regulatory and transport bodies:

• The Directorate of Town and Country Planning implements town planning law and prepares and implements statutory plans, including regional plans, master plans and detailed development plans.
• The Tamil Nadu Housing Board develops planned plots, houses, flats and house sites with basic facilities for different income groups. It also plans suburban development to meet population needs and reduce urban congestion.
• The Registrar of Cooperative Housing Societies administers cooperative housing societies. These societies provide affordable plots in developed layouts and loans for buying plots, building houses and mortgages.
• The Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority is included as the body dealing with regulation of buildings and plot sales.
• The Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority coordinates agencies and departments providing transport services and works in the Chennai Metropolitan Area.
• The policy note also identifies the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board and the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority as bodies under the department’s administrative control.

Who may be affected

The Housing and Urban Development Department Policy Note 2024-2025 is relevant to property buyers, landowners, developers, housing society members, government employees seeking house building advances, and professionals working with planning or housing authorities. Buyers and owners may encounter the listed bodies when dealing with planned layouts, housing schemes, statutory development plans, cooperative housing finance or real estate regulation.

The policy note provides an overview of government administration, programmes and budget estimates. The supplied text does not identify a particular parcel of land, approve a specific development, alter an individual land classification or transfer property ownership.