G.O.(Ms.) No.70, Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam, 2024
The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (SGS.1) Department issued G.O.(Ms.) No.70 on 15 March 2024, granting administrative sanction and approving guidelines for the Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam rural housing scheme for 2024-2025. It sanctions Rs.3,100 crore for one lakh new houses and sets eligibility, land ownership, allocation and beneficiary selection requirements.
What the scheme does
The Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam scheme supports the replacement of eligible rural huts with permanent concrete houses. The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (SGS.1) Department, through G.O.(Ms.) No.70 dated 15 March 2024, approved construction of one lakh houses during 2024-2025 as the first phase of a plan to construct eight lakh houses over six years.
The government sanctioned Rs.3,100 crore, calculated at Rs.3.10 lakh for each house. The stated unit cost is Rs.3.50 lakh after convergence with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Swachh Bharath Mission, Gramin. The convergence includes 90 person days for house construction, another 10 person days for an Individual Household Latrine, and Rs.12,000 for the latrine. Rupees five crore is provided from scheme funds for administrative expenses.
Who may qualify
Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam primarily covers households continuing to live in huts and found eligible through the Kalaignar Veedu Vazhangum Thittam resurvey. Where that list is insufficient, households in the New Hut Survey and Housing for All survey databases may be considered.
Key conditions include:
- The household must have a patta or ownership document for the house site.
- Construction must take place at the existing site or on land for which the household has a patta or ownership document.
- A hut on poramboke land cannot be replaced unless the land is unobjectionable and the Revenue Department regularises the encroachment.
- Tenanted or commercial huts, huts used for animals, certain partly permanent roofed huts, and households owning a permanent house elsewhere are excluded.
- Specified government employees, elected representatives and their spouses are excluded.
Allocation and selection
The Director of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj decides district allocations using the housing surveys. The statewide allocation ratio is 40:60 for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households and other households. Five per cent of each district allocation is reserved for differently abled persons.
A Village Panchayat level committee must inspect surveyed huts and verify current eligibility. Eligible households omitted from the surveys may also be considered. The list must receive Grama Sabha approval, followed by District Collector approval and entry into the Housing for All database. Such omitted eligible households become eligible for sanction in the coming year.
Allotment is made in a woman’s name where the patta is in her name. Where the patta is in a man’s name, allotment is jointly made to the wife and husband. Priority applies to specified vulnerable groups, including widows, women headed families, transgender persons, persons affected by listed illnesses and victims of natural calamities.
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Common questions
Can I receive a house if my hut is on poramboke land?
Only if the poramboke land is unobjectionable and the Revenue Department regularises the encroachment. Otherwise, the hut cannot be replaced under Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam.
Do I need a patta to qualify for Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam?
Yes. The household must have a patta or ownership document for the house site, and construction must be on that site or other land covered by such a document.
Can a household omitted from the housing surveys still apply?
Yes, an otherwise eligible household may be verified by the Village Panchayat level committee. After Grama Sabha and District Collector approval, it is entered in the Housing for All database and becomes eligible for sanction in the coming year.
Whose name will appear in the house allotment?
If the patta is in a woman’s name, the house is allotted in her name. If it is in a man’s name, allotment is jointly made to the wife and husband, or to the male family member if no woman member is available.
