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The local administration under the department consists of 15 municipal corporations, 121 municipalities and 528 town panchayats. [2] [3] Greater Chennai Corporation, established in 1688, is the second oldest in the world and Tamil Nadu was the first state to establish town panchayats as a new administrative unit.
The Department of Water Resources is one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu. The department was split from the Public works department in June 2021 and is responsible for the management and conservation of water bodies in the state.
Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, known shortly as CMWSSB, is a statutory board of Government of Tamil Nadu which provides water supply and sewage treatment to the city of Chennai and its metropolitan region. Chennai is one of the metros in India that are dependent mostly on ground water supply.
The department was reconstituted by the Tamil Nadu Board of Revenue Act, 1894. [2] It was adopted by the Madras State post Indian Independence as a part of the Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949. [3] It was renamed in 1980 by the Tamil Nadu Board of Revenue Abolition Act, 1980. [4]
The Government of Tamil Nadu constituted, the Tamilnadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board as a non-statutory body during 1969. Statutory status was given to the Board with effect from 14.4.1971 by an enactment passed by the Tamil Nadu State Legislature.
The government of Tamil Nadu, the administrative body responsible for the governance of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, comprises 43 departments. The Governor of Tamil Nadu is the constitutional head of state while the Chief Minister heads the executive branch acting along with the council of ministers. The ministers are responsible for the ...
The department is responsible for planning, designing, construction and maintenance of Government buildings across the state. It is also responsible for the execution of local area development works sanctioned under MLAs and MP funds, reconstruction works during calamities and issuance of rent certificate for private buildings used by Government departments.
The department generates the highest tax revenue for the state government. [1] The core function of the department is two pronged: implementation of taxes on various commodities and services as laid out by various tax laws enacted by Government of India and the state government and to maximize the collection of taxes. [2]