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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Friday (February 6, 2026) released the Tamil Nadu Urban Greening Policy 2026, aiming to physique climate-resilient, liveable, and sustainable cities.
According to an authoritative release, the State authorities has been pursuing a mission-mode, Statewide greening effort done the Green Tamil Nadu Mission, with the nonsubjective of progressively enhancing wood and histrion screen towards 33%, improving clime resilience, and strengthening ecological security.
Some of the greening efforts by the State authorities see the planting of implicit 12.05 crore seedlings, enlargement of agroforestry implicit much than 2.24 lakh acres, mangrove plantation and restoration, palmyrah dibbling astatine scale, constitution of 100 colony woodlots (Maragathapooncholai) crossed 38 districts, instauration of 1,000 micro forests (Kurunkadugal) wrong manufacture premises, and notification of 100 caller reserve forests, integrating greening with livelihoods, clime action, and sustainable development.
The argumentation provides a broad and forward-looking model for integrating trees, municipality forests, parks, wetlands, and blue-green infrastructure into municipality readying and improvement crossed the State. It addresses challenges arising from accelerated urbanisation, municipality vigor land effects, declining aerial quality, nonaccomplishment of municipality biodiversity, and shrinking greenish spaces, portion aligning with the State’s clime alteration vision, clime enactment plans, and ongoing greening initiatives.
According to the policy, a State-level coordination committee volition beryllium formed to guarantee effectual convergence crossed departments. The Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department volition acceptable up a dedicated municipality wood helping to beforehand greening initiatives successful municipality areas.
City-level municipality biodiversity plans and municipality greening micro-plans volition beryllium prepared, geospatial mapping and c accounting volition beryllium undertaken, and monitoring dashboards volition beryllium acceptable up for municipality greening initiatives. All departments and agencies volition allocate a proportionate stock of projects towards greening and scenery restoration. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) shall research the anticipation of levying a greenish interest for municipality greening activities.
Plan for ULBs
Incentives are projected to beryllium provided to institutions and individuals for the accomplishment of defined ‘Urban Greening Factors’. Every ULB shall endeavour to support a minimum of 15% of its full municipality country nether greenish cover. ULBs volition besides strive to follow the 3-30-300 Urban Green Livability Guideline of the Nature-based Solutions Institute, Sweden.
ULBs shall besides strive to make the City Biodiversity Index, besides known arsenic the Singapore Index. The argumentation volition promote the adoption of municipality and determination improvement program formulation and implementation guidelines for per capita greenish abstraction accessibility.
Each ULB shall found and support municipality greenish nurseries to beforehand lone autochthonal histrion taxon done a method protocol for taxon enactment and planting initiatives. The argumentation encourages assemblage information and stewardship successful municipality greening initiatives and envisages extended monitoring of these initiatives done integer tracking and dashboards, on with the work of yearly municipality greenish reports by ULBs.
Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam and Additional Chief Secretary (Environment, Climate Change and Forests) Supriya Sahu were among those contiguous astatine the Secretariat erstwhile the Chief Minister released the policy.
