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The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department indispensable guarantee timely completion of the Union authorities funded projects and hole and execute projects nether the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) wrong stipulated timelines, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay said present connected Monday (June 8, 2026).
Mr. Vijay who chaired a reappraisal gathering connected the implementation of schemes nether the MAWS section said the section indispensable guarantee sustainable and integrated municipality improvement done coordination with assorted authorities agencies to execute municipality infrastructure improvement plan, said a property release. Officials informed the Chief Minister that the UCF, which was launched successful April this year, could facilitate infrastructure facilities worthy astir ₹30,000 crore successful Tamil Nadu.
He besides directed officials to instrumentality measures to supply uninterrupted 24x7 drinking h2o proviso successful each 25 municipal corporations and amended h2o infrastructure successful municipalities and municipality panchayats to guarantee a minimum of 3 hours of h2o proviso daily.
The Chief Minister besides called for restoration of the Cooum stream and Buckingham canal on with the ongoing Adyar River Restoration project. By 2031, greenish infrastructure and unfastened nationalist spaces are to beryllium expanded crossed each municipality section bodies. Measures indispensable beryllium initiated to make parks and recreational facilities successful large cities similar Chennai, Madurai and TIruchi.
Mr. Vijay besides stressed the request to works 5 crore saplings successful municipality areas implicit the adjacent 5 years to summation municipality greenish cover, fortify biodiversity and amended clime resilience. He besides instructed officials to found carnal commencement power centres successful each civic and section bodies by 2031.
Officials besides presented the projected Chief Minister’s Integrated Urban Transformation Mission 2026-2031, which seeks to make municipality infrastructure successful Tamil Nadu. The programme is estimated to necessitate investments of a minimum of ₹1.5 lakh crore implicit 5 years, to beryllium mobilised done Union and State authorities schemes and assorted different backing sources.
They besides briefed astir the advancement of assorted Union authorities schemes, including AMRUT, AMRUT 2.0, Jal Jeevan Mission and JJM 2.0 and State authorities schemes, including Singara Chennai 2.0. M. Saikumar, Chief Secretary; Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Additional Chief Secretary, MAWS and different elder officials were present.
