The Tamil Nadu government has recently notified the Tamil Nadu Land Pooling Area Development Scheme Rules, 2024.
The scheme enabled planned development of new areas, provides basic amenities and mobilises land for trunk infrastructure proposals.
The scheme, as defined in the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning (Third Amendment) Amendment Act, 2023, provides for pooling together land owned by individual/individuals and developing it by the appropriate planning authority.
A part of such developed land is transferred to the original owner, and the remaining portion is used to establish common facilities and amenities, or, for sale.
The land pooling ownership certificate is to be issued by the authority to land-owners within 60 days of the publication of the final scheme.
In 2018, the then government amended the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 to introduce the ‘land pooling area development scheme’, and eventually notified the draft rules in 2020.