Sunday, November 1, 2026
CM announces 3% DA hike for govt staff
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Govt declares public holiday on Nov 9
Govt declares public holiday on Nov 9
Chennai: State govt has declared a holiday on Nov 9, the day after Diwali, for govt offices, public sector undertakings, schools, colleges and educational institutions across the state. Diwali falls on Nov 8, a Sunday, this year. The govt announced the holiday to let employees and students celebrate the festival.
The order also states that Nov 28, a Saturday, will be a working day to compensate for the additional holiday. The govt issued the order after considering representations received from various quarters. The announcement is expected to relieve employees and students who may need to travel for the festival. Times News Network
Friday, October 23, 2026
State’s local bodies get expanded powers to approve building plans Move Aimed At Decentralizing Decision-Making
State’s local bodies get expanded powers to approve building plans Move Aimed At Decentralizing Decision-Making
23.10.2026
Julie.Mariappan @timesofindia.com
Chennai: All corporations and municipalities in Tamil Nadu can approve residential building plans with a total floor space index (FSI) area of up to 1,500sqm (16,140sqft) and a maximum of 16 dwelling units, said an order issued by the housing and urban development department.
FSI area is calculated by multiplying the plot area by the permissible FSI value. The earlier limit was 10,000sqft. “We have simplified the process. Under the previous regime, people faced unnecessary hassles,” housing and urban development minister B Rajkumar told TOI.
The state govt has enhanced the powers of urban and rural local bodies to grant planning permission for residential and commercial buildings. The move is aimed at expediting approvals and decentralising decision-making.
Town panchayats and rural development and panchayat raj bodies can now approve residential buildings with an FSI area of up to 1,200sqm (12,912sqft) with a maximum of 12 dwelling units, up from the earlier limit of eight. Under the revised delegation of powers, all rural and urban local bodies can approve residential and commercial buildings as tall as 14m, subject to a maximum of stilt-plus-three floors or ground-plus-two floors.
The earlier height limit for residential buildings was 12m tall. For commercial buildings, all three categories of local bodies can grant permission for structures with an FSI area of up to 500sqm (5,380sqft). “This is a welcome move. The Greater Chennai Corporation earlier granted permission only for buildings of up to 3,280sqft, while other local bodies were limited to 2,000sqft. The latest decision will help prevent violations arising from misuse of buildings,” said S Ramaprabhu of the Builders Association of India-Southern Centre.
The decision follows a recommendation by the commissioner of town and country planning to enhance the delegation of powers to local bodies. In 2020, AIADMK govt delegated planning permission powers to local bodies, excluding Chennai, allowing them to approve buildings with a built-up area of up to 10,000sqft and a maximum of eight dwelling units.
The limit for commercial buildings was 2,000sqft. Following representations from the Builders Association of India and CREDAI, the subsequent DMK govt amended the criterion for residential approvals, replacing built-up area with FSI area.
Monday, October 19, 2026
TN plans to fund degrees in the world's top 100 universities and make students pay in kind.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
State plans 4 regional DMEs as med colleges rise; doctors object
Friday, January 30, 2026
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Sunday, January 11, 2026
New pension scheme comes into effect from Jan 1 for TN govt staff
New pension scheme comes into effect from Jan 1 for TN govt staff
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chennai 11.01.2026
A week after chief minister M K Stalin announced pension reform to end the Jacttogeo’s two-decades-old protest, Tamil Nadu govt issued an order detailing the rollout of the TN Assured Pension Scheme (TAPS). The scheme, effective from Jan 1, will be mandatory for all govt employees who entered service from the beginning of this year. It will also allow more than six lakh govt employees under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), the option to choose between TAPS benefits and those available under the CPS at the time of retirement.
Those opting for TAPS will be allowed to commute a portion of their pension. It was, however, subject to conditions. “The TAPS will become operational after the notification of rules and completion of the necessary statutory and accounting requirements,” additional chief secretary T Udhayachandran said in the order dated Jan 9, giving statutory backing to CM’s announcement.
The govt, after carefully examining the recommendations of the Gangandeep Singh-led committee, decided to introduce TAPS, keeping in mind the welfare and expectations of govt employees, the state’s overall financial position, and its responsibility to ensure uninterrupted payment of salaries and pensions to serving employees and pensioners in the long term, the order said.
Meanwhile, calling it a political move made with the assembly elections in mind, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami described TAPS as nothing but “old wine in a new bottle”. PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss termed the TAPS as fraudulent, claiming it won't be implemented before DMK's term ends.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Jacto-geo to go on strike from Jan 6
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 23.12.2025
Chennai : The talks held by the ministerial panel with representatives of the Joint Action
Council of Teachers’ Organisations and Government Employees’ Organisations (Jacto-geo) failed.on Monday. Representatives of Jacto-geo announced that they would go ahead with an indefinitestrike from Jan 6.
The talks by ministers E VVelu, Thangam Thennarasu and Anbil Mahesh with Jacto-geomembers lasted for nearly four hours at the Secretariat. Their demands included the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and the withdrawal of the Contributory Pension Scheme.
According to Jacto-geo members, Velu said the TN govt was keen on restoring the OPS but wasconstrained by financial limitations. He attributed the situation to Union govt’s failure to release
TN’s due share of funds under various schemes and projects, which mounted financial stress on the state.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Doctors posts remain vacant in TN medical colleges; services and promotions affected
When that does not happen, it delays promotions further,” he said. For instance, the 2024 round of counselling for assistant to associate professor is still due because the state just completed the promotions for 2023. The 2025 round of counselling for posts of associate professors and professors is delayed. “We have posts of at least 400 professors, 800 associate professors, and 1,800 assistant professors vacant. All this is because officials failed to conduct promotions on time,” he said. This year, all 36 govt medical colleges in the state received show cause notices from the National Medical Commission, the apex body regulating medical education in India, for deficiencies. “One of the main deficiencies quoted was vacancies in faculty positions. Some depts had up to 80% vacancies,” said service doctors and postgraduates association state secretary A Ramalingam.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Govt employees, teachers to go on leave, hold protests
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