TN Wetland Authority stops short of ban on construction in buffer zone

 Restrictions proposed to protect drainage channels that sustain Ramsar listed Wetland

C Shivakumar @ Chennai:
Tamil Nadu’s wetlands authority has proposed allowing construction within parts of the buffer zone around Chennai’s Pallikaranai marsh, subject to restrictions designed to protect the drainage channels that sustain the Ramsar-listed wetland, according to official sources.

Official sources told TNIE that the Tamil Nadu State Wetlands Authority in its status report, which has been submitted to Madras High Court, has stated that construction need not be prohibited across the entire zone of influence and can instead be regulated according to site-specific scientific and hydrological characteristics. The revised interim zone covers 128.19 hectares across 36 survey numbers identified as potentially affecting the marsh’s hydrology.

The proposal follows objections from real estate developers, including CREDAI Chennai, Olympia Tech Park and Navin Housing and Properties, against the earlier demarcation drawn up after the Madras High Court’s August 4 order. The authority has not disclosed the extent of the changes made to the original boundary.

It is learnt that the authority received 23 representations from landowners, developers and others seeking the exclusion of privately owned patta land, reconsideration of specific survey parcels, recognition of existing buildings and development permissions, and a clearer distinction between the wetland boundary, its zone of influence and developed private land.

Following a further court order on September 7, officials met on September 30 to reconsider the proposed boundary. They examined historical Google Earth imagery to assess changes in water spread, low-lying areas, drainage channels, open land and built-up areas. Individual parcels were reassessed for their hydrological connectivity, drainage pathways, nearby wetlands, existing infrastructure and land use.

Sources said the authority observed thast the exercise sought to address concerns over the inclusion of private and some government land while balancing conservation and development.

Pallikaranai village accounts for 23 of the 36 survey-number entries in the revised zone. The others are in Sholinganallur, Karapakkam, Injambakkam, Perumbakkam, Okkiyam Thoraipakkam and Perungudi. Two parcels in Perumbakkam fall in Chengalpattu district, with the remaining parcels in Chennai district.

The proposed safeguards would prohibit the blocking or diversion of established inlet and outlet channels, natural drains and other water pathways. Dumping solid waste and construction or demolition debris in drainage routes would be barred, as would discharging untreated sewage, effluent or wastewater into watercourses connected to the wetland. Permanent alterations to established hydrological connections and industries classified as Red Category for their high pollution potential would also be prohibited.

Any construction within the proposed zone would require a no-objection certificate from the district-level wetlands management committee.

The approach would make the preservation of water flows, rather than a blanket construction ban, the central regulatory test for the interim zone. The authority says the safeguards are intended to prevent development from disrupting water entering or leaving the marsh or damaging its ecological character.

The revised boundary remains provisional. The authority says the final zone of influence will be determined only after scientific and cadastral assessments and ground verification under the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017, and the associated guidelines.

The report is to be placed before the High Court in about a dozen connected petitions, official sources said.

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Tamil Nadu seeks 70% GST share, special package for exporting states

CHENNAI:
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Dr N Marie Wilson on Thursday called for a fundamental change in the sharing of GST revenue, arguing that states should retain 70% of the proceeds instead of the current 50:50 split with the Union government.

Making the demand at his first meeting of the GST Council in New Delhi, the minister said states bear more than 60 per cent of public expenditure therefore need a larger share of GST revenues.

Urging the Union Government to come up with special packages for exporting States like Tamil Nadu, he said these should be outside the devolution mechanism and outside GST revenue share, so that the States are motivated to invest further and better in physical and social infrastructure for building a competitive ecosystem.

Drawing attention to several representations received from various trade associations of the State during the pre-GST Council consultative meeting held on September 3, 2026, Wilson highlighted that the differential GST rates on staple foods like rice is anomalous and exemption should be given irrespective of the quantity.

The minister, who was nominated to the Council by Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, also called for a reduction in the GST rate on job work from 18% to 5%, arguing that the lower rate would ease working-capital pressures on MSMEs and benefit a wide range of industries, from agarbatti manufacturers to automobile companies and exporters.

Dr Wilson also backed backed the proposed Rs 10,000 minimum tax threshold for issuing notices under Sections 73, 74 and 74A of the GST Acts, saying it would reduce compliance burdens on taxpayers facing action over relatively small amounts.

He backed the move to include input tax credit accumulated on capital goods in GST refunds for exporters. He also welcomed the plan to extend refunds under the inverted duty structure to input services, and a looser regime on blocked credits that narrows the list of exclusions. The inverted duty structure arises when inputs are taxed at a higher rate than the finished product. On the last two measures he warned that the revenue loss would fall on the states.

S Nagarajan, the state’s commissioner of commercial taxes, and other senior officials accompanied Dr Wilson.

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Four family property deeds to go paperless

CHENNAI:
Tamil Nadu will make the registration of four types of family property deeds paperless from November 2, allowing documents to be created, submitted and processed online while requiring the parties to appear before the sub-registrar only for authentication, according to a government order issued by the Commercial Taxes and Registration Department on Wednesday.

The move covers settlement deeds, release deeds, partition deeds and revocation of settlement deeds relating to family arrangements, and is part of the Registration Department's continuing shift towards digital registration under Project STAR 3.0.

According to the GO, the digitally executed deeds and supporting documents will be submitted through the online registration facility and processed through an electronic workflow. After registration, the document will be digitally sent to the citizen's login and preserved in the STAR system.

However, the paperless system will not do away with the physical appearance of the parties. They will still have to appear before the concerned sub-registrar for identification, Aadhaar authentication and completion of the prescribed registration formalities, the GO said.

The move is aimed at reducing the repeated handling, movement and scanning of paper documents and the need to maintain physical records at different stages of the registration process. It is also expected to improve traceability and retrieval of registered documents.

The government order said the Registration Department had proposed the expansion of paperless registration as part of its wider technology-led reforms to make registration services simpler, more transparent and citizen-friendly.

The department began computerisation with the launch of the STAR platform in 2000 and introduced paperless registration for selected categories of documents in January this year.

The government had subsequently introduced the first phase of Anywhere Registration in August, covering first sale of plots by promoters and first sale of flats by builders along with consecutive deposit of title deeds.

The latest expansion follows an announcement made by the Commercial Taxes and Registration Minister in the Assembly on September 7 that the four categories of family-arrangement documents would be brought under paperless registration.

The GO said the November 2 rollout would be subject to software readiness, completion of necessary workflow modifications and training of departmental officials and stakeholders.

Chennai port turns to digital tracking to ease export container flows

CHENNAI:
Chennai Port Authority has launched a digital system 'Port Setu' to track export containers on the road between inland warehouses and the port gate. It is the first step toward making gate entry fully paperless.

Port Setu, uses automatic number plate recognition, optical character recognition and RFID readers, linked to the customs ICEGATE platform. It records the time each trailer takes to travel from a container freight station (CFS) to the port. It went live on September 17 and was formally launched on Thursday.

The system, developed by the Chennai chapter of the National Association of Container Freight Stations (NACFS), went live on September 17 and was formally launched on Wednesday. It forms the first phase of an Intelligent Vehicle Monitoring System (IVMS) being implemented under the central government's One Nation One Port Process (ONOP) initiative to standardise and digitise procedures across Indian ports.

For the freight stations, the main promise is more efficient use of trucks. Port Setu gives them real-time visibility of trailer arrivals at the port. The authority expects this to cut turnaround times and allow one extra round trip for every six made.

The next phase is expected to take the system closer to a paperless port gate. Under Phase 2 of the IVMS, the container terminals will digitise the verification of seal intactness. Chennai Port Authority envisages that this will eventually make gate-entry procedures completely digital and paperless, a release stated.

Sachin S Kurve, chairperson of Chennai Port Authority and KPL, said the system would provide greater visibility of container movements and help CFSs optimise trailer management within the port's jurisdiction.

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Rangarajan urges GST Council to keep UPI payments tax-free

CHENNAI:
Former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan has urged the GST Council to keep UPI person-to-merchant transactions above ₹2,000 outside the GST net, arguing that India should first decide whether the digital payment system needs to carry a cost and whether now is the right time to impose it.

The 57th GST Council meeting is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on October 8.

Speaking at an event marking the launch of Cashless Nation: How UPI Changed Everything at IIT-Madras, authored by Dr Santanu Paul and B Sambamurthy, Rangarajan said there was a strong case for treating UPI as a public good, while cautioning that this did not necessarily mean it had to remain free forever.

“There is no general rule that no price should be charged on public goods. There are public goods on which prices are charged,” he said, citing museums and parks as examples.

The more immediate question, he said, was whether the time had come to impose a charge on UPI transactions.

“There is also the argument that 75% of transactions will not bear any charge. But that cuts both ways. If 75% of transactions will not carry a cost, why introduce the charge at all?” he said.

Rangarajan suggested that the cost of maintaining the payment infrastructure could instead be recovered at a later stage, perhaps over a five- or 10-year period.

“The question to ask today is whether today is the right time to do it,” he said.

He also pointed to a tax consequence of introducing a fee. Once a charge is levied for a payment service, it would constitute a taxable service and attract GST, requiring the government to determine the applicable rate.

“The moment you levy a charge, it automatically attracts GST, because it is a service provided, and GST will have to be paid,” Rangarajan said.

“My response is very clear. I would urge the GST Council, when it next meets, to come out clearly and say that GST should not be levied,” he said.

The authors of the book, meanwhile, highlighted the features that helped UPI become a mass-market payment system, particularly its interoperability and low cost.

The book's authors, Santanu Paul and B Sambamurthy, argued that UPI's success rested on four features: it is instant, easy to use, interoperable and free.

Paul said its architecture reflected what Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder, calls the "four-party model". Any app on the sender's side can transact with any app on the receiver's side, and either party can draw on any bank account. Two fintech companies and two banks thus deliver the efficiency of a payment within a single bank.

Some of India's largest lenders resisted the design, Paul said, because it threatened a business in which payments had long been something customers paid for. "Some of the biggest banks in the country were trying to crush the four-party model," he said.

Sambamurthy said the regulator made a "conscious decision" to mandate interoperability because UPI is a public good. That contrasts with systems elsewhere, where users can transact only within one platform's network.

Zero fees also transformed merchant acceptance. Before UPI, taking electronic payments typically required a point-of-sale terminal costing about ₹10,000. A QR code now does the job at almost no upfront cost.

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Rival states open Chennai offices to woo Tamil Nadu's investors and its dealmakers

C Shivakumar @ CHENNAI:

Tamil Nadu's status as one of India's favoured industrial destinations is being tested on its own ground. Rival states are opening offices in Chennai to reach the companies that have long looked to the city when expanding.

The Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board, an investment promotion agency, is contemplating to establish its presence here and Invest UP, Uttar Pradesh's investment promotion agency, has established a presence in the city. Haryana is also expected to follow, say sources.

The contest is also over people. Both agencies are drawing on investment-promotion professionals trained at Guidance Tamil Nadu, the state's investment promotion agency. The state Industries department has described poaching as a "serious concern". As it prepares a pay revision, staff have been asked to sign a bond promising not to join a competing state, according to people familiar with discussions held this week.

"There is huge demand for officials of Guidance because they are more skilled," a former Guidance official said.

The exposure is institutional as well as personal. Guidance was set up 34 years ago and was among the first state agencies to bring investment promotion in-house rather than lean on consultancies such as Boston Consulting Group, Ernst and Young and KPMG, a former Guidance official said. Officials from Kerala, Telangana and Karnataka have visited Chennai to study the model. Guidance has also spent years cultivating a network of target companies that newer agencies lack. Losing experienced staff could mean losing knowledge of investors, projects and negotiations, not just headcount.

A Industries department source told TNIE that there had been attempts to lure Guidance employees. He argued that states should compete on the strength of their propositions, not on each other's staff. "Our approach has never been to compete on incentives alone," he said, pointing to Tamil Nadu's industrial ecosystem, infrastructure, talent, speed of execution and policy continuity.

Andhra Pradesh plays down the rivalry. Openly we don't see it as a competition, an Andhra Pradesh industries official said, adding that it was not as bad as people over here think. The state's priority is anchor projects around which suppliers can cluster, and it will need closer links with Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai to build them.

Tamil Nadu has nonetheless lost ground to it. Under Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh has pursued investors aggressively. Hwaseung Enterprises, the South Korean footwear maker, moved a planned Rs 1,720cn non-leather footwear plant to Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh after being offered more lucrative land-linked incentives last year. It had earlier signed a memorandum of understanding with Tamil Nadu. Andhra Pradesh also beat Tamil Nadu to a proposed flight-testing and integration complex for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft, India's fifth-generation stealth fighter programme, and tried unsuccessfully to court a $4 billion HD Hyundai shipbuilding project, coming up in Thoothukudi.

Uttar Pradesh is taking a more direct approach. Its Chennai office, has been operating for about a month under a general manager, according to an Invest UP official. Offices are also being set up in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai. The aim is to meet investors "on the ground" rather than wait for them to come to Lucknow. Chennai's concentration of automotive, electronics and engineering companies makes it an obvious target. The state is also weighing country-specific enclaves for Taiwanese, South Korean and Japanese companies. Invest UP official has privately called the contest among states a "blood sport".

Tamil Nadu insists the new arrivals do not change its approach. The Industries department official said it remains in regular contact with companies in India and abroad, digitally and in person. "If India has to grow, every state has to grow," the department official said, arguing that states should aim to enlarge the overall pool of investment rather than redistribute it.

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Qatar interest fuels Kothari Industrial’s Tamil Nadu expansion

CHENNAI:
Kothari Industrial Corporation is seeking to accelerate its expansion in Tamil Nadu with interest from Qatar’s Al Thani family, as the group diversifies beyond footwear into design education, fertilisers, drones, food and consumer goods.

At its 56th annual general meeting in Chennai on Wednesday, executive chairman Jinnah Rafiq Ahmed said Sheikh Jassamal Al Thani had expressed interest in supporting KICL’s next phase of growth. The company did not disclose the size or structure of any proposed investment.

Tamil Nadu is at the centre of its expansion. KICL is developing a 225-acre project in Madurai and evaluating opportunities in Ramanathapuram. Its footwear operations include Phoenix Kothari Park at Padalur and an Adidas facility in Karur. The company is also partnering with Italy’s IUAD to establish a design school in Hosur, with short-term programmes expected from November and degree courses from April 2027.

KICL is reviving its fertiliser business, expanding drones into manufacturing and entering FMCG, a release stated.

TN registers one lakh property documents online

Tamil Nadu has registered more than 100,000 property documents in the 44 days from August 17 to September 30, under the state’s “Presenceless Registration” system, which allows documents to be submitted online around the clock without a physical visit to a registration office.

The system was made mandatory on August 17 for the first sale of plots and flats in apartment projects. From September 15, it was extended to title-deed deposits and receipt deeds involving banks and financial institutions.

The registration department in a release stated it would gradually extend presenceless registration to other categories of documents, with changes to the software being made on the basis of feedback from citizens, developers, banks and other users

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Uttar Pradesh vows to chase southern states industrial lead

C Shivakumar @ Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh, long associated with agrarian economy and jobless growth, is seeking to rewrite its economic narrative. Its Industries Secretary Vijay Kiran Anand has a blunt pitch for investors weighing opportunities in  southern states -- look north, where a vast domestic market and falling freight costs are making the state increasingly competitive.

Briefing a delegation of journalists from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Kiran said that India's most populous state — long an underperformer in manufacturing investment relative to its economic weight — is closing the gap with the south not through incentives alone, but through hard infrastructure. Nearly half of India's Dedicated Freight Corridor, 47 of its 115 stations, now runs through Uttar Pradesh, cutting the time for goods to reach ports to two days and radically lowering transport costs that have long favoured coastal manufacturing hubs.

"Industries like auto and electronics want to be near ports because of transportation costs," Kiran said. "Now, because of the freight corridor and the expressway network, dry ports have come up — nine of them, four run by the state-owned Concor and five by private operators," he says.

Investment has skewed south for decades, drawn by port access and a services boom that states such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra built on earlier social-sector spending. Uttar Pradesh, by contrast, still derives its growth largely from manufacturing and a still-agrarian base — 75-90% of its land is irrigated, and three-quarters of the population depends on agriculture.

"Tamil Nadu is a port state, which is why it has auto clusters for export and electronics manufacturing. UP has a huge domestic market, which is why cement, steel, and similar companies are setting up here. UP also has a large talent pool — 56% of the workforce is around 25 years old, a very young workforce," says Kiran.

While Tamil Nadu, the most urbanised state is facing shortage of usable industrial land, Uttar Pradesh claims it has 75,000-acre land bank. "Farmers are reluctant to give up land. But going by our experience with large airports and expressways, land acquisition here hasn't become controversial — there's now a set process, and we're able to do it even for industrial clusters," he says.

That land is now anchoring the state's defence manufacturing ambitions. Pressed on why the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor — now eight years old — has attracted only around Rs 4,000 crore, Kiran noted the programme effectively began in 2021, not at its 2018 launch, and that 60-70 companies have since committed across its six nodes. The Kanpur node already hosts India's largest defence-manufacturing facility, while Lucknow is producing BrahMos missile systems. In Aligarh, all but 350 hectares of a 5,500-hectare site have been allotted.

Where the state concedes ground most readily is services. Uttar Pradesh has yet to build the Global Capability Centre and IT ecosystems that have made Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad magnets for high-paying jobs — a gap the secretary attributed to the south's earlier investment in social infrastructure. With 56% of its workforce under 25, some 8,000 educational institutions and roughly 200,000 STEM graduates a year, the state produces more labour than it can currently employ at the top end, feeding migration south which Kiran says that the state now want to reverse through a dedicated GCC policy.

The state's MSME base — 9.6 million enterprises, of which 7 million are registered on the government's Udyam portal — is being organised around a "One District, One Product" model that originated in Uttar Pradesh before being adopted nationally, pairing roughly 75 districts with signature local products, from Lucknow's chikankari embroidery to regional food-processing clusters.

Urbanisation remains the starkest gap with the south: at roughly 30%, against Tamil Nadu's 50-60%. However,UP's urban population alone, at 7 crore, exceeds Tamil Nadu's entire population, the secretary said.

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Tata Trusts moves to unlock Rs 25,000cr exit route for Shapoorji Pallonji Group

Chennai:
Tata Trusts has put forward a proposal to help the Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group cash out part of its long-held stake in Tata Sons, in a move that could finally resolve one of Indian corporate history's most protracted shareholder standoffs.

The plan, tabled by Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, at a Tata Sons board meeting, would see the group's holding company buy back shares from two SP Group entities — Sterling Investments Corporation and Cyrus Investments — in a deal expected to fetch at least Rs 25,000 crore.

The proposal follows a series of discussions between Tata, Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran, and Shapoor Mistry, who heads the SP Group.

Under the structure understood to be acceptable to the SP Group, the share sale would be executed in two tranches over 18 months, with Tata Sons pursuing a selective capital reduction through the National Company Law Tribunal. Shares would be valued using the income-tax fair value method under Rule 11UA of the Income Tax Rules, 1962 — setting a floor, rather than a ceiling, on the eventual payout.

Tata told the board that funding could be drawn from a mix of sources: internal cash flows, sales of listed shares, bringing outside investors into newer Tata businesses, and potential listings via offer-for-sale of some group companies. He asked the board to authorise the NCLT process and instructed the Tata Sons and Tata Trusts management teams to continue talks with the SP Group and its bankers, reporting back periodically.

The move marks the latest chapter in a dispute that has simmered since Cyrus Mistry's ouster as Tata Sons chairman in 2016. The SP Group, which holds an 18.4 per cent stake in Tata Sons, has for years sought liquidity from the unlisted holding company — a request complicated by Tata Sons' private status and the absence of a ready market for its shares.

India's Reactor Ambitions Race Ahead of Safety Codes, says ASME India

 

Chennai:
India's rapid nuclear and hydrogen expansion is creating a growing need for new and updated technical standards, according to Madhukar Sharma, President of ASME India Private Limited, the US body whose codes underpin safety regulation for pressure vessels, piping and boilers worldwide.

India's atomic energy regulator relies on ASME Section III as the baseline code for Class 1 reactor components — the safety-critical parts of the country's pressurised heavy water reactors, a design lineage traced to CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) technology but substantially indigenised since, Sharma said on Friday on the sidelines of the second day of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition India, held in Chennai.

He said India’s indigenously designed Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor used the French RCC-MR code. The code is used for the design and construction of mechanical components in nuclear power plants for relevant high-temperature mechanical components.

India has no Small modular reactor (SMR) specific code, and companies are operating on proprietary in-house standards while global codes — a joint effort between ASME and the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers covering both fission and fusion — remain in draft, expected within a couple of years, Sharma added.

He said that India has published draft rules this week opening the nuclear sector to greater private participation, which ASME expects could accelerate the standards pipeline within six to twelve months. The absence of settled codes is compounding a separate supply-side constraint: India has just four or five qualified suppliers of nuclear-grade materials, against an estimated need for 50 to meet the country's target of 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2047, ASME said.

Sharma said that Light water reactors (LWR) are now gaining ground, and that's arguably where India should be investing next, much as it once invested in Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor technology — a choice partly shaped by India being excluded from LWR technology transfer in earlier decades. That constraint has eased considerably, and LWRs offer scalability into SMRs and even smaller, mobile reactor formats.

India has begun expanding nuclear engineering education at institutions including IIT Bombay and IIT Madras, while ASME is working with faculty at institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science on curricula, he said.

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