
Dept. levies to fund Harita Nidhi
The Hindu
The fund envisages massive plantation activity and sustainability
The State government has decided to raise corpus for the proposed green fund through levies that will be collected from different departments.
The government proposes to collect 0.01 per cent of the value of contract works of the Irrigation department while 10 per cent of the constituency development fund given to the MLAs and MLCs annually would be earmarked towards Green Fund. Similarly, ₹ 50 from every registration done by the Registration and Stamps department.
Likewise, ₹ 1,000 each will be collected from the amount generated through licences to shops, business establishments, renewal of permits to bars and wine shops towards the Green Fund.

Senior leader of the AIADMK’s ally Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) Nellai Mubarak called on DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the party head office in Chennai on Friday (April 11, 2025) and thanked him for the steps being taken by the Tamil Nadu government against the Union government’s Waqf (Amendment) Act.