Overview

• The Dravidian Model drive allocates ₹36,000 crore to urban development and includes a ₹10,639 crore Smart Cities programme across 11 municipal corporations.
• A ₹9,011 crore package will fund 71 drinking water projects serving 12.1 million residents and a further ₹1,777 crore will support 17 underground sewerage schemes.
• The government has spent ₹4,673 crore upgrading over 9,000 km of roads, allocated ₹1,120 crore for 28 new bus stands with 99 more approved sites, and installed over 3.65 lakh LED streetlights across urban areas.
• Tamil Nadu’s largest desalination plant at Nemmeli now supplies water to 900,000 people and more than 100 km of stormwater drains have been laid in Chennai to mitigate flooding.
• The Urban Employment Scheme has generated over 12 lakh man-days of work and the Mudhalvarin Mugavari platform has resolved over 98% of citizen petitions to streamline project delivery.