490 Housing Board allottees get house site pattas in Coimbatore
The Revenue and Disaster Management Department in Coimbatore has distributed house site pattas to 490 Housing Board allottees. This is the first phase of a larger initiative to provide land titles to nearly 6,000 beneficiaries in the district.
Why it matters
The distribution of land titles provides legal security and housing stability to thousands of low-income families.
The Revenue and Disaster Management Department on Saturday (August 29, 2026) distributed house site pattas to 490 Tamil Nadu Housing Board allottees in Coimbatore, in the first phase.
Minister for Backward Classes Welfare V. Sampath Kumar distributed the pattas at an event held at Kongunadu Arts and Science College. The pattas issued in the first phase were for plots in the Ganapathy area of Coimbatore North taluk and were valued at about ₹14.78 crore.
The pattas were issued after the plots allotted to the beneficiaries were sub-divided in the revenue records and their requests for individual pattas were processed, the Minister said.
A total of 5,986 Housing Board allottees across Coimbatore district had been allotted plots and pattas would be issued in phases, he said.
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