Revenue and Disaster Management

    The Revenue Administration of the District which also handles the Disaster Management and mitigation subjects is headed by the District Revenue Officer. The office is located in the Collectorate Master Complex. This is divided into the following two Revenue divisions. headed by a Revenue Divisional Officer or a sub collector.

Revenue Division’s

1. Nagapattinam
2. Vedharanyam

    The Divisions manage taluk or a group of taluks as the next level of Revenue management unit. The Taluk is administered by the Tahsildar, assisted by Revenue Inspectors and Village Administrative Officers. The first division contains the following taluks

Taluk’s

Where as the later one contains the following taluks.

1. Nagapattinam
2. Vedaranyam
3. Thirukuvalai
4. Kilvelur

Executive Magistracy

Executive Magistrates are appointed by the government as per section 20 CrPC. There are, in each Revenue Districts the following kinds of Executive Magistrates:

1. One District Magistrate [DM]
2. One or more Additional District Magistrates [ADM]
3. One or more Sub-Divisional Magistrates [SDM]
4. Executive Magistrates

The Collector is appointed as the DM. Similarly, the Sub-Collectors are appointed as the SDMs. Tahsildars and Deputy Tahsildars are appointed as Executive Magistrates.

List of licenses coming under purview of revenue department are :

1. Arms & Gun License
2. Cinema Theatres
3. Petrol Bunks

   The Taluks contains ‘firkas’, a village or a group of villages as the revenue units managed by a Revenue Inspector [RI]. The last and least unit of the revenue administration is the ‘Village’ called as a ‘Revenue Village’. managed by a Village Administrative Officer [VAO].The Taluk is administered by Tehsildar, also called as Revenue Administrator.

Revenue Department seeks your co-operation to help you better.

1. Application in time with all relevant supporting documents
2. Meeting the official concerned directly for assistance
3. Refraining from approaching touts or middlemen for help
4. Not offering bribe or any other incentive to any government functionary.
5. Reporting to the higher officers when bribes are demanded.

    You may meet the Tahsildar, Revenue Divisional Officer, District Revenue Officer or Collector generally on any day. All Mondays are however exclusively set apart to hear public grievances. “Monday” is known as “Public Grievances Day”. On that day, Public Grievances receive exclusive attention and overriding priority. Similarly, 2nd Wednesday in the month is earmarked for District Administration Authorities to go to interior villages and meet the public directly for on-the-spot addressing of their needs to the extent possible.

The Revenue Department functions with the following broad objectives-

1. Providing efficient delivery of services of various Government schemes to the people of Tamil Nadu.
2. Providing relief and implementing rehabilitation measures for those affected by Natural Calamities.
3. Functioning as the custodian of Government lands and ensuring proper maintenance of land records for the State.
4. Implementation of Land Reforms and providing land to the needy and eligible persons.

To carry out the above mentioned objectives the following offices are functioning under the Department.

1. Commissionerate of Revenue Administration, Disaster Management and Mitigation.
2. Commissionerate of Land Administration
3. Commissionerate of Land Reforms
4. Commissionerate of Survey and Settlement
5. Directorate of Urban Land Ceiling and Land Tax.

The following is the list of Revenue Department officers, who assist the District Collector, in the General Administration of the District.

1. District Revenue Officer
2. Personal Assistant [General] to the Collector
3. Personal Assistant [Accounts] to the Collector
4. Sub Collector
5. Revenue Divisional Officer
6. District Supply Officer
7. District Backward Classes Welfare Officer
8. District Adi-Dravidar Welfare Officer
9. Assistant Commissioner [Excise]
10. Deputy Director [Mines]
11. Tahsildar, Nagapattinam
12. Tahsildar, Kilvelur
13. Tahsildar, Thirukuvalai
14. Tahsildar, Vedaranyam
15. Taluk Supply Officers in each of the Four Taluks.
16. Special Tahsildars [DRS] in each of the Taluks.
17. Divisional Excise Officer

services

1. Sanction of Old Age Pension
2. Sanction of Pension to Destitute Physically Handicapped persons
3. Sanction of Pension to the Destitute Widows
4. Sanction of Pension to Destitute Agricultural Labourers
5. Sanction of Pension to Destitute Deserted Wives
6. Financial Assistance in cases of death of the Bread Winner of the family
7. Financial Assistance in cases of accidental death to the family engaged in 44 chosen professions
8. Assistance to Agricultural Labourers and Farmers under Tamil Nadu Agricultural Labourers – Farmers Social Security and Welfare Scheme 2006
9. The scheme of distribution of 2 acres of wastelands to the families of landless poor agriculturists
10. Distribution of Free Colour Television Sets
11. Issue of Certificates [Prominent among them are]
    1. Community
    2. Income
    3. Nativity
    4. Destitute Widow
    5. Legal Heirship
    6. Intercaste marriage
    7. Solvency
    8. Deserted women
    9. Birth & Death in Village panchayats
12. Patta transfer
13. Creation of new sub-divisions
14. Assignment of cultivable lands and house sites
15. Tenancy Law implementation
16. Fair Rent fixation
17. Distribution of surplus agricultural land under Land Ceiling Act
18. Issue of
    1. NOC  for Cinema Theatres
    2. Pawn Broker’s licence
    3. Licence under Arms Act
    4. Licence under Explosives Act

    Besides the above, Revenue Department registers you as a voter and renders necessary service for inclusion or deletion of names in the Voter’s list. It also supplies you copies of Electoral Rolls, in case you need, at a nominal price. It conducts Elections to Parliament and Legislative Assembly.

    In times of Natural Calamities like Drought, Flood, Tsunami, Cyclone, Fire, Revenue Department rushes to your rescue with the following Services :-

1. Evacuation to safe places
2. Providing Food and Shelter during the duration of the calamity
3. Assisting with financial help in reconstruction of damaged dwellings