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No. 428] CHENNAI, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Aadi 19, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2056
Part II—Section 1
Notifications or Orders of specific character or of particular interest to the
public issued by Secretariat Departments.
NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT
(Law Officers)
No. II(1)/PULO/22(b)/2025.
[CENSUS 2027 – EXTENSION OF DATE OF FREEZING OF BOUNDARIES OF ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU UPTO 31.12.2025 AND BAN THE FORMATION OF NEW UNITS WITH EFFECT FROM 01.01.2026 TO TILL THE COMPLETION OF CENSUS OPERATIONS – ORDERS – ISSUED.] The following Government Order is Published:—
[G.O. Ms. No. 521, Public (Law Officers), 4th August 2025, ஆடி 19, விசுவாவசு, திருவள்ளுவர் ஆண்டு-2056.] Read:
1. G.O.(Ms).No.885, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 31.12.2019.
2. G.O.(Ms).No.471, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 22.09.2020.
3. G.O.(Ms).No.101, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 12.02.2021.
4. G.O.(Ms).No.447, Public (Law Officers) Department dated 04.08.2021.
5. G.O.(Ms).No.92, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 29.01.2022.
6. G.O.(Ms).No.465, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 01.07.2022.
7. G.O.(Ms).No.80, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 30.01.2023.
8. G.O.(Ms).No.449, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 18.07.2023.
9. G.O.(Ms).No.142, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 13.02.2024.
10. G.O.(Ms).No.766, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 11.11.2024.
11. G.O.(Ms).No.101, Public (Law Officers) Department, dated 28.01.2025.
2 TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARYOrder : No. 521, Public (Law Officers), 4th August 2025.
In the Government Order first read above, orders were issued freezing of Boundaries of Administrative Units viz., Municipalities, Revenue Villages, Towns, Tehsils, Police Stations, Sub-Divisions, Districts etc., and ban on formation of new Units in the State of Tamil Nadu from 1st January 2020 to 31st March 2020.
2. In the Government Order 2nd to 11th read above, the date of freezing of Boundaries of Administrative Units was further extended upto 30.06.2025.
3. In the letter 12th read above, Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, has stated that the competent authority has decided to further extend the date of freezing of boundaries in the State of Tamil Nadu upto 31.12.2025 and the boundaries will be frozen with effect from 01.01.2026 and has requested to notify the same in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and to issue necessary instructions to the Departments concerned to give effect to the changes in the jurisdiction of administrative units, if any, latest by 31.12.2025.
4. In the circumstances stated above, the Government hereby orders to extend the Date of Freezing of Boundaries of Administrative Units viz., Municipalities, Revenue Villages, Towns, Tehsils, Police Stations, Sub-Divisions, Districts, etc. in the State of Tamil Nadu upto 31.12.2025 in connection with ensuing Census work and ban the formation of new units with effect from 01.01.2026.
5. All the pending proposals, if any to affect the changes in the existing Boundaries of Municipalities, Revenue Villages, Towns, Tehsils, Police Stations, Sub-Divisions, Districts etc., may therefore be finalized on or before 31.12.2025 under intimation to the Director of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu.
6. The Commissioner of Revenue Administration, Chennai, the Director General of Police, Chennai, the Commissioner of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Chennai, the Director of Municipal Administration, Chennai, the Director of Town Panchayats, Chennai, the Collectors of all Districts, the Commissioner of Greater Chennai Corporation, the Commissioners, Municipal Corporations are directed to adhere to the above decision of the Government.
(By Order of the Governor)
REETA HARISH THAKKAR,