The Revenue Augmentation Committee held its first in-person meeting with major revenue-generating departments.

Press Release No : 537 Date: 13.08.2026 PRESS RELEASE REVENUE AUGMENTATION COMMITTEE – HOLDS ITS FIRST IN-PERSON MEETING; MAJOR REVENUE GENERATING DEPARTMENTS PRESENT THEIR VIEWS The Revenue Augmentation Committee constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu under the chairpersonship of Thiru Montek Singh Ahluwalia held its first in-person meeting today at the Chennai Metro Rail Limited Building, Nandanam, Chennai. 2. The Committee was constituted to suggest measures for the sustainable augmentation of the State’s Own Tax and Non-Tax Revenues. At today’s meeting the Committee heard detailed presentations from the major revenue-generating departments of the State, namely Commercial Taxes, Registration, Prohibition and Excise, the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation, Transport, Geology and Mining, Water Resources, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Town and Country Planning and the Bureau of Public Enterprises. 3. Each department placed before the Committee the structure and administration of its revenue head, including the use of information technology, the trend in collection, the buoyancy of the head, the long- standing challenges, including leakages, evasion, administrative bottlenecks, the gap between potential and actual revenue, a comparison with the practices in other States, and the possible next steps for revenue augmentation in the short, medium and long term. 4. The Chairperson and the Members of the Committee met the Hon'ble Chief Minister along with the Hon'ble Minister for Finance, Planning and Development, at the Secretariat and appraised them about its proposed course of action. 5. The Committee had earlier invited suggestions from the public, associations, academicians through e-mail. The Committee took note of the suggestions received. The Committee discussed the scope of its study, timeline of its report and its future consultations. ************ Issued By: - DIPR, Secretariat, Chennai – 9