The Tamil Nadu government has set up the Government Lands Retrieval and Protection Fund with an allocation of ₹50 crore, which will be used to meet the expenditure on account of eviction from and fencing of public land.
According to guidelines issued for the fund, priority must be given to the land in urban, sub-urban and peri-urban areas, where the land are more valuable and the likelihood of encroachment is high. Priority must be given to land where evictions were carried out but the likelihood of re-encroachment is high. Vacant sites identified as having a high chance of encroachment in future must be protected.
