The State government has sanctioned 109 additional posts of revenue officials, mainly to handle the volume of work involved in Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (KMUT), one of the government’s flagship schemes providing a monthly “rights grant” of ₹1,000 to eligible women heads of families.
According to the Government Order issued in this regard on Tuesday by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, the government has sanctioned these posts against the 323 additional posts requested by the Commissioner (Social Security Schemes), who is the implementing authority for the scheme.
The 109 posts, which will cost the government an additional annual expenditure of around ₹9 crore in salaries, includes 94 Deputy Tahsildars (DTs) in each of the 94 revenue subdivisions in the State, eight Special Tahsildars (STs) for Social Security Schemes (SSS) in eight recently formed taluks where this post has not been created so far, and seven more DTs in seven taluks where no posts of Zonal DTs have been sanctioned so far.
