Click on for guideline value data

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, APRIL 25. The guideline value information of any property in any nook of the State will only be a `click' away soon. Turning more public-friendly, the State Registration Department has decided to provide the entire gamut of property guideline data on its website (www.:http.\\igregn.tn.nic.in).

Announcing this in the Assembly today, Rural Industries Minister, Mr. I. Periyasamy, in his reply to the debate on demand of grants to the department, said that the property registrants can from now on visit the website, instead of hotfooting to the sub- registrar office for information.

Also, all sub-registrar offices in the State would be computerised and provided with ultra-tracers for instant detection of fake currency and registration documents, the Minister said.

To tide over the stamp paper shortage, franking machines had been installed in 15 sub-registrar offices in the State and the HDFC and LIC will be given licences for franking machines and allowed to use franked documents instead of stamp papers.

In the present financial year, 1,524 persons, particularly disabled, Adi Dravidars, widows and ex-servicemen would be appointed as stamp vendors.

The Registration Department had surpassed its targeted earnings by Rs. 19.86 crores and the samadhan amnesty scheme had yielded a revenue of Rs. 34.56 crores last year.

In a bid to hard-sell the handicrafts of Tamil Nadu all over the country, the Government's emporia, Poompuhar, would hold exhibitions in major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur and Hyderabad.

To promote the art of icon making, a three-year diploma course would be started in Swamimalai famed for its Panchaloka idols.

Stating that rural industries were on the upswing in Tamil Nadu, the Minister said under the present Government, capital subsidies for Rs. 306 crores had been given to small and tiny industries in the past four years as against Rs. 190 crores disbursed during the previous AIADMK regime. Tamil Nadu continued to hold on to the top slot in providing entrepreneurial training under the Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana scheme.

The Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO), which had registered Rs. 3-crores loss in 1995-96, had been turned into a profit- making unit with the targeted profit this year put at Rs. 1.12 crore.

The Arignar Anna industrial estate in Coimbatore, which was hanging fire because of Centre backing out on loan assurance, will be opened soon, with fund assistance from the Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation, the Minister assured the Assembly.

In a bid to boost the sagging sericulture industry, 80 quality improvement committees would be set up at a cost of Rs. 32.32 lakhs and the mulberry cultivation would be raised to 450 kgs per acre from 300 kgs, increasing the farmers' earnings by at least Rs. 15,000 per acre.

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