TN Revenue Augmentation Committee chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia meets TN CM Joseph Vijay
The Revenue Augmentation Committee constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu under the chairpersonship of Montek Singh Ahluwalia held its first in-person meeting on Thursday at the Chennai Metro Rail Ltd Building in Nandanam, Chennai, where various revenue-generating departments presented their revenue structure and challenges.The Committee was originally constituted to suggest measures for the sustainable augmentation of the State’s Own Tax and Non-Tax Revenues.At Thursday’s meeting, the Committee is said to have 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, among others.future consulationsThe Committee also discussed the scope of its study, timeline of its report and its future consultations.“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 longstanding 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,” the Finance department said in a statement.The Chairperson and the Members of the Committee also met the Chief Minister along with the State Finance minster at the Secretariat and appraised them about proposed course of action.The Revenue Augmentation Committee had earlier invited suggestions from the public, associations, academicians through e-mail. The Committee is also said to have taken note of the suggestions received.Published on August 13, 2026
