The never-ending talk of shifting Tamil Nadu’s Assembly-Secretariat complex
In May 1983, MGR government issued an order to raise a structure for housing the Secretariat. But this was given up later. Nearly 20 years later, Jayalalithaa floated the idea of an Administrative City near Mamallapuram. When Karunanidhi returned to office in May 2006, he built the Assembly-Secretariat complex at the Omandurar Estate.
On September 3, 2026, Tamil Nadu's Minister for Energy Resources and Law, C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar, introduced a Bill in the state assembly aimed at amending the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services Act, 2025. The purpose of this amendment is to remove references to the National Building Code of India, 2016, as per the Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP), 2026.
The Bill was presented by Kumar on behalf of the Chief Minister, C. Joseph Vijay, who oversees the Fire and Rescue Services portfolio. According to the Bill's Statement of Objects and Reasons, the Bureau of Indian Standards withdrew the National Building Code of India, 2016, through a Gazette notification on April 30, 2026. The Business Reforms Action Plan has also recommended modernizing fire and building norms by eliminating references to the National Building Code in building laws and replacing them with more flexible and contemporary standards. Consequently, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to amend the original Act accordingly.
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