Slums in Chennai Slums in Chennai Chennai is the capital city of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is the fourth largest metropolitan city in the country. A total of 29% of Chennai population resided in slums as of 2011. The state government of Tamil Nadu has established a Slum clearance Board, with a minister heading it. According to the 2011 slum population Survey of India, 31% of Chennaities were living in slums. It is second in the list among Mumbai (40%) and Kolkata (30%). The other big cities New Delhi had 15% and Bangalore had 9% people residing in the
Tamil Nadu state has 17,000 hectares of land under oil palm cultivation, the second highest in India. Dr M.S. Swaminathan, known as the "father of the Indian Green Revolution" was from Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University with its seven colleges and thirty two research stations spread over the entire state contributes to evolving new crop varieties and technologies and disseminating through various extension agencies. Among states in India, Tamil Nadu is one of the leaders in livestock, poultry and fisheries production. Tamil Nadu had the second largest number of poultry amongst all the states and accounted for 17.7 per cent of