Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board Tamil Nadu State has a population of 7,21,47,030 as per Census 2011 and covers an area of 1,30,058 km Chennai (formerly known as Madras) is the State Headquarters. http://www.tn.gov.in/government Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board is administrated by Government of Tamil Nadu. It was formed by Tamil Nadu Slum Areas(Improvement & Clearance) Act 1971. The main function of this board is to eradicate the slum and provide hygienic tenements in Tamil Nadu. His Excellency the Governor of Tamil Nadu Thiru Banwarilal Purohit is the constitutional Head of the State. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu K.
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