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Rural Development & Water Resources
Portfolios
- Rural Development, Panchayats and Panchayat Union
- Irrigation, Irrigation Projects including Small Irrigation
Chennai relevance
Water Resources handles Adyar, Cooum and Buckingham Canal desilting and flood-season coordination that affects Chennai's suburbs and lake-linked corridors.
On the Chennai shelf
- Floods / irrigation / WRD — Flood street-score desk
Related reading
Department lookup · Full minister roster · தமிழ்
Fine print
This page was drafted with AI-assisted tools and human editorial review for mychennaicity.in. AI can miss updates or local nuance — cross-check primary sources and your own documents before decisions. The 35-minister list was transcribed from Lok Bhavan Press Release No. 40 (21 May 2026) with human review. Honorifics and spelling may differ from secondary press reports.