Karur Hospital upgrades

Six Government hospitals in Karur district are set to get new and additional buildings at an estimated cost of Rs 7 crores. Civil works have commenced for the projects. It has also been planned to upgrade facilities in 270 Government hospitals across the State at a cost of Rs 55 crores.

Official and Latest News on Madurai IT Park: Madurai Tidel Park: Madurai Airport - Foundation Stone for New Terminal Building in Madurai Airport

Official and Latest News on Madurai IT Park: Madurai Tidel Park: Madurai Airport - Foundation Stone for New Terminal Building in Madurai Airport

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On the evening of 26th of April, Chief Minister Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi is laying a foundation for three important things -

1) Airport Expansion to International Terms - New Terminal Foundation.
2) Madurai Tidel Park in Madurai North - near Mattuthavani
3) Madurai IT Park in Madurai South

This function is scheduled to happen this weekend on 26th of April in the Madurai Airport.

We are very glad about the whole news and it is going to change everything in Madurai to a very new positive level.

Tamil Nadu (CM) Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone for a new Integrated Terminal Building at Madurai Airport on April 26.

Official sources said as part of the modernization of the Madurai Airport, the Integrated Terminal Building which could handle 500 passengers at a time would come up.

Mr Karunanidhi will also lay the foundation stones for the much awaited Madurai North Ilandhaikulam Information Technology Park and Madurai South Vadapalanji Information Technology Park at a function to be held at the Madurai Airport on the same day.

Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu and Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel would also participate, the news sources added.

Exponential growth in Coimbatore

THE industrial and textile city of Coimbatore is in the throes of a big change. For the past three years, it has witnessed ceaseless activity in every area – real estate, foundry, engineering industry, civil aviation, information technology, textiles, hospitality, health care, education and poultry farming. However, the resulting economic boom has brought in its wake a host of problems, and the optimistic mood that prevailed earlier is now tempered with caution.

If the six-laning of the arterial Avanashi Road and the cutting down of hundreds of trees lining the road for this purpose are the most visible form of activity, there are numerous entrepreneurial activities taking place quietly. For instance, the construction of a massive Trade Fair Complex with five halls and with a total built-up area of 30,000 square metres. Two halls, big enough to hold industrial exhibitions, and a food court of international standards are the latest additions. The Trade Fair Complex is the flagship project of the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA). It is gearing up to host the biennial Industrial Technological Fair from February 1 to 6. About 450 participants are expected to showcase different types of CNC machines, hydraulic presses, general engineering machinery, welding machinery, construction equipment, gearboxes, motor pumps, and so on. Fourteen foreign countries are also participating.

C. Muthusami, the low-profile president of the association, said: “CODISSIA is the first district association in India to own a trade fair complex. The complex is spread over 40 acres. The entire complex has been built without any assistance from the government. The first phase, which involved the construction of three gigantic halls, was completed in just 155 days.”

In April, Suguna Kalyana Mandapam will host a “Made in Coimbatore” exhibition organised by the Lions Club of Coimbatore Gems. The city has pioneered many products – wet grinders, household appliances and domestic and irrigation pumps, to name a few.

“What is not made in Coimbatore?” asked N.S. Kumar, chairman, Yenyeskey Machine Tools, Coimbatore, who is striving to make the exhibition a success. “The people of Coimbatore themselves do not know the range of products made here. Wet grinders were first made here. Different types of textile machinery have their origins in Coimbatore.” If there was hype about Coimbatore being the second information technology hub in Tamil Nadu after Chennai, it is becoming a reality. After a delay of about 15 months, the first steps have been taken for the construction of TIDEL Park, Coimbatore (TPCL). It is a joint venture of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), the TIDEL Park and the Software Technology Park of India (STPI). The success of the TIDEL Park in Chennai has encouraged its promoters to build a second TIDEL Park, in Coimbatore, which will be a massive plug-and-pay building complex for IT companies. It will have three basements, ground floor and four upper floors, a total built-up area of 1,61,500 sq m. Bids have been invited for building this sophisticated complex with civil and allied works at an estimated cost of Rs.140 crore. The complex will come up at ELCOT’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for IT at Vilankurichi.

Sourcing from hikrish and hindu

Multi-product SEZ in Tirunelveli: Nanguneri Project: Nearby districts of Madurai

A memorandum of understanding to establish a multi-product first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Nanguneri, Tirunelveli, was signed in presence of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at the Secretariat Thursday.

The estimated Rs 15,000 crore project will be implemented by Tamilnadu government with assistance from Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) on 2,520 acres and aims to provide employment to 70,000 people. This is great for both job seekers and for the potential entrepreneurs.

The project would be jointly executed by TIDCO, AMR group of companies and AMRL International Tech City Ltd. The products that would be manufactured here include spareparts for engineering and medical utilities, electrical and electronic products, information technology, along with biological products and transportation units in the first phase.

sourced from news today net. a chennai based english news evening daily!

Madurai to contribute to TN(Tamil Nadu) software exports in year 2009

The special economic zones for IT-ITeS industry in Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Salem, Tirunelveli, Hosur and Vellore announced by the state government were with an intention of increasing the software exports, Tamil Nadu State Chief Minister Karunanidhi said.

Tamil Nadu's software exports are expected to cross Rs 26,000 crore during the current fiscal, state Chief Minister said in Chennai. Rs 14,400 crore in 2005-06, rose to Rs 20,700 crore during the previous fiscal.

It is expected to rise again to Rs.26000 Crore for the year 2009.

Read more here

Boost Refined Cotton Exports and Textile Park in Madurai

Boost Refined Cotton Exports and Textile Park in Madurai near Vadippatti, Madurai

Tamil Nadu Government and Central Government of India are planning to boost the production of refined cotton products in Madurai.

Due to uncontrolled exports of raw cotton to various countries, the production of refined cotton products is affected. The weavers are not getting enough raw cotton.
This is mainly felt in Karur and Tirupur too.

Union Minister of State, Mr.E.V.K.S. Elangovan announced that another textile park would come up in Madurai at a cost of Rs 70 crore, the funds for which had been allocated by the Centre. The state should select a site to set up the park. A site had already been selected at Vadipatti for another park in Madurai district at a cost of Rs 30-40 crore.

Please read more at Economic Times

Madurai's Potential Lost in past

What do you know about Madurai-TamilNadu?

You may know - Madurai is known as :
ATHENS OF THE EAST
TEMPLE CITY OF INDIA
LAND OF NECTARS etc...

You may Know - Madurai is famous for its :

Meenakshi Temple
Tradition and Culture
Fragrant-smell JASMINE Flowers
Granite Marble stones
Tasty Food etc.,

While asking experienced people - they'll reply :

Madurai lacks Industrialization so lost millions of its native people to other cities.

That is real truth ! Did you know one thing ?

Our Temple city Madurai is losing nearly 40,000 Graduates every year to other cities like Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and losing 50% of its Man-power to the industrialised cities like Coimbatore, Tirupur and Erode due to Unemployment.

Just Imagine the status of our city if those people remained here for work! None of the previous Governments took efforts to develop the Historic temple city. We had lost a Second MetroPolitan city of TamilNadu - YES !!! - Our Madurai might have become a Metropolitan city some decades ago next to those 4 Cities like what PUNE,BANGALORE,HYDERABAD is now emerging!! If there was a proper Governance and Good Local Administration.

But Taking its Potential into account - Our Present State and Central Governments had come forward atlast to develop our City Madurai right now.

Do anyone of you know its results ?

MADURAI is the only Tier-II City which attracted the Investments for More than Rs.50,000 Crores in the last two years which is now equal to the same power of Metros and Mini Metro cities of India.

Since this article is about improvement of Madurai, sourcing it from another madurai well wisher - madurai gilli - all for wellness of Madurai!

International Flight by June in Madurai: Madurai Airport

Madurai Airport to have an international flight by June

In a recent CII meeting, Dindigul MP NSV Chitthan had said that there will be an international flight from/to Madurai to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Gulf Countries, Sri Lanka, South East Asia etc.,

Speaking at a function organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Madurai Zone, to formally present the report on ‘Traffic potential at Madurai airport’, here, on Wednesday, Chitthan said that the Union Minister for Civil Aviation had given him an assurance on the operation of an international flight from Madurai by June when he represented the demand of the people in southern districts of Tamil Nadu to him.

Speaking on the occasion, T Kannan, former chairman, CII (Southern Region), underscored the importance to focus on second-tier cities to boost economic growth. Expressing concern over the absence of economic boom in the southern region of the State, Kannan said Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai to a certain extent, were benefited by the boom that was sweeping the world while it was yet to reach other cities.

Please read more at new ind press

Clean and Green Madurai

Clean and Green Madurai is one of the key things which will facilitate our tourism. Again there are three tasks. Slight relation with KAIZEN. First - Clean the whole Madurai. Second - Maintain the clean and green madurai. Third - Bringing in new improvements and procedures(probably LAW) for proactively clean New Madurai, rather than reactive solution. Bring in the student population and use their time effectively, for cleaning whole of Madurai. If we have to take up the reactive solution, maintenance is going to be tough and costly. If we put the rules and laws across, then we don't need to spend time and money on maintenance. Give options for bigshots, businessmen for adopting certain areas for improvement. Calling 555 for cleaner Madurai enforcement force.

Individual Madurai's responsibility

If every citizen has the following idea in mind in order to take the responsibility, we have the synergy to accomplish the task. Feel that whole Madurai is one entity. It is all team work doing various tasks, but the goal is same. Every citizen should feel that first of all individual task has to be performed for individual improvement, next comes family, next comes his relatives improvement, next comes community, next comes the street improvement, next comes improvement of section of madurai, next comes whole city improvement. If everybody realizes this basic idea, we are on right track.

Madurai to New Madurai - High Level Action Items and Tasks

There are three main tasks to be carried out. One is solving the existing problems, next is improvement of the solved Madurai, next is taking Madurai to a world class place. Time period for creation of New Madurai will take a lifetime. Before 2030. This is going to be Vision 2030.

Unused potential productive population in any country

There are two categories of people who can be made productive in the society in order for our improvement in revenue for the city. They are: Majority of women and college students. In addition to this category, there are certain lazy category of men, who are not productive. Every person is responsible for the improvement of himself, his family and the society of Madurai and in turn for the country. While designing the improvement of industrialization, we should include a percentage of employees as the above category of people.

Government Rajaji Hospital getting better?!

The patients at Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai don’t have to wait for hours to be called in for diagnosis. There seems to be good amount of improvement happenning, after the new collector took charge.

Attendants and other staff are pushing gurneys and wheel chairs from one ward to another. The buildings and premises are being cleaned, drainage channels are being unclogged, drinking water facilities are being installed, waste bins are being constructed and electrical maintenance is also underway.

Recently, as per dinamalar.com, it was reported that recovery room was recovered from contamination. Recovery room is nothing but a post-surgery room, where you have all the post-surgery needs would be available. Looks like that was recovered.

Overall, there are many improvements to this age old hospital happenning. Let us wait and see, how it goes...click here...

Tamil Nadu - Literacy Percentage!

This is a very interesting map - I spent 10 minutes taking a look at this map. I had to derive lot of things from this map. i had so many questions in my mind popping up?

Let me list out some of them here. I would like to answer those questions in one of the forthcoming articles as well.

1. I could not derive anything for the (good) cause of the high literacy rate of Tuticorin, Nilgiris. Kanyakumari and Nilgiris district is literate may because it is near Kerala, but we need to find the reason behind tuticorin, which is a good thing and we need to apply in other districts?

2. Why would there be a differentiation in literacy rate, when the government plans apply a same plan all across tamil nadu.

3. Why Madurai is not highest in literacy percentage? I am happy that atleast it is in secondary stage!

4. Is this differentiation because of politics or is it because of people? Probably because of people response towards the government plans.

5. Why there is backwardness in some of the places of tamilnadu?

Note: Tamil Nadu State's districts are listed in the map - Tiruvallur, Chennai, Vellore, Kancheepuram, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, Villupuram, Salem, Nilgiris, Erode, Namakkal, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Tiruvarur, Tiruchirappalli(trichy), Karur, Coimbatore, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Pudukkottai, Theni, Madurai, Sivagangai(Sivaganga), Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin(Thoothukkudi) and Kanyakumari.