Madurai - SPEED 2008

Leading industrialists and senior Government officials had brainstorming sessions at the SPEED conference (Southern Prosperity through Enhanced Economic Development), organised by the CII Madurai Zone on December 5 and 6.

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More Power for Southern Districts of Tamil Nadu: Madurai and other districts

The cabient Thursday approved setting up a 1,000 MW coal-based thermal power plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, which will meet the rising demand of the southern region.

The plant would be set up by NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited, a joint venture of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB).

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

New Airlines in Madurai - Air Dravida - New Airlines/Flight Investment in Madurai

New Airlines in Madurai - Air Dravida - New Airlines/Flight Investment in Madurai

Air Dravida to be set up with an initial investment of Rs 110 crore would start three flights in Chennai-Madurai sector from July end, its Executive Director Ramachandran Iyer told newspersons here last night.

He said while Rs 40 crore of the initial investment would be infused by the company promoters, the remaining Rs 70 crore would be raised through debts and private equity routes.

The airliner, a division of Premier Tours and Travels (Chennai) Pvt Ltd, within two months of its operations would add two more flights to expand its service in South India.

It is going to be 50 seater Bombardier aircraft from Chennai to Madurai.

Sourcing from Economic Times

Chennai Tidel Park and Madurai IT Park

Looking back at the Tidel Park built in Chennai, we wanted to see at a glance what are the features currently existing in Chennai Tidel Park.
In future, hopefully much more than these would be available at Madurai IT Park.

About TIdel Park:


A workplace well connected to every part of the city, professional services, security, medical and recreational facilities, banking and more…

TIDEL Park offers a plug and play environment that allows businesses to thrive in an industry where some things must be taken for granted - a failsafe physical infrastructure, highly qualified manpower, amenities and facilities – right in the heart of Chennai city.


Tidel Park at a glance


0) Inaugurated on July 4, 2000
1) Build up area : 1.28 million Sq.ft. - State-of-the-art facilities
2) Located in the heart of the City on the six-lane express way
3) India's single largest IT Park.
4) Ample parking space
5) An ISO 9001 / 14001 Company
6) Connectivity - High speed data / voice communication backbone by multiple service providers
7) Recreation facilities
8) 100% back up for power & communication facilities
9) IBMS facility connected to all key utilities.
10) Video Conferencing facility
11) World's 3rd largest TES systems for ACMV
12) 24 x 7 service to occupants.
13) Most of the space occupied by multinational companies.
14) More than 12,000 software professionals employed in the Park
15) Well equipped Auditorium / Conference Halls for the use of occupants and other trade organisations.
16) Premises & Facility management by multinational Agency.
17) Facilitation / Consultancy Services for new JVs in IT infrastructure projects.

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.

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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.

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Karur District Profile and Industrial Potential: Madurai Machan reports

Karur Profile: near-by district of Madurai

Karur is exactly located at the center of the tamil nadu state. You will be amazed to see the amount of export Karur does in a year and to the places in different parts of the world. I was stunned to read that Karur exports to Walmart, IKEA, Target etc., 90% of the buses in South India are built in Karur!!

-Madurai Machan!

Karur Economy

Agriculture

The main crops are Paddy, Banana, Sugarcane, Battle leaf, Grams&Pulses, Topicco, Kora grass, Groundnuts, Oilseeds, Tropic-Vegetables, Garland Flowers, Medicinal Herbals etc.,.

Home textiles

Karur is famous for its home textiles. Karur has a niche in five major product groups — bed linens, kitchen linens, toilet linens, table linens and wall hangings. Overall Karur generates around Rs.6000 crores ($1200 million dollars a year) in foreign exchange through direct and indirect exports. Allied industries like ginning and spinning mills, dyeing factories, weaving etc employs around 300,000 people in and around Karur.

On the international textile map Karur has become synonymous with hand-loom “made-ups” first as Tirupur in the hosiery product. The weaving industry came to Karur from Kerala and has earned a reputation for its high quality hand-loom products today. Hand-loom Exports from Karur began on a modest scale with just 15 exporters in 1975 and today Karur has 1000s of exporters and the products are supplied to world leading chain stores like WalMart, Target, IKEA, Ahlens etc.

The hand-loom products being exported have been broadly classified under three heads viz., kitchen, bathroom and bedroom furnishing items. Some of the hand-loom made-ups exported from Karur are Bedspreads,Sheet sets, Towels, Floor rugs, Tea towels, Napkins, Aprons, Kitchen towels, Pot holders, Plate mats, Bathmats, Tea mats, Curtains, Pillow, Quilt covers, Shower curtains (above 500 classified verities).

Paper

TNPL is promoted by the Government of Tamil Nadu with loan assistance from the World Bank. Today TNPL is the largest producer of bagasse (sugarcane waste from Sugar mills) based paper in the world and the 2nd largest paper producer in asia. TNPL produces 230,000 tons of Printing & writing paper and consumes 1 million tones of bagasse every year.

Bus body building

Karur is a renowned centre for bus building industries. This is a unique feature of Karur and almost 90% of south Indian private bus bodies are being built here.And also Karnataka government buses. The total business is estimated to be around Rs.750 crore per annum.

Cement

Karur is also home to Chettinad Cements. It has an installed production capacity of 600,000 tons per annum, with another 1.1 million tons expansion in the pipeline.

Sugar

EID Parry has a sugar factory in Pugalur, Karur. It has a capacity of 4000 TCD per year. It also has a 22 MW co-generation Power plant, with TNPL.

Banking

Karur is the home town of India's oldest private scheduled banks, The Karur Vysya Bank and The Lakshmi Vilas Bank.

NYLON NETS

HDPE filament and associated product manufacturing. Its mainly for the fruit fields of Himalayas & north-east. Above 50% of nylon nets in India are made in Karur.

GEM STONES

The Karur belt also produces some very good Cats eyes, Feldspar, Moonstones, Aquamarines, Quarts, Sapphires, Jasper and beryls.

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CII Madurai Zone

CII Madurai Zone was started in the year 1993, covering all the 8 districts of South Tamil Nadu namely, Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Sivagangai, Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, Thoothukudi, Thoothukudi & Kanyakumari. Madurai is very popular for its rubber & its allied industries.

Madurai has long been a laggard in industrial development as compared to other parts of Tamil Nadu and India. Other industries which are more familiar in this region are Agriculture, auto component manufacturing, logistics & shipping, chemicals, textiles etc.,

In addition to the above mentioned industries, Tourism industry is an important sector which attracts large number of both foreign & domestic tourists to this region. Starting from Meenakshi Amman Koil in Madurai to the Kanyakumari at the tip of the country there are a large number of tourist attractions in this region.

Madurai is also home to a large number of health care industries, specially Aravind Eye Care System, which is an international eye-care hospital, research and training institute that provides quality and affordable eye health care to all, and an organisation which develops high-volume, low-cost service models for deployment in India and developing nations.

South Tamil Nadu is specially called as the Oxford of South Tamil Nadu as there are a lot of education institutions in this region. With 3 universities of world class education and around 120 engineering colleges & 235 arts & science colleges, South Tamil Nadu generates a major chunk of the professionals for the nation.

CII Contact

Confederation of Indian Industry
Madurai Zone
Plot No 518
4th Main Road (1st Floor)
K K Nagar
Madurai - 625020

Phone: 0452-4391424 /2522743
Fax: 0452-2521705
Email: ciimdu@airtelbroadband.org

Sourcing from CII inayathalam.

BUSINESS POTENTIAL OF MADURAI

BUSINESS POTENTIAL OF MADURAI

• South Tamil Nadu contributes around 17% of State GDP
• Madurai Zone is considered as the Gateway to Culture & Heritage and Home for Rubber & auto component industries.
• Sivakasi & Virudhunagar are the centres of world famous Printing & Fireworks manufacturing industries
• South Tamil Nadu is the home for Textiles Industries
• Thoothukudi is considered as the Hub port of this region with ocean connectivity to all countries in the world.
• South Tamil Nadu is also the destination of retail industries cutting across segments from Textile Showrooms to Food industry
• South Tamil Nadu has started to attract investments in the IT industry in the recent years with 2 Tidel Parks to be started in Madurai and 1 Tidel park at Tirunelveli.

Source: CII

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!