Tirunelveli district gets two more industrial estates and an IT Park

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announces new industrial estates, IT Park, sewage treatment plant, and infrastructure improvements in Tirunelveli.

Even as the Gangaikondan SIPCOT Industrial Growth Center is overflowing with industries and the land acquired for this complex has almost got exhausted after the entry of TP Solar and Vikram Solar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has announced that the district will get two more industrial estates – one at Nanguneri and the other one at Moolaikkaraipatti.

Moreover, an Information Technology Park will come-up at Perumalpuram, he said.

Addressing during a function held in Palayamkottai on Friday (January 7, 2025), Mr. Stalin said the industrial estate to be developed by SIPCOT at Marukaalkurichi near Nanguneri on Tirunelveli – Kanniyakumari Highway would come-up on 2,200 acres while the second industrial estate would be created on 1,060 acres at Moolaikkaraipatti, situated about 20 km from Palayamkottai.

Since there is a spacious government land near Perumalpuram police station on which the temporary bus-stand was functioning a couple of years ago and was used as the terminus for omni buses for a while, the proposed IT Park will come-up on this land and also on the adjacent land on which the Sri Lankan refugee camp is now situated. In all, more than 4 acres of land is available in this location, which will be used for creating the IT Park.

“We’ve identified the land for relocating the refugee camp where the houses will built,” the officials said.

Since Tamirabharani, the backbone of irrigation and drinking water purposes of the southern districts, is getting seriously polluted by the domestic and industrial sewage flowing into the perennial river, a sewage treatment plant will come-up in Tirunelveli to treat underground drainage to save the river from pollution. The treated water will be used for industrial purposes.

The Chief Minister’s promise of constructing a ‘Y’-shaped rail overbridge at Kulavanigarpuram manned level crossing has brought much relief to the residents of Melapalayam area as the earlier proposal for constructing a ‘straight-line ROB’ at this busy point, where the gate is closed for 14 times a day, triggered objections from them. If a ‘Y’-shaped ROB is built, it will allow the residents of Melapalayam and those living in Perumalpuram and beyond can easily cross the manned level crossing.