Coimbatore -Textile and Engineering City of India

[Anniyan]

Coimbatore(also known as Kovai) is one of the most industrialised city in india, and fastest growing cities in India

Its well known for its textile ,auto ancillary, electric pumps& motors and various other engineering industries...

Situated at the foot hills of Nilgiris, it is known for its pleasant climate, peaceful atmosphere, cosmopolitan outlook and private enterprise.

[Anniyan]

Coimbatore Stock Exchange Limited (CSX) is housed in its own building at Trichy Road, Coimbatore with about 2 lakh sq.ft. of built up area



Its trading hall consists of 19000 sq.ft area. The Exchange has successfully implemented Screen Based Trading (SBT) system and commenced its operations with effect from 9th October, 1996. The system is capable of handling 25,000 trades per day

[Suncity]

Coimbatore is situated in the western part of the state of Tamil Nadu. It has an area of 105.5 sq.km. Along with the nearby town of Tirupur has one of the highest concentrations of textile activity in the world. It caters to nearly half of the country's need of pumps & motors. The basic engineering skills acquired over many decades have logically been extended to other advanced and precision engineering fields like auto components, machine tools, electronics and consumer durables, Industrial automation equipment etc. Many companies in the city have technical, financial, and marketing tie-ups with several reputed global leaders from the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, UK, France, Israel, Canada, Australia etc. The city is now all set to go places in the knowledge based industry. The annual export from this region is over US$ 1 billion. The newly built Codissia Trade Fair Complex, the first ever-private sector initiative, is the second largest permanent complex in the country. The city has many mini townships with independent villas and apartments all providing excellent amenities. State of the art health care facility is available in the city with many super specialty hospitals offering excellent services. The city is well connected by air, rail and road. There are direct flights to and from Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Sharjah. Coimbatore is a pleasant city with a small town atmosphere and is a convenient base for hill stations like Ooty.

-- info CIII

Here are some random pics of Coimbatore.

Raheja Enclave



Avinash (L&T)



Nilgiris Dairy Farm (Actually a Department store)



SAS Global Towers



HDFC House



Kovai Building



GEM Hospital



Kovai Hospital



Hindusthan College



Karl Kuber Foundation



Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding



Tamil Nadu Agricultural University



Bharathiyar University



Residency Hotel



Alankar Hotel




Heritage Inn



CAG Pride





City Tower

[Anniyan]

Nice pics..

[Anniyan]

A Truly prestigious Project Venture on a big scale of Rs.600 million and developed on 25 acres of land on Mettupalayam Road. The project comprises 145 Independent Villas, 48 Duplex Villas and 128 Apartments with exclusive amenities like ClubHouse, Community Centre, Swimming Pool, Landscaped Garden, Children’s play area etc

[MachuPichu]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Coimbatore(also known as Kovai) is one of the most industrialised city in india, and fastest growing cities in India

Its well known for its textile ,auto ancillary, electric pumps& motors and various other engineering industries...

Situated at the foot hills of Nilgiris, it is known for its pleasant climate, peaceful atmosphere, cosmopolitan outlook and private enterprise.

Never knew this city was this big. I was just there. Its extremely hot though. I just read Kamal Nath's notes on export growth. Going by what he says, if anything, this city should make its cityzens very rich indeed.

Only manufacturing and industrial production will alleviate the poverty of the millions. Services cannot do that. The negative side is manufaturing will bring with it a hefty amount of pollution and waste generation. I saw a BBC documentary where they showed the other side of Chinese industrialization. Bad rivers and water systems. I hope India goes the US way - responsible development - and not the China way - breeding environmental disasters.

[Anniyan]

Apart from being a manufacturing and textile hub , covai is getting ready to be one of the IT city of India..

A host of top-rung IT firms, such as Wipro,Cognizant Technology Solutions, Spectramind,Infosys, 24/7 Customer, have already announced their expansion plans in Coimbatore.

Already, Tata Consultancy Service, e-Brahma, KG Infotech, Pricol Instruments and other smaller IT firms operate in Coimbatore

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, the nodal agency to coordinate IT investments in the state, is developing 40 acres of land in Coimbatore for setting up an Information Technology Park. The park would have a built up area of 2.50 lakh sq.metres

Advantages of Covai:

Coimbatore was well connected by air, rail and road. "Coimbatore is one of the few tier-2 cities with an international airport with reasonably good domesticconnections

Coimbatore enjoys the advantage of the presence of 19 engineering colleges in and around the city that churn out over 6000 engineers every year.The city also has over 70 arts and science colleges and 14 polytechnics

[greatshankar]

Nice Photographs and details

[greatshankar]

Put Some Latest Buildings photographs.

[monyaam]

TN Govt is planning to promote Coimbatore as the second hub after
Chennai for IT and ITES. They dont want chennai to go in the lines of
bangalore which rightnow faces a crumbling infrastructure.

Coimbatore like Chennai has a lot of well established hospitals. Coimbatore-Tirupur-Erode-Salem belt is famous for textile exports with a lot of small scale industries.

Last but not the least Kovai has a wealth of well reputed engg. colleges and a great university.

[Anniyan]

GOVENMENT COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (popularly known as GCT)


About GCT:

The Government College of Technology, Coimbatore formerly known as Arthur Hope College of Technology, was started in July 1945 in accordance with the general policy of the then Government of Madras to give high priority to technical education under the post-war reconstruction schemes in order to meet the demand for trained engineers for various industrial and development projects in the State and rest of India. Now it is one of the top Engineering College in the country having a very good infrastructure and facilities. I am a proud GCT alumni.

[Anniyan]

Codissia Trade Fair Complex, the first ever-private sector initiative, is the second largest permanent complex in the country

[greatshankar]

Thats all in coimbatore?

[Anniyan]

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) – Chennai has established Coimbatore's first state-of-the art 1,00,000 sq.ft. IT Park, complete with reliable, high quality infrastructure and supporting amenities.



It is located off NH-209, it is merely 12 kms from the Coimbatore airport and the city center

[Luckystreak]

Its design looks like a rip off of the Vidhansoudha in bangalore

[Anniyan]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) – Chennai has established Coimbatore's first state-of-the art 1,00,000 sq.ft. IT Park, complete with reliable, high quality infrastructure and supporting amenities.



It is located off NH-209, it is merely 12 kms from the Coimbatore airport and the city center

Maran to inaugurate STPI-IT Park today

Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran is today scheduled to inaugurate an IT park at the Kumaraguru College of Technology here, the first one promoted by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in the campus of an educational institution.

Software major Cognizant Technology Solutions has already taken about 40,000 sq.ft of space, while medical transcription leader, Healthscribe India, has booked as much area area in the one lakh sq.ft IT park

Cognizant, which also starts its full time operations tomorrow, has plans to have 400 professionals in the first year of operations, Selvakumar said, adding that Healthscribe would be employing about 700 persons for its services in medical transcription and clinical documentation.

STPI has entered into an agreement with the college for establishing the park in the campus for enabling IT companies to set-up operations in Coimbatore, emerging as major IT destination

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/h...0508060350.htm

[Anniyan]

yeah i too thought the same..

[greatshankar]

FDI in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu ranks third in the country in total foreign direct investment (FDI) with Rs. 22,582.64 crores, next only to Maharashtra (Rs. 36,602.41 crores) and Delhi (Rs. 30,303.79 crores). The State's investment constitutes 9.12 per cent of the total FDI in the country.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/22/stor...2211030100.htm

[greatshankar]

FDI Race - Where is Karnataka?

Tamil Nadu ranks third in the country in total foreign direct investment (FDI) with Rs. 22,582.64 crores, next only to Maharashtra (Rs. 36,602.41 crores) and Delhi (Rs. 30,303.79 crores). The State's investment constitutes 9.12 per cent of the total FDI in the country.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/22/stor...2211030100.htm

[greatshankar]

FDI Race TN won Bronze

Tamil Nadu ranks third in the country in total foreign direct investment (FDI) with Rs. 22,582.64 crores, next only to Maharashtra (Rs. 36,602.41 crores) and Delhi (Rs. 30,303.79 crores). The State's investment constitutes 9.12 per cent of the total FDI in the country.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/22/stor...2211030100.htm