Trichy Region Projects thread

[MaduraiSelvam]

Flights to Dubai, Singapore and Delhi or Bombay will start from Trichy by Air India Express.

Source: www.dinamalar.com

[madurai veeran]

TIRUCHI: The information technology park to be promoted by the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu will come up at Navalpattu on the outskirts of the city.

About 135.04 acres, off the Tiruchi-Pudukottai Highway, has been transferred to the ELCOT. The park will include a built-up area of one million square feet, which will be open for allotment besides plots to be constructed by the Corporation. The ELCOT plans to get the park declared a special economic zone for IT and IT-enabled services, Managing Director C. Umashankar told The Hindu .

Though there has been much speculation on the location, ELCOT and district administration officials have settled for Navalpattu, which offers scope for expansion. "We are looking at the possibility of getting more land adjoining the site at Navalpattu," Mr. Umashankar said.

Besides being revenue land, which is easy to transfer, the site is closer to the airport. The ELCOT will begin construction of the built-up area after obtaining the Government's approval. Work on strengthening the approach road is expected to begin soon. The demand for space in the Tiruchi park, Mr. Umashankar said, was as good as those in the other Tier-II cities.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/24/stor...2404890700.htm

[MaduraiSelvam]

Rs. 500 crore for new bridges, repairs

CHENNAI: The Highways Department has prepared a plan for repairing bridges and constructing new ones at a cost of Rs. 500 crore, Highways Minister Vellakoil Saminathan told the Assembly on Wednesday.Informing the House that a list of bridges was being prepared, he said attention would be paid to the Cauvery delta where numerous bridges were constructed during the British period.
On renovation of the Thanthai Periyar bridge across the Cauvery connecting Kulithalai and Musiri, the Minister said this would be taken up at a cost of Rs. 2.94 crore. Considering the bridge's condition, entry of heavy vehicles was banned on January 4.
Responding to an appeal by C. Govindasamy of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on problems faced by students of middle schools at Tirupur, School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu promised him that upgradation demand of the middle schools in the area would be considered. Infrastructure improvement would be taken up under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. To a query by Deputy Speaker V.P. Duraisamy on the introduction of compressed natural gas vehicles in Chennai on the lines of New Delhi, Environment Minister T.P.M. Moideen Khan said it was under consideration.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/25/stor...2516320800.htm

[madurai veeran]

US-based Sun Microsystems is expanding its presence in India's tier II and III cities. It has identified 18 such cities for entry with the help of its partner network, according Mr Rajesh Rege, Director, Sales, Sun Microsystems India.

The cities identified include Coimbatore, Tiruchi, Dehradun, Guwahati, Goa, Indore, Bhopal, Ranchi, Jammu and Nagpur, he told newspersons.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...3100761300.htm

[MA Eswaran]

Hi all,

Any idea "Navalpattu" is how far from Trichy airport? I request any one who has the Trichy map showing this "Navalpattu area" with respect to Trichy airport, to pl post here.

Thanks

[madurai veeran]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for widening of National Highways for three sub-projects in Tamil Nadu: Salem-Ulundurpet (136 km), Trichy-Dindigul (88 km) and Trichy-Karur (80 km) costing Rs 941 crore, Rs 576 crore and Rs 516 crore respectively on build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis, said an official release.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...0203481100.htm

[madurai veeran]

Originally Posted by MA Eswaran

Hi all,

Any idea "Navalpattu" is how far from Trichy airport? I request any one who has the Trichy map showing this "Navalpattu area" with respect to Trichy airport, to pl post here.

Thanks

Hi Eswaran, i googled to find that Navalpattu is 4kms from Trichy airport on the Trichy-Pudhukottai NH.

Here is a link to a flash presentation on Trichy in which i found this info.

http://www.anadocs.in/reviewelcot/el...ges/trichy.swf

[vpamal]

Hi all,

3 highway sections in Tamil Nadu to be upgraded

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet's Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday gave its approval for upgrading the Salem-Ulundurpet, Tiruchi-Dindigul and Tiruch-Karur sections of the national highways in Tamil Nadu at a total cost of Rs. 2,033 crores.

The upgradation would be undertaken on build-operate-transfer mode under phase III A of the National Highways Development Programme phase. The Salem-Ulundurpet section would cover a distance of 136 km and cost Rs. 941 crores, while the Tiruchi-Dindigul section would cover 88 km and cost Rs.576 crores and the Tiruchi-Karur section would cover 80 km and cost Rs. 516 crores.

The projects had come up for clearance at a previous meeting of the CCEA itself along with a similar project for upgrading Bangalore-Mulbagal section of the national highways in Karnataka. The previous meeting cleared the Karnataka project, but deferred a decision on the projects in Tamil Nadu because of certain discrepancies in the concessional agreements. The discrepancies were later removed leading to Thursday's decision.

[MA Eswaran]

Hi Madurai Veeran,

Thank you for your link & the info.

MAE

[muruspas]

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/feb/08it.htm

Tier-two cities in Tamil Nadu are fast emerging as new IT destinations, with a number of projects aimed at attracting IT investment nearing completion in cities like Madurai, Coimbatore and Trichy.

Initiatives have already been taken up to set up an information technology park in Coimbatore on the lines of Chennai's Tidal Park. Similarly, the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu is setting up two IT parks in Madurai and Trichy, which are expected to get the status of special economic zones.

In Trichy, about 135 acres of government land had been transferred to Elcot for the purpose of establishing IT parks. Sources in Elcot told Business Standard that the corporation had acquired 135.04 acres at Navalpattu on the outskirts of the city, where it would set up an IT park soon.

The corporation has submitted a proposal to the government to declare the park as a special economic zone for IT and IT-enabled services. Elcot plans to construct a built-up area of about one million square feet.

Navalpattu, situated on the Trichy-Pudukkottai highway, was chosen for the project considering its proximity to the Trichy International Airport. Elcot is looking at the possibility of acquiring more land near the site for future expansion.

With the completion of the ongoing expansion and modernisation of the airport and the upgradation of Trichy-Pudukkottai highway, the officials expect that the park will be able to attract huge investments.

Moreover, the rich talent pool in the city, which churns out not less than 10,000 graduates in the software and hardware sectors every year, is also expected to attract big firms.

Meanwhile, Elcot has also completed the acquisition of land in Madurai to set up another IT park. Sources said that the state government had already transferred 8.81 hectares of land in Ilandhaikulam near Pondikudi and 16.02 hectares at Kinnimangalam near the Madurai Kamaraj University, to the corporation.

Elcot sources said that a plug-and-play facility, similar to the one at the Tidal Park, would also be created in the proposed IT Park at Madurai, the construction of which will begin soon. They claimed that 50 per cent of the booking for space in the park was already over.

The Trichy City Corporation is also making all efforts to utilise the Centre's Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns as well as the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme. Under the UIDS programme, the Centre would provide 80 per cent of the project cost as grants, while the state and city corporations would contribute 10 per cent each.

[muruspas]

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/10/stor...1005650400.htm

TIRUCHI: Tiruchi Anna University, which became functional earlier this month, will promote information technology-assisted education and focus on creativity and innovation.

Vice-Chancellor V. Ramachandran, who assumed charge on Friday, told reporters that effective IT-assisted learning environment would be created for learners to complement existing teaching methodologies.

Web-based education

Teachers of affiliated colleges would be initiated into Web-based education. Two years from now, teachers in affiliated colleges with a B.E. degree must complete post-graduation.

He said research activities would gather momentum after creation of infrastructure over a year. The university would first go for 10 mbps connectivity and dedicated servers. It would have an incubation centre that would provide space for IT companies, including Infosys, Wipro, and Sify, to develop communication competencies and soft skills of students.

The university set up would cope with recent shifts in higher education by switching over from physical to virtual classrooms, teacher-focussed to learner-focussed learning, and presentation mode to discovery mode. Standardised content would be replaced with individualised content. The university would facilitate learning rather than transmitting information. After studying the nature of industries and other potentialities, new region-specific programmes were on the anvil.

Technical collaboration

Possibilities of offering programmes in Fisheries Technology and Port Management would be explored. The university would have technical collaboration with world-class universities. It would channelise technology for the economic uplift of society.

Nano-technology

The university would strengthen the technical content in Tamil to expose students to nano-technology and biotechnology, and broad-base use of Tamil in technical education.

[madurai veeran]

TIRUCHI : Calibration of the glide path of the Tiruchi airport was completed on Saturday.

A special aircraft from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) carried out the calibration of the Instrument Landing System (ILS), which was relocated following the extension of the runway, on Friday and Saturday. The completion of the process will pave the way for commissioning of the extended runway and introduction of more services to the city. A similar exercise carried out last year had identified a few obstacles. The AAI team will submit a report to the headquarters soon, after which the landing procedure for the airport would be notified.

Indications are that all the required clearances, including those from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, would be obtained by March-end. Several air operators, including the Air India Express were keenly awaiting the calibration of the ILS for introduction of services. Air India Express was planning to commence operations from Tiruchi by end of March.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/11/stor...1120140300.htm

[MaduraiSelvam]

Air India Express, budget airlines, starts direct link between Trichy-Singapore and Trichy-Dubai from March 26.

http://www.dinamalar.com/

[cbeboy]

Amenities in five model railway stations to be improved


The Southern Railway has embarked on the task of improving passenger amenities and carrying out modernisation works in Tiruchi Junction, Thanjavur, Puducherry, Villupuram and Kumbakonam railway stations coming under the Tiruchi Railway Division, the Divisional Railway Manager, R.C. Jat, said on Wednesday.

Presiding over the first meeting of the newly-constituted Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee (DRUCC) held here, Mr. Jat said the above five stations had been declared as model stations, where a host of works such as improvement to circulating area, retiring and waiting rooms would be completed within six months.

Necessary improvements in passenger amenities would be made in all the 159 stations coming under the jurisdiction of Tiruchi Division in due course of time, said Mr. Jat, who is also the chairman of the DRUCC.

[madurai veeran]

TIRUCHI: Construction has begun on a new bridge across the Coleroon river for the four-lane Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway.

Two more major bridges, across the river Cauvery and the Upparu, will come up as part of the project on the Tiruchi-Padalur section of the highway.

The bridges form a major component of the project on this section, which runs 38.5 kilometres between Padalur and Mannarpuram in Tiruchi.

All the existing bridges on this section are to be strengthened to accommodate two-lane traffic on one direction and the new ones will take the traffic in the opposite direction.

Project completion

The Indu Navayuga Infrastructure Projects Private Limited, the contractor for this section of the National Highways Authority of India project, had targeted to complete the work within 24 months against the project schedule of 30 months commencing November 2006, company officials said.

The new 900-metre-long bridge across the Coleroon river, with 27 spans, is coming up adjacent to the existing bridge on the Tiruchi-Chennai Bypass Road on the outskirts of the city.

The 600-metre-long new bridge across the Cauvery will have 15 spans and the piles for the structure will be erected before the release of water for irrigation from the Mettur reservoir on June 12.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/25/stor...2514660100.htm

[cbeboy]

``Madurai, Tiruchi, Salem will also have IT parks''


All cities in Tamil Nadu will have information technology-driven development on the lines of what has happened in Chennai, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said here on Saturday.
Launching a Rs.300-crore information technology park for Coimbatore and drinking water projects, Mr. Karunanidhi said Madurai, Tiruchi and Salem too would have such parks. The Coimbatore park would provide 10,000 direct and 2,000 indirect jobs. With various schemes, including information technology parks, the Government hoped to eradicate unemployment.

[cbeboy]

IT parks now to have social infrastructure


As the Information Technology (IT) sector gets ready for take-off in Tier II cities of the State, the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) has decided to go in for social infrastructure in the proposed IT parks.

The parks will have housing, school and shopping facilities and a hospital too, if possible, says C. Umashankar, Managing Director of ELCOT.

The Corporation has acquired 195 acres in Hosur, 236 acres in Madurai, 235 acres in Tiruchi and 165 acres in Salem for IT parks. A minimum of about 200 acres is needed to have the social infrastructure along with the business facilities of the IT companies.

"In case a park gets the Special Economic Zone status, then the infrastructure can come up in the non-processing zone or on a contiguous site," he says.

A market survey on the demand for space by IT companies in Tiruchi and Hosur was done a year ago and this will be updated. "We are creating a layout diagram for all the places to accommodate the social infrastructure," adds Mr. Umashankar. Though it is proposed to standardise the design, the facilities are site-dependent.

On the demand for space by IT and IT Enabled Services (ITES) companies, he says apart from Coimbatore, the demand gained momentum during the last seven to eight months for Madurai and Tiruchi. "Hosur has an inherent demand," he adds.

[cbeboy]

Bus stand work to begin at long last


Expansion of the Central Bus Stand here is expected to commence soon, after the finalisation of the tenders for three major components of the project.

The Corporation has split the expansion work into six components but could manage to find bidders only for three works, which are under progress. But a major part of the project was stalled due to last year's tender boycott by contractors, demanding an increase in schedule of rates for raw materials, especially bitumen. The row came to an end with the government notifying the revised schedule recently.

The bids received for constructing additional bus shelters and laying roads at the recently acquired railway land adjoining the bus stand will be considered by the Corporation Council on Wednesday.

While additional bus shelters are to be constructed at a cost of Rs.65 lakh, roads would be laid at a cost of nearly Rs.1 crore. The works are expected to commence soon.

Similarly, the Corporation has finally managed to attract bidders for the expansion of the road over-bridge across the Uyyakondan river near Cantonment. Though the Corporation had called for tender on five occasions, no bids were received. Two bids have been received now after the civic body revised the estimate for the project from Rs.75 to Rs.82 lakh. The council will consider the bids also on Wednesday.

New equipment

The Corporation will spend 50 per cent of the XII Finance Commission grants for the civic body this year on strengthening its infrastructure for solid waste management. The Finance Commission has allotted Rs.3.30 crore for 2006-07 and half the allocation will be spent for purchasing vehicles and equipment for transporting solid wastes. These would include six dumper-placer trucks with containers at a cost of Rs.84 lakh to replace some of the ordinary ones in use now. The Corporation will also purchase a poclain at a cost of Rs.20 lakh.

These apart, 60 corrosion-resistant garbage containers of different sizes will be bought at a cost of about Rs.37.50 lakh. These containers are to be placed on the roadsides. The civic body will spend about Rs.24 lakh for buying 400 corrosion-resistant handcarts that are to be used in by-lanes and narrow streets.

About 1,600 high-density polyurethane garbage bins will be purchased at a cost of Rs.7.20 lakh for door-to-door collection of garbage.

While Rs.165 lakh will come from the Finance Commission grants, the Corporation will provide about Rs.8 lakh from its general funds for buying the vehicles and equipment at a total cost of Rs.172.70 lakh.

[muruspas]

http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/01/stor...0102120500.htm

Airport runway to be commissioned today

Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi Airport's extended runway will be commissioned on Thursday, paving the way for introduction of more air services to the city soon.

The runway extension project, which began in March 2004, was completed last year, except for a few ancillary works. Calibration of the glide-path of the extended runway was carried out recently. The Airports Authority of India has cleared its commissioning.

Airport sources said the extended runway would be operational with effect from 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The runway has been extended from 6,100 feet to nearly 8,000 feet at a cost of Rs.26 crore. A modern fire station has also been constructed. The commissioning of the runway, after a long wait, will give a boost to the travel trade here, as a few air operators are eyeing the Tiruchi market.

The Air India Express, a subsidiary of Air India, may launch operations on the Tiruchi-Dubai and Tiruchi-Singapore sectors from March 26. These services will be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The airlines use Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The flights will also provide connectivity to Chennai.

Kingfisher Airlines, which recently introduced services to Bangalore from here, is likely to introduce daily services between Tiruchi and Chennai in the next few days.

Mihin Lanka, a budget airline of Sri Lanka, is also planning to introduce services to Colombo from Tiruchi.

[Madurai]

Are the Trichy-Dubai/Singapore flights going to be via Chennai? Anyways, its good for Trichy and surroundings to have direct connections even if it involves a stop at Chennai.