Reviving the long proposed Madurai- Tuticorin industrial corridor will address the regional imbalances in growth in the state. Industry is expecting that the state budget to be presented on March 18 will kickstart the project. With five million micro, small and medium enterprises, Tamil Nadu is...
Chennai City Football Club and Bollywood are looking to cash in on NFTs craze; and Tamil Nadu’s cryptocurrency startups are growing. In an Inteview, TNeGA Blockchain head Ishan Roy explains what the Budget announcement of digital assets tax means for them.
In the nine months it has been in power, the DMK government has announced a welfare schemes and borrowed more money but has done little to institute structural reforms and rev up TN economy. The strengths and weaknesses of a state economy are often well known. Tamil Nadu is no exception. But...
Here’s what the railways can do to transform itself and regain supremacy among the transport systems, thereby contributing more to the GDP
The historic Pamban Rail Bridge connecting Rameswaram Island to mainland India is soon going to be replaced by a new one.
High transmission loss and poor monitoring of free farm power are crippling a state with otherwise high potential for power generation. Tamil Nadu must make use of the budget clause that allows borrowings to bridge fiscal deficit of up to 0.5% of GSDP, for power sector reforms.
To run 400 Vande Bharat trains in three years, railways must overcome delay in parts procurement, increase output of coach factories.
Chief Economic Adviser Anantha Nageswaran wants less regulation, more district-level delivery mechanisms, and has defended demonetization.
Sterlite needed about 700 acres to build Unit 2 of its existing copper smelter plant. After the government allotted it 324.5 acres in Thoothukudi’s SIPCOT Phase 2, the company had sought more land for the expansion. Now, the extra land sought for the purpose has been re-allotted to an International Furniture Park, putting a spoke in the wheel of Sterlite’s expansion.
Chennai is already an automobile manufacturing hub, where most car companies as well as two-wheeler Electric Vehicles, are made. As the city already has a car manufacturing plant ready to go as well as a major port, Tesla would do well to bring its business here.
