The government would initiate measure to ensure that Southern Petrochemical Industries Ltd’s fertiliser plant in Tuticorin resumes operations in a month, said Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M K Azhagiri. The plant was closed in March 2007 due to mismanagement.
Speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a high learning centre at the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) here, he said he had requested Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi to promote industrial growth in southern districts including Madurai.
Towards this, an advanced tooling and plastics product development centre of CIPET would be started in Madurai.
The Chennai centre would focus on academic programmes and post graduate degrees. The high learning centre would come up on 1.5 acre at a cost of Rs 20 crore.