Union Minister for chemicals and fertilisers M K Azhagiri said steps would be taken to ensure that the fertiliser company Southern Petrochemical Industries Ltd’s (SPIC) plant in Tuticorin that had shut production will be reopened within a month.
Speaking at the foundation stone- laying ceremony of a high learning centre(HLC) at Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) here, the Union Minister said that he had requested Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi to promote industrial growth in southern districts including Madurai, his constituency.
As steps towards the promotion, he told that an advanced tooling and plastics product development centre of CPIET would be started in Madurai.
He also said that he had requested M F Farooqui, the principal secretary, industries department of the government of Tamil Nadu, to give approval to start some industries in southern districts including a proposed granite company in the location of a shutdown spinning mill in Melur near Madurai.
In his address, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Government of India, Bijoy Chatterjee said CIPET was emerging as an academic, technology and research institution of excellence and the Chennai centre would be the first to get the HLC that would focus on academic programmes and post graduate degrees.
The high learning centre would be built at a cost of Rs 20 crore in the land area of 1.5 acre with built-up area of 12682 Sq meter.