400 acres identified for defence park

Coimbatore: The State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Sipcot) has identified 400 acres belonging to a private company in Sulur for the defence park.
District revenue department officials have sent a proposal to the Commissionerate of Land Administration (CLA) office in Chennai to acquire the land.
The land belongs to Bengaluru-based Dynamatic Technologies Limited.The firm had acquired a 12MW wind farm in Varapatti village at Sulur taluk in September 2008 from Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Limited. The farm comprises 48 windmills on 440 acres of freehold land.
A revenue department official said, “Sipcot officials from Chennai have already inspected the land. We have sent a proposal to the CLA office recently for the land acquisition process and are awaiting the reply. Sipcot will take care of the land acquisition expenses.”
M V Ramesh Babu, president, Coimbatore District Small Industries Association, told TOI that the private firm was ready to handover the land to Sipcot to set up the defence park. “If Sipcot brings two major players in the defence sector to the park, the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the district would get a lot of job orders and it will create a lot of job opportunities.”
He said MSME players were also ready to set up their units in the defence park. “Our members are manufacturing various components in the district for the defence sector.”
Ramesh Babu said the industrial sectors were gradually recovering from the pandemic impact and the projects like the defence park would help spur the growth of MSMEs.