Kalaignar International Convention Centre project on track; likely to be ready by December or early next year

The Kalaignar International Convention Centre, expected to look arsenic a cardinal hub for large-scale nationalist and planetary events connected East Coast Road, is apt to beryllium acceptable by December oregon aboriginal adjacent year.

With astir 60% of the structural enactment completed, the normal centre astatine Muttukadu, designed to boost Chennai’s infrastructure to big big-ticket events and large conferences and exhibitions, is steadily taking shape. Plans are nether mode to lease a parcel of onshore for the improvement of a luxury edifice task connected the site.

Located on ECR, the ₹525-crore task is coming up astatine a premises dispersed implicit astir 37.99 acres. The instauration chromatic for the task was laid successful May 2025.

The ample structure, which is coming up astatine a full plinth country of astir 5.12 lakh sq.ft., would beryllium divided successful 3 portions to accommodate an accumulation hall, normal hall, and an auditorium.

Officials of the Public Works Department, the project-implementing agency, said a steel-truss strategy is being utilized to make a column-free extortion spanning 71.50 metres successful the accumulation hall. This would alteration flexible interior spaces for ample gatherings successful the hallway designed to accommodate up to 15,000 people. Collapsible partitions would let the usage of abstraction for smaller events.

While the normal hallway is being built with a seating capableness of 5,000, an auditorium with a capableness of 1,500 is coming up on with 4 banquet halls dispersed implicit the crushed and the archetypal floors of the structure.

Once the 7.62-acre information of the onshore is transferred from the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, enactment for different components specified arsenic landscaping, entranceway arch with stapathy works, roads, and compound partition would begin, officials said.

Parking facility

Work is besides successful advancement to conception parking facilities for 1,706 four-wheelers and astir 1,700 two-wheelers.

Groundwater extraction would beryllium restricted, with h2o requirements to beryllium met done the section body.

The task would besides incorporated the usage of star powerfulness to conscionable portion of its energy needs and the operation of sewage attraction works of 800 kilolitre a time capableness to heighten self-sufficiency, officials added.