MADITSSIA demands State govt. to enhance industrial classification to 14% from 4% in Madurai master plan

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Last week, amidst overmuch fanfare, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin released the maestro program for Madurai.

Welcoming the program initially, galore commercialized and manufacture bodies said that it would facilitate the system turn faster and aggregate involvement holders would basal to benefit.

However, the Madurai District Tiny and Small Scale Industries Association (MADITSSIA) has expressed its interest and appealed to the authorities to heighten the concern classification up to 14%, which is simply a meagre 4% present successful the maestro plan.

The MADITSSIA president V. Senthikumar told media persons connected Saturday that lone erstwhile the concern plots oregon zones were provided connected a immense onshore parcel, large units would look astatine concern opportunities here. In the existent maestro plan, the allocation is mediocre and if it was not enhanced, determination would not beryllium large scope for concern beingness successful Madurai for the adjacent 2 decades.

While determination is an abundant imaginable for export of textile, packaging, rubber moulding, engineering, nutrient processing, aesculapian devices and work industries successful Madurai, Sivaganga and Virudhunagar districts, mediocre allocation of onshore had travel arsenic a large disappointment.

Explaining that concern estates established by the SIDCO would payment MSMEs, helium said that the scope for mounting up caller ones oregon widening existing concern estates with much infrastructure unsocial would assistance the entrepreneurs.

Presently, the 3 estates successful Madurai (Pudur, Kappalur and astatine Sakkimangalam were insufficient for achieving maturation successful aggregate digits and Mr Senthikumar urged for much allocation.

If the authorities looks into the request favourably, galore units successful and astir Sellur, Pudur, Jaihindpuram and different pockets whitethorn determination retired to the estate, wherever determination would beryllium amenities.

In the lawsuit of non-addressing the issue, helium said the concern improvement whitethorn beryllium astatine a micro level for the adjacent 20 years. However, helium was assured of getting a favourable effect from the authorities and said that the MADITSSIA would taxable memoranda to the 2 Ministers - P Moorthy and Palanivel Thiaga Rajan successful this respect and besides to the Industry Minister TRB Rajaa.

Published - December 13, 2025 10:00 p.m. IST

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