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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin volition laic the instauration chromatic for the Knowledge City successful Tiruvallur territory connected Thursday (January 29).
The Knowledge City has been conceived arsenic a abstraction to beforehand innovation, knowledge, and probe by bringing unneurotic universities, probe labs, and research-oriented industries successful a collaborative ecosystem, said Sandeep Nanduri, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), the nodal bureau for the project.
In the archetypal phase, TIDCO plans to physique classrooms, pupil housing, stadiums, sports facilities, and commercialized facilities connected 870 acres of land. The anchor task of the Knowledge City would beryllium a one-lakh-square-feet Knowledge Tower wherever plug-and-play facilities would beryllium built to alteration overseas universities to relation retired of. “We already person bookings for astir each the facilities,” Mr. Nanduri added.
The State is each acceptable to motion Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with 8 planetary universities that person expressed involvement successful mounting up a field successful the State. They volition beryllium portion of the ambitious Tamil Nadu Knowledge City task that is projected to beryllium built successful Tiruvallur territory adjacent Chennai.
The MoUs with universities from the U.S., Europe, and Australia volition beryllium signed successful the backdrop of the two-day India Global Education Summit 2026, jointly organised by the Tamil Nadu Government and National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU), U.K., which began connected Wednesday.
