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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated Phase 2 of Pinnacle Infotech’s Global Engineering Centre of Excellence successful Madurai connected Saturday (February 21, 2026).
On the occasion, the Chief Minister besides laid the instauration chromatic for a lodging task designed to supply accommodation for astir 1,200 employees successful the beingness of Information Technology and Digital Services Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Ministers K.N. Nehru, P. Moorthy, I. Periasamy, Thangam Thennarasu, and K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, and Pinnacle Infotech CEO and co-founder Bimal Patwari.
ELCOT Managing Director K.P. Karthikeyan, Madurai District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, and elder officials from assorted departments attended.
Mr. Patwari said that successful this epoch of disruption, wherever AI and automation are fundamentally transforming engineering, Pinnacle is starring the complaint globally. With 2,000 jobs already generated, the fig is expected to treble to 4,000 professionals. Such a installation successful Madurai would alteration the institution to present high-quality integer outcomes for the world’s astir analyzable infrastructure projects straight from India, positioning Tamil Nadu arsenic a planetary engineering and integer operation hub.
Science Centre opened
The Chief Minister besides inaugurated the Ankuran Science Centre, which offers schoolchildren hands-on entree to precocious subject education. Officials said that the state-of-the-art installation and simulation labs would pave the mode for bridging the spread betwixt world learning and manufacture excellence.
The caller Centre tin service implicit 11,000 students from assorted schools, fostering innovation done experiential subject learning.
Earlier, Mr. Stalin was accorded a rousing reception astatine the Madurai airdrome from wherever helium drove to the IT Park astatine Vadapalanchi.
