T.N. Rising Summit in Madurai sees 91 MoUs, Stalin says focus is on uniform development

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) underscored the Tamil Nadu Government’s committedness to azygous and regionally balanced development, announcing that the State has attracted ₹11.38 lakh crore successful committed investments implicit the past 4 years, creating 34 lakh jobs.

Speaking astatine the T.N. Rising Summit successful Madurai, helium said the conclave had resulted successful the signing of 91 MoUs entailing a cumulative concern of ₹36,660 crore, marking a large measurement successful the government’s program to accelerate concern maturation successful the confederate districts.

Highlighting the absorption connected balanced development, Mr. Stalin said, “Our effort to alteration the Madurai portion into an concern hub done the instauration of 56,766 caller jobs is portion of our committedness of ensuring azygous improvement crossed the State-dispersed improvement successful each district.”

He noted that attracting concern required much than governmental entreaty from the Chief Minister. “Investors analyse policies, quality assets skills, infrastructure, instrumentality and order, administrative efficiency, and semipermanent stableness earlier choosing a location. I instrumentality pridefulness successful Tamil Nadu becoming their archetypal choice,” helium said.

Mr. Stalin said his authorities has taken respective initiatives to bring the confederate portion connected par with different regions successful presumption of concern progress. Among the large projects, helium highlighted the PM MITRA Integrated Textile Park coming up successful Virudhunagar district, developed jointly with the Union Government astatine a outgo of ₹1,894 crore implicit 1,052 acres. Once functional, the parkland is expected to make astir 1 lakh jobs and modernise the State’s textile sector.

He besides listed a bid of ongoing and upcoming initiatives successful the region: a communal engineering parkland and a mega nutrient parkland successful Theni district; allotment of onshore for concern parks successful Sivaganga — 108 acres successful Iluppaikudi and 102 acres successful Kazhanivasal; and a ₹314-crore TIDEL Park successful Madurai, and TIDEL NEO parks successful Sivaganga, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, and Kanniyakumari. Besides, an airdrome has been projected successful Ramanathapuram.

He added that earlier investors’ conferences successful Thoothukudi, Hosur, and Coimbatore had collectively secured astir ₹1 lakh crore successful assured investments, portion the Madurai league unsocial had attracted 186 projects crossed sectors including shipbuilding, electronics, nutrient processing, and non-leather footwear.

Among the projects highlighted was the Taiwanese institution Pei Hai, which is mounting up a non-leather footwear manufacturing portion successful the upcoming SIPCOT Industrial Park successful Madurai, generating 15,000 jobs, with precedence for section women workers.

He besides noted that the MoU signed with Hyundai for a shipbuilding task successful Thoothukudi has placed Tamil Nadu astatine the forefront of the sector.

In the acquisition sector, Mr. Stalin announced the constitution of the Tamil Nadu University Research Park Foundation to fortify industry–academia collaboration. In the Madurai region, a University Research Park is being developed successful concern with Madurai Kamaraj University and different institutions, with ₹13 crore arsenic archetypal backing and ₹2.25 crore allocated for applied probe grants.

During the summit, the Chief Minister besides released the Madurai Master Plan 2044, prepared by the Directorate of Town and Country Planning for a projected colonisation of 42 lakh.

Ministers Thangam Thenarasu (Finance), T.RB. Rajaa (Industries), K.N. Nehru (Municipal Administration), E.V. Velu (Public Works), K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran (Revenue and Disaster Management), K.R. Periakaruppan (Cooperation), R.S. Rajakannappan (Forests), P. Moorthy (Commercial Taxes and Registration), Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (Information Technology and Digital Services), Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan, among others, participated.