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Industrialization Scopes in Thanjavur City

Scope for New Economy

Great scopes are there for Information Technology Services Esp. For Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and IT Export in Thanjavur City.
Since the Time of British Thanjavur City famous for its Best Educational System which is second best to Trinelveli.

South India's First English College:

The City's St. Peter’s school established by Rev. C. F. Schwartz in 1784. This is the first school in India in which English was taught to Indians. Wide spread of European Aided Roman Catholic Institution across the City. The City population enriched with Neutral Accent of English.

Technically Skilled Resources:

Engineering and Technical Institution/Colleges started spreading since 1980's, there are three Technical Universities including SASTRA, Periyar Maniyammai, PRIST and Plenty of Engineering Colleges in the City now generating adequate resources in Information Technology & Cross Skilled Engineering Technology Areas.
Local skilled workforce (esp female) aiming for their career within the city limits. The City's Local Female workforces have the practice of working within Home City. At present, even skilled Female workforce, due to lack of Technology Driven Employers, preferring Faculty and teaching careers in any of the Technical Universities or Institution within the City.

Gateway for 11 Municipal Towns of Integral Thanjavur District:

Thanjavur City is a Major Hub and only Gateway by Road and Rail for Tier-II cities of Tamil Nadu Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore from 4 geographical districts (Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur and Karaikal) which includes 11 Municipal Towns - Kumbakonam, Karaikal, Koothanallur, Mannargudi, Mayilladurdurai, Nagapattinam, Pattukkottai, Sirkazhi, Thiruthuraipoondi, Tiruvarur, Vedaranyam and many small towns including Adudurai, Ayyampettai, Kuttalam , Nannilam, Needamangalam, Orathanadu, Peravurani, Papanasam, Thirubuvanam, Tarangambadi, Thiruvaiyaru, Valangaiman, Veilankanni which are part of old Integral Thanjavur District which is a very rare foot for any city in Tamil Nadu.

Infrastructure & Elite Crowd

Thanjavur City well connected by Roads and Rails between the near by Tier-II cities of Tamil Nadu. 3 Nation Highways connecting Kumbakonam, Mayilladurdurai, Sirkazhi, Karaikal, Nagapattinam, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur, Thiruthuraipoondi, to Madurai, Trichirapalli and Coimbatore.

The City with Elite group of Population comprises of Doctors, Educationalists, Officials, Politicians and Heritage Tourists giving more Cult status, which is not in other Tier-III cities of Tamil Nadu. This Crowd can easily Adopt& Accept new Economy Developments.

Huge Landscape Area on 4 lane National Highway between Thanjavur to Tiruchirapalli is one of the ideal location for developing Satellite city with IT infrastructure between Thanjavur and Trichy Cities.

There are 3 Technical Universities and one NIT Trichy, a Management Institute(Gnanam Business School) in this Locality. This Large area of land is unusable for cultivation. Thanjavur City is unlike Trichy which is already congested with variety of population. Thanjavur is having great scope for accommodating population growth due to IT Infrastructure developments.
Thanjavur Railway Junction (TJ) is one of the oldest Railway Junction which having Main Line connectivity to Chennai by 5 hours reach on rails.
Thanjavur Airport (Thanjavur Air Force Station Now) handled passenger planes in 1990's which are stopped then, is capable of accommodating passenger flights. The Airport Authority of India planning to start civil aviation (passenger flights) soon.

Scope for Old Economy

Thanjavur is a rice bowl of South India, the major crops are Paddy, Sugarcane, Blackgram, Banana, Coconut, Gingelly, Ragi, Red gram, Green gram, Maize.
Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology located in Thanjavur on Madurai National Highway is testing variety of Food Corporate & Processing Technologies suites the crops cultivation and Consumers. This institutes conducting many training programs and also delivering trained Research Scholars every year.
Scopes there for implementing Agro, Food Processing, Packaging based industries, distilleries, breweries in and around the City is very much bright.

In Highways connecting Madurai via Pudukkottai, Kumbakonam via Papanasam, Pattukkottai via Orathanadu small towns are some ideal places for establishing Agro/Food based industries in Thanjavur City.

Current Status & Future Scope

Due to poor attention and industrial planning, Thanjavur is lack in old and new Economy industries now. But great scope for Implementing/Starting Industries in Large scale withCheap Labor, Cheap Land Cost, Adequate Infrastructure and Cheap Skilled Work Force.