The Hindu : Silk cotton, cashew coops for Andipatti

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Saturday, Apr 13, 2002

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Southern States - Tamil Nadu

Silk cotton, cashew coops for Andipatti

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI April 12. The State Government will set up a silk cotton industrial service cooperative society and a cashew industrial service cooperative society in Andipatti, constituency of the Chief Minister.

Both the societies will be located at Thangammalpuram, the Rural Industries Minister, R. Vilwanathan, announced in the Assembly today.

Also, land for the formation of three of the five industrial estates in Madurai, Tiruchi and Chennai was ``ready'' and they would be ``inaugurated soon''. For the Salem and Coimbatore estates, land acquisition was in progress.

The Government was undertaking a survey of all smallscale industries and tiny industries to develop a database for being ``eventually used for e-commerce''. The Small Industries Development Corporation would be entrusted with this work. A pilot project study by the SIDCO in Kancheepuram district showed that of 18,000 registered units only 8,000 were functioning. The others had to close because of the ``anti-SSI policies'' of the DMK Government, Mr. Vilwanathan charged.

To a question by H.M. Raju (Congress) on cartelisation of the tea auction process in the Nilgiris, the Minister said the Government was taking steps to ``effectively plug the loopholes in the auction system'' and form an auction centre on its own, if necessary. ``The Government is moving the Centre for supply of south Indian tea to the defence forces. Sale of tea to the defence forces can stabilise prices to the benefit of small growers in the Nilgiris.''

Earlier, Congress members staged a walk out as the Speaker did not allow the party to raise the issue of Valparai plantation labourers.

The CPI(M), which was also not allowed to raise the issue of ``lack of progress'' in the investigations into the March 13 murder of the Iduvai panchayat president, Rathnasamy, also walked out.

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