The Hindu Business Line : TEA plea for Tirupur dist

THE Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA) has petitioned to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, to carve out Tirupur as a separate district, considering its economic potential as an export centre and the growth needs of Tirupur and its adjoining areas.

The growing volume of international business from Tirupur had earned a unique place for it in the global business map which in turn had created the necessity for forming a separate Tirupur district to which the overlapping areas of adjoining districts could be ceded, the TEA said in a memorandum presented to the Chief Minister during the latter's visit to the knitwear centre.

The association said the soaring crime rate witnessed in the region had now necessitated shifting of the police headquarters out of Coimbatore. It also wanted the State Government to move the existing office of the Superintendent of Police (rural) in Coimbatore to Tirupur, in case if the Government was unable to proceed immediately on its request to create a new Tirupur district for administrative reasons.

The exporters' body also called upon Ms Jayalalithaa to prevail upon the Union Government to allow two per cent of the FOB value of shipments made from Tirupur towards infrastructure development fund.

The association felt that with the Tamil Nadu Government passing the Essential Services Bill, the State might prove an attractive investment destination.

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