TAMIL NADU DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR

Jan. 20, 2019

Defence Minister Nirmala Seetharaman will formally launch the Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor on January 20, 2019.

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  • The Tamil Nadu corridor is expected to have six nodes at Trichy, Salem, Hosur, Kovai, Madurai as well as Chennai. It is expected to be a specialised facility in precision centred, aero component manufacturing. 

  • The Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor will be the country's second defence industrial corridor, the first one has already been launched in Aligarh, UP in August 2018. 

  • Both the corridors had been announced in 2018 in the budget as part of measures to indigenize defence production. 

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