1 G o v e r n m e n t o f I n d i a M i n i s t r y o f M S M E Brief Industrial Profile of KARUR District 2 0 1 2 - 1 3 Carried out by M S M E - D e v e l o p m e n t I n s t i t u t e , C h e n n a i (Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India,) Phone Tel:044-22501011- 3 Fax: 044-22501014 E-mail: [email protected] Web- www.msmedi-chennai.gov.in/ 2 CONTENTS S. No. Topic Page No. 1. General Characteristics of the District 1 1.1 Location & Geographical Area 2 1.2 Topography 2 1.3 Availability of Minerals. 4 1.4 Forest 5 1.5 Administrative set up 5 2. District at a glance 6 2.1 Existing Status of Industrial Area in the District Karur 8 3. Industrial Scenario Of Karur 8 3.1 Industry at a Glance 8 3.2 Year Wise Trend Of Units Registered 9 3.3 Details Of Existing Micro & Small Enterprises & Artisan 10 Units In The District 3.4 Large Scale Industries / Public Sector undertakings 11 3.5 Major Exportable Item 11 3.6 Growth Trend 11 3.7 Vendorisation / Ancillarisation of the Industry 11 3.8 Medium Scale Enterprises 11 3.8.1 List of the units in Karur & near by Area 11 3.8.2 Major Exportable Item 13 3.9 Service Enterprises 13 3.9.2 Potentials areas for service industry 13 3.10 Potential for new MSMEs 13 4. Existing Clusters of Micro & Small Enterprise 15 4.1 Detail Of Major Clusters 15 4.1.1 Manufacturing Sector 15 4.1.2 Service Sector 15 4.2 Details of Identified cluster 16 5. General issues raised by industry association during the 16 course of meeting 6 Steps to set up MSMEs 17 KARUR 1 BRIEF INDUSTRIAL PROFILE OF KARUR DISTRICT 1. General Characteristic of the District. Karur Taluk, which was once a part of Coimbatore district, was merged with Tiruchirappalli district during 1910. A separate Karur district was formed on 30th September 1995 by trifurcating Tiruchirappalli district. Initially, Karur District was carved out of the composite Tiruchirapalli district, consisting of three taluks namely, Karur, Kulithalai and Manaparai. Subsequently Manaparai Taluk was decoupled and Musiri Taluk was included in Karur District. Later Musiri Taluk was decoupled from Karur District. Karur District, with headquarters at Karur, is the most centrally located district of Tamil Nadu. It’s about 371 km south west of Chennai (Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu. Karur district is bounded by Namakkal District in the north, Dindigul District in the south, Tiruchirapalli District on the east and Erode District on the west. District Collector is the Head of the District administration and District Collector's Office is the centre of District Administration situated in Master Plan Complex in Thanthondrimalai. It is nearly 6 Km from Karur bus stand and 8 Km from Railway Station on the way to Dindigul via Vellianai. Karur district has 2 Revenue Divisions, 4 Taluks, 2 Municipalities, 13 Town Panchayats and 158 Village Panchayats and 203 Revenue Villages. Karur District has 4 Assembly constituencies of which one is a reserved namely Krishnarayapuram Constituency. Karur Parliamentary constitutes 6 Assembly constituencies, 2 are from Tiruchirappalli revenue district, namely Marungapuri and Thottiam and 4 Assembly Constituencies from Karur. The district is potential in its economical status due to its flourishing industrial activity. It brings about nearly 1,400 Crore of foreign Money and about a marketing gravity of Rs.2,350 Crore in the inter District and States per annum. This district offers day to day employment opportunities to the people at a radius of circumference of 80 Kmrs of which the major benefits are due to the weaker sections. Current employment generation of the district is 50,230 Nos and CULTURE: The fragrance of industrial knowledge of Coimbatore belt with literary knowledge of Tiruchirapalli belt is smelt in the soil along with Sincere and hard work spreaded everywhere. People of all states of Nation and people of all districts of the State found placed in this district engaging in their industrial activity. 2 ECONOMY: The district is potential in its economical status due to its flourishing industrial activity. It brings about nearly 1,400 Crore of foreign Money and about a marketing gravity of Rs.2,350 Crore in the inter District and States per annum. EMPLOYMENT: This district offers day to day employment opportunities to the people at a radius of circumference of 80 Kmrs of which the major benefits are due to the weaker sections. Current employment generation of the district is 50,230 Nos and this employment generation is increasing sizably due to the development after the formation of the district 1.1 Location and Geographical Area: The Karur District is centrally located inland district lying between 10.45” to 11.45” Northern latitude and 77.45” to 78.07” Eastern longitude. The boundaries of the District are Namakkal district in the North, Dindugal district In the south, Erode district in the west and Thiruchirappalli district in the east. Area of the Karur district is 2895.57 Sq.Kms. This District is located in NH7 road connecting south and north Terminals of Indian Nation. It is situated in the centre in between Manchester city (Coimbatore) by west to Paddy land at East (Tanjore), and Steel city by North (Salem) to temple city at south (Madurai). Namakkal,Dindigul,Erode, and Tiruchirapalli are the boundary Districts 1.2 Topography: The Topography of the district is almost plain except Rengamalai hills in extreme south of Karur Taluk. Tipasamymalai & Vellimalai hills in Kulithalai Taluk. Cauvery is the Major river flowing on northern and eastern boundaries. Amaravathi runs through Karur and Confluences with Cauveery at Nerur. There are Kudaganaru, Narganji Aru which flow during rainy days. The soils are generally sandy loam and Clay type. But large areas are under red soil and black cotton soil. The average rainfall is 683.5mm. Major rainfall occurs during north east monsoon only. 1 Karur District Taluks 4 1.3 Availability of Minerals: The Karur District is comprised with khondolite and charnockite group of rocks, both constituting the Eastern Ghat super group of Archaean age. The khondolite group comprises sillimanite gneiss with or without garnet, calc granulite and crystalline limestone, while the charnockite group includes magnetite quartzite with or without grunerite, basic granulite and charnockite. They were all formed due to granulite facies grade metamorphism of preexisting aluminous, calcareous, silicious sediments and basic flows. Low grade to Cement grade limestone is found extensively at Kulithalai Taluk (Thevarmalai, Melapaguthi, Varavanai, Vellalapatti, Keeranur, Pothuravutham patti, Kalladai, Kaliyapatti etc., villages), at Aravakurichi Taluk (Esanatham, Ammapadi. Alamarathupatti, Thennilai etc., villages) and K.Pitchampatti of Karur Taluk. The limestone is being used at Cement industries, as fillers in the fertilizer and in the cem factories. Presently 30 leases are existing at Karur District. Milky to glassy variety of Quartz and Potash feldspar with an average of 12% potash is the common economic mineral available extensively at Aravakurichi Taluk (Pungambadi-West, Nagampalli, Punjaikalakurichi, Pavithram, Soodamani, Venjamangudalur (East), Aravakurichi, Kodanthur (South), Rajapuram, Kodaiyur etc., villages) less prominently at Kulithalai Taluk (D.Edayapatti, Sengal, Varavanai, Pannapatti, Vadavambadi etc., Villages) and at Karur Taluk (Velliyanai- South Village). High grade Quartz is being exported, low grade used in the manufacture of glass and Feldspar in the ceramic and tile manufacturing industries. Presently 42 leases are existing at Karur District. Apart from the above good quality of Gem variety such as Ruby (cordierite in the cordierite sillimanite gneiss) and beryl (acquamarine in the pegmatite vein in acicular shapes) are the common man’s hunt at Keeranur, Muthunaickenpatti, Varavanai and Pannapatti villages of Kulithalai Taluk. Other gem variety such glassy crystallised quartz, amythist and moonstone (catseye) etc., are also prevalent. GRANITE There are good quality of hard rocks which are particularly available at Kulithalai and Aravakurichi Taluks. But the rocks available at Thogamalai, Naganur, Kalugur and Porunthalur of Kulithalai Taluk are of export worthy and they are being operated for the extraction of granite blocks both by M/s.TAMIN and private companies. 5 ROUGHSTONE AND SAND The Charnockite rocks are found to occur in K.Paramathi, Punnam areas etc., which are exploited to produce building materials and road metals. The river sand of Amaravathi and Cauvery finds very good market in the adjacent districts. PRODUCTION OF MINERAL 2010-2011 NAME OF MINERAL RODUCTION IN TONES 2010-2011 1 LIMESTONE 57135 2 ROUGH STONE 86000 Unit 3 QUARTZ 13440 4 FELDSPAR 4200 5 MAGNESITE 1200 6 DOLOMITE 1250 1.4 Forest The total forest area of Karur District is 6187 Hectares. 1.5. Administration set up: Karur district has 2 Revenue Divisions, 5 Taluks, 8 blocks, 2 Municipalities, 13 Town Panchayats and 158 Village Panchayats and 203 Revenue Villages. Karur District has 4 Assembly constituencies of which one is a reserved namely Krishnarayapuram Constituency. Karur Parliamentary constitutes 6 Assembly constituencies, 2 are from Tiruchirappalli revenue district, namely Marungapuri and Thottiam and 4 Assembly Constituencies from Karur. Name of the Name of the Name of the Revenue Division Taluks Panchayat Union Karur Karur Karur Thanthoni Aravakurichi Aravakurichi K.Paramathi Krishnarayapuram Krishnarayapuram 6 Kulithalai Kulithalai Kulithalai Thogamalai Kadavur Kadavur Municipality: 1. Karur 2. Inamkarur 3. Thanthoni 4. Kulithali 2.DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Particulars Statistics Geographical features Geographical Data 2895.57Sq.Kms i)Latitude 10.45”to11.45” North ii)Longitude 77.45” to 78.07 East iii)Geographical Area Administrative Units i)Sub divisions 2 ii)Tehsils 5 iii)Sub - Tehsil - iv)Patwar Circle - v)Panchayat Simitis 10 vi) Nagar nigam 4 vii) Nagar Palika 11 viii) Gram Panchayats 158 xi) Revenue villages 203 x) Assembly Area Population Sex-wise i)Male 534392 ii) Female 542196 Rural Population 642415 Agriculture Land Utilization i)Total Area 2010-2011 289557Hec.