Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur, located in proximity to Chennai, is a town in the Kanchipuram district of Tamilnadu, India. On 21st May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi, the then former Prime Minister of India was assassinated by a human bomb in Sriperumbudur. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering is located near Sriperumbudur. It is the birth place of Sri Ramanuja , one of the most prominent Hindu Vaishnava saint. There is a temple of Lord Vishnu at his birth place now.
Sriperumbudur has been an attraction for major electronic and hardware manufacturing companies as they have started setting up shops in the past few months. It all began with Nokia, the Finnish telecom major setting up a Telecom SEZ, first of its kind in the country at a cost of $ 100 million, along with all of its major suppliers. The unit has already begun production, and the company plans to pump-in another $ 150 million into the project. Following suit was the US-based Flextronics, which offers electronic manufacturing services (EMS), committing $ 100 million, for an industrial park, which would manufacture telecom equipments including handsets.
The recent entrants were that of the Taiwan-based Honhai-Foxconn – the world's second largest EMS manufacturer and US-based Motorola for making handsets. It all began with the Nokia and Flextronics, and then a naturally created manufacturing hub for electronics, which then pulled in the other companies.
Sriperumbudur is strategically placed on the Chennai-Bangalore highway, just about 40 kilometers from the main city, and offers all that the international giants want to get their business running in the country. The industrial infrastructure facilities are being constructed as the companies are also in the process of setting up their units. With good highways and infrastructure and not that too far from the city, these companies prefer a place like Sriperumbudur, as it offers all the facilities what they want. Sriperumbudur is already becoming a strong case for being developed into a satellite township.
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Hyundai cars are manufactured here.Nokia has set up a production center here. Saint Gobain manufactures floating glass here.Vellakotai Murugan temple is just about 9kms away from Sriperumbudur, where u can find the tallest Murugan statue in India.