TRICHY: Tidel Park Limited, the state-owned joint venture of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) and Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), has paid Rs 12.8 crore to Trichy corporation to prepare the land identified for the park in Panjapur for beginning preliminary construction work by January end.
While a tender for construction of phase I of the premium IT office space at Rs 415 crore was already floated, Tidel management recently made the payment to the urban local body to shift two underground drainage (UGD) pipelines passing through the site identified for Trichy Tidel park.
City corporation sources said 14.1 acre of land on Trichy-Madurai NH, adjacent to the upcoming integrated bus terminus (IBT), has been allocated to Tidel management for building the park in two phases.
As the anaerobic pond of the old sewage treatment plant (STP) of 58mld capacity is situated behind, two main UGD lines carrying sewage from UGD pumping stations at Anna stadium and Othakkadai pass through the Tidel park site.
The Tidel management which has decided to launch construction work by January end has approached Trichy corporation to shift the UGD lines from the site. “Preliminary work will commence soon and we have paid Trichy corporation to relocate the sewage lines at the earliest. Phase I of Trichy Tidel park will have a built up area of 5.5 lakh square feet and ground plus six floors,” a source in Tidel said. Construction work may take 18 months and the facility could generate employment for more than 5,000 people.
“Around 1,730 metre-long sewage pipelines crossing the Tidel site will be shifted. Tidel has paid the entire cost of shifting the pipelines in December 2024,” a Trichy corporation official added. Existing reinforced cement concrete (RCC) pipelines are to be shifted outside the park site to launch preliminary work in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, as a new 100mld modern STP is under construction at Panjapur, the old STP and anaerobic ponds near Tidel park and IBT Panjapur sites will be dismantled by 2026 before commissioning of the park, corporation sources added.
