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T oy Manufacturer Veva Toys to Create 5,000 Jobs in Tiruvallur with 90% Women Workforce

Chennai:

 Veva Toys Global will invest ₹1,000 crore to set up an electronics toy manufacturing facility in Tiruvallur, creating 5,000 jobs, with the company's workforce expected to be 90 per cent women.

The investment reflects the government's stated focus on inclusive industrial growth, with women-led shop floors increasingly forming part of Tamil Nadu's manufacturing expansion story.

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writingonblog uncensored: Tamil Nadu strengthens semiconductor ecosystem wit...: Chennai: Tamil Nadu is deepening its semiconductor and advanced electronics ecosystem with a new pipeline of investments spanning semiconduc...

Tamil Nadu strengthens semiconductor ecosystem with fresh investment pipeline

Chennai:

Tamil Nadu is deepening its semiconductor and advanced electronics ecosystem with a new pipeline of investments spanning semiconductor equipment, bonding materials, reliability testing, chip design and manufacturing support.

Among the key projects, Kinesis Semiconductor Wire Solutions plans to invest ₹193 crore in Chennai to establish what the project note describes as India’s first localised semiconductor bonding-wire manufacturing facility. The project is aimed at strengthening domestic supply chains for a critical material used in semiconductor packaging.

Bigpro Solutions is investing ₹443 crore in Krishnagiri to establish an independent reliability and failure-testing laboratory compliant with MIL-STD-883, the US military standard for microelectronic testing. The facility is expected to support reliability assessment of semiconductor and electronic components.

Richport Technology, meanwhile, is investing ₹130 crore in precision cleaning and surface-treatment capabilities for semiconductor equipment manufacturers, adding another link to the emerging local supply chain.

The pipeline also includes Avalon Technologies’ ₹1,000-crore project for semiconductor equipment and advanced electronics manufacturing, along with PTW Semiconductor’s ₹250-crore investment in semiconductor equipment build, assembly and new product development.

Taken together, the projects indicate a widening of Tamil Nadu’s semiconductor ambitions beyond chip fabrication into packaging materials, equipment, testing, precision engineering and other parts of the supply chain.

The investments come as the state seeks to build an integrated semiconductor and electronics manufacturing ecosystem, positioning Tamil Nadu to capture a larger share of the global supply chain for high-value electronic components and manufacturing services.

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Tamil Nadu fuel retailers threaten to halt digital payments over account freezes

CHENNAI:

Petrol pump operators in Tamil Nadu are threatening to stop accepting UPI and other digital wallet payments across the state, citing a growing risk of arbitrary bank account freezes and police action arising from disputed transactions linked to cybercrime investigations.

TNPDA president KP Murali, who wrote a letter to Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, said dealers were being treated as suspects in cybercrime cases despite having no means of verifying the identity or source of funds of customers who pay digitally. The association's roughly 5,000-odd outlets across Tamil Nadu process between 200 and 500 digital transactions a day on average, with digital payments now accounting for more than half of revenue at some stations, according to the letter.

Murali said banks were placing liens on dealers' accounts, and in some cases freezing entire operating accounts, on instructions from cyber-crime authorities investigating disputed transactions — actions he called disproportionate to the underlying disputes. He also cited cases of dealers being picked up during early morning hours and held for questioning without being told the specifics of the transaction under investigation.

The dealers took up digital payments at the urging of public-sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) after demonetisation, in line with the central government's push toward a cashless economy, he said. Platforms cited include Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm.

TNPDA is not opposing cybercrime investigations, Murali said, but is asking the state government to require police and cyber-crime units to give dealers written details of disputed transactions and communicate formally before taking coercive action; to confine any lien or account freeze to the disputed amount rather than the full operating account; and to issue directives against detaining dealers absent evidence of direct wrongdoing. The association has also asked for a standard operating procedure for handling disputed digital transactions at fuel retail outlets, and has requested a meeting with the Chief Minister's office.

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