TN to set up state-of-the-art auto city in 1,000 hectares of land

Chennai:

Tamil Nadu government will set up an Auto City, a state-of-the-art industrial park as a joint venture spread over 1000 hectares in the state.

According to the Tamil Nadu Automobile and Auto Components Policy 2014, the Auto City would be set up by a proposed Automotive Industrial Development Centre.

The auto city would cater to domestic and global automotive or component design, prototyping, manufacturing and manufacturing units for cars buses and derivatives besides earthmoving equipments, machined auto components, castings and forgings and cold rolled Close Annealed (CRCA) rolling and servicing.

The auto city will serve automotive and components companies catering to export markets. It will have a logistics hub to provide with multimodal transport including appropriate equipment for safe and efficient handling.

The policy document says that the auto city will also have design and technology park where common facilities will be created for use by all auto or component units besides it will have common infrastructure such as drainage or effluent treatment or solid waste management and utilities including power, gas and water.

The auto city would also have shared capabilities to meet staffing and training requirements, prototyping requirements, testing facilities, scrap management facilities, effluent and hazardous waste management facilities. It will also have shared infrastructure facilities for metal forming, surface treatment, die handling and maintenance