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Apart from Elanthaikulam, a second & more prominent IT park is coming up at Vadapalanji near Madurai Kamraj University. It is also built by ELCOT on the area of 240 acres. HCL, Satyam, Sutherland, Syntel & others have received allotted land in this park. More details on the official site page of Madurai IT Park SEZ 2.

The IT park is along Madurai – Theni NH49 Extn. and have to cross Madurai – Bodi Metre Gauge railway track to reach the park. A proposal to build an overbridge across this railway track (to be converted to broad gauge soon) is under consideration.

Two SEZ IT parks are being actively developed ELCOT in Madurai.  The first one is about 29 acres plot on the ring road near madurai airport at Elanthaikulam Village.

According to ELCOT official website on Madurai IT park 1, plots were already allotted for three companies, Honeywell, HCL & Tessolve services.  Not much activity visible at the site.  A view of this site a month back as shown in Skyscraper forum.

We are used to full day power cuts once (ok, mostly twice) a month. Usually they will shut down one or two areas in the city. I have already wondered in this blog that why such full day power cuts were not done in Chennai for ‘maintenance’?

Tomorrow, it will be a 9 am to 3 pm & 9 am to 5 pm power cuts for most part of the city. The news in The Hindu. . The list seem to cover almost all areas of Madurai. They didn’t seem to leave out any local area names. If you are nostalgic and away from the city for long, go through the area names below

There will be a power shutdown in several parts of the city and surrounding areas on Saturday, May 24, owing to maintenance work to be undertaken by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board at its K. Pudur, Arasaradi, Anuppanadi, Tiruppalai, Manickampatti, Samayanallur, Teppakulam, Arapalayam and Chekkanoorani sub-stations:

From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Alagarkoil Road, Bharati Ula Road, DRO Colony, Race Course Colony, Pudur Vandipathai Road, New Natham Road, Gokhale Road, Chinna Chokkikulam,

Visalakshipuram, P. T. Rajan Road, Race Course Road, Tamukkam, Manmalaimedu, Viswanathan Road, Kurinji Nagar, Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board Apartments, Meenambalpuram, Sathiyamoorthy Nagar, Singarayar Colony, Sonayar Kovil Street, Narimedu, Kattabomman Nagar and Poonthamalli Nagar.

Arapalayam, Karimedu, Mela Ponnagaram, Simmakkal, Yanaikkal, West Masi Street, North Masi Street, West Veli Street, Bethaniapuram, Natraj Nagar, Doak Nagar, Thuvariman, Kochadai, Vilangudi, Fatima College, ESI Hospital, Thathaneri, Sammattipuram, DSP Nagar, Ellis Nagar, S. S. Colony, Duraisamy Nagar, Vanamamalai Nagar, Jai Nagar, Ram Nagar, Meenakshi Nagar, State

Bank Officers’ Colony, Subramania Pillai Street and Bypass Road.

Khanpalayam, East Gate, New Ramnad Road, Anna Nagar, Aravind Eye Hospital, Viraganur, Silaiman, Iravadanallur, Puliyankulam, Panaiyur, Chinthamani, Anuppanadi, Chinna Anuppanadi, Samanatham and Azhagapuri.

Tiruppalai, Narayanapuram, Athikulam, Valluvar Nagar, Viswanathapuram, Mahatma Gandhi Nagar, Mullai Nagar, Sivakkadu, Kulamangalam, Krishnapuram Colony, Bibikulam, Marudupandiar Nagar, Kannanendal, Surya Nagar, Kadachanendal, Oomachikulam, Alanganallur, Sugar Mill, Valayapatti, Senthamangalam, Mettupatti, Narasingam, Uthangudi, Manmalaimedu, Iyer Bungalow, Srinagar, Alagarkoil Road, Kamala Nagar, DRO Colony, Race Course Colony, Karumbalai, Lady Doak College Road, Bhulabai Desai Road, Vallabhai Road, Jawahar Road, H. A. Khan Road, Pattaraikara Road, Besant Road, Kamarajar Nagar, Pudur Vandipathai, Pudur Natham Road, Reserve Line, Chokkikulam, Chinnachokkikulam, V. P. Rathinasamy Nadar Road and Visalakshipuram.

Rajakkalpatti, Maravarpatti, Chathira Vellalapatti, Valayapatti, Errampatti, Palamedu, Konapatti, Chinnapalamedu, Manickampatti, Senthamangalam, Kovilpatti, Azhagapuri, Ayyur and Kallanai.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Samayanallur, Thenur, Tiruvedagam, Sholavandan, Melakkal, Nagari, Adalai, Paravai, Podumbu, Alanganallur, T. Mettupatti, Oorseri, Azhapuri and Vavidamarudur.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Teppakulam, Adaikalam Pillai Colony, New Ramanathapuram Road, Teppakulam West, Kamarajar Road (up to East Gate), Pankajam Colony, Anuppanadi-Teppam Road, Anuppanadi East and West, Pagalavan Nagar, Meenakshi Nagar, New Meenakshi Nagar, CMR Road, Chinnakanmai, Indira Nagar, Old Kuyavarpalayam Road, Lakshmipuram Street 1 to 6, Khanpalayam Street 1 and 2, Pacharisikara Thoppu, Balarengapuram, Mynah Teppam Street 1 to 3 and Krishnapuram.

Arasaradi, AA Road, Arapalayam, Mela Ponnagaram, Karimedu, Ponnagaram, Ellis Nagar, Mahaboobpalayam, Visuvasapuri, Mani Nagaram, Workshop Road, Kanagavel Colony, Attu Manthai Pottal, Simmakkal, North Veli Street, Raja Mill Road, Scott Road and West Perumal Maistry Street.

Chekkanoorani, K. Puliyankulam, Panniyan, Kinnimangalam, Mavilipatti, Moonandipatti, A. Kokkulam, Karumathur, Kannanur, Sakkilipatti, Kovilankulam, Poochampatti, Jothimanickam, Vadapalanji, Thenpalanji and Palkalai Nagar.

UPDATE:
The power-cut was implemented as mentioned. Electricity promptly went off by 9AM. and back by 5PM in most places.

I couldn’t resist posting this link. Even though the pictures were taken in Chennai, the situations were too similar to our city. I take it for granted to see whole families on a motorcycle in city roads. I have also carried kids like this.

This blog post was made in 2006 but very much contemporary. Have a look at wonderful 5-part series by Basia.

Last friday was just a usual hot summer dog day. But suddenly there were clouds and had ‘Alankatti’ (ice rain) rain in the evening coupled with gutsy winds. It lasted for about 2 hours, uprooting trees and twigs on most part of the city. The Sholavandan road which is notable for shaded trees had many trees falling & disrupting power lines.

But the most unexpected thing is the crashing down of fifth Platform roof on railway junction. It’s a new shelter on right end. I visited the fifth platform just the day before to see off a relative. The new roof was on the extended platform which is exposed to strong side winds.  But still it’s a wonder that new one crashes while the older ones are intact.

Much to the relief of Maduraiites, the bridge from Periyar bus stand to Railway station west entry is opened. It’s wider than the old bridge and eases the traffic to a great extent.

The other half from Periyar bus stand to Ellis Nagar is still under construction. Once completed, it will be a 4 track bridge and relives congestion on western side.

As Chennai, Erode and other corporations go for stone walled 3 feet medians on arterial roads, Madurai too is starting to build such medians on Alagarkoil road (at Goripalayam).

These are nice looking barriers, but unlike other cities, sand started collecting at the edge of the road closer to stone wall.  As the foreign lady once observed, ‘Madurai roads disappearing into dirt on either side’.