Vilupuram - Industries

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Industry

Viluppuram district is developing in the industrial sector. The Sugar industry is the major industry in the district. There are 4 sugar factories at Mundiyampakkam, Periasevalai, Kacharapalliyam, Mungailthuraipattu. In the area of small schale industries there are 67 Rice mills, 17 Sago factories 5 Rice bran oil extracting units and 8 Cotton Ginning Mills. Besides this mineral water, ceramics, automobile workshop are also running in the district.

Major minerals produced, in the district includes Black granite, Blue metals, River sand etc. There is no Industrial estate in the district and when compared to the population the industrial establishments are quite inadequate to meet out the job requirement of the educated youth.

Handloom

In Viluppuram district about 34 Handloom weavers co-operative societies are existing. Out of which only 26 societies are functioning, besides 2000 individual weavers are engaging in this sector and produce silk sarees and cotton lungies. Now the societies and weavers are facing the problem of accumulated stock, high cost of production, competition from power look sector and they remained idle for most of the days.

Marketing

There are 17 regulated markets functions in this district. Besides there are 6 marketing societies, 231 PACBS, 3 formers' service societies and 3 large sized adivasi multi-purpose societies (LAMPS) functioning in the district providing Marketing support.

Electricity

Out of the total power consumed in the district about 57% goes to agriculture, about 9% goes to industry and 11% goes to domestic purposes. Besides, public works and public lighting consumed about 3.8%. There is no power Generation by Electricity Board in Viluppuram district. But the Electricity Board purchased power from two private power units located at Panchalam. There are 48 transformers distributing the electricity to the urban and rural areas.

Sericulture is being under taken in Addukam, Avalurpet, Manandal, Athipattu, Kolappalur, Kanai, Kedar, Olakkur, Melvalai, Sembiama Devi and Chinnasalem. Department supplies disease free silkworm eggs to the farmers and provide training to them in mulberry cultivation and rearing of cocoons.Marketing of cocoon is not a problem since the Department itself purchase all the cocoon and any cocoons remains could be taken to Kanakapura in Karnataka by the farmers. The Department has constructed a cold storage to keep the eggs. At present eggs are procured from Trichy, Vaniyambodi, Krishnagiri, Salem, Keelpenathur and Coimbatore. Self help Group have been involved in this sector also.

The rural poor in Viluppuram District,Tamil Nadu, with their rich skill set and adequate financial assistance from government and financial institutions, create an impressive array of exotic and useful products. However, owing to lack of adequate marketing infrastructure, many of these products remain confined to the local markets, thereby resulting in inadequate monetary returns.

While the global market remains oblivious to the creative genius of the Tamil Nadu rural producer, the producers are deprived of the good monetary returns that is assured in a global market. Rural Bazar, a new initiative from the Department of Rural Development, Government of Tamil Nadu and National Informatics Centre, envisages introducing the fine creations of the Tamil Nadu rural genius to the Internet world, thereby strengthening the rural poor. Part of this development, the Department of Rural Development Agencies(DRDA), Viluppuram and National Informatics Centre (NIC), Viluppuram has developed this site for craft loving people in Internet World.

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