Need to Avinashi Road

The Confederation of Indian Industry, Coimbatore, has said development of Avinashi Road is imperative for planned growth of the city.

The industrial body has welcomed allocation of Rs. 27 crores by the State Government to develop the road into a six-lane one.

Convenor of the CII Avinashi Road Project, Nandini Rangaswamy, said that the 16 km stretch between Neelambur by-pass and Uppilipalayam was a main road from which many other roads originated and linked different parts of Coimbatore city.

It had several educational institutions and commercial establishments on either side.

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Quoting the CII-Tamil Nadu Road Development Corporation study on the road, she said that more than 75,000 motor vehicles used it every day.

The city would be growing towards the Eastern direction with the booming knitwear sector in Tirupur and textile units in Coimbatore.

The project had been mooted at the right time since the city was on the threshold of an economic boom, pointed out Krishna Samaraj, former Chairman of the CII, Coimbatore Zone.

Jayakumar Ramdass, the immediate past chairman of the confederation added that the CII study had identified the bottlenecks and the improvements that the road needed, estimated the cost for the project and suggested a financial model too.

The proposal was to develop the road as the second IT corridor in the State.

Though the total cost was estimated to be Rs. 130 crores, the initial allocation would take care of the immediate needs.