Tirupur
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| Tirupur | |
  Tirupur
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| State - District(s) |
Tamil Nadu - coimbatore District |
| Coordinates | |
| Area - Elevation |
---- km² - 988ft m |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Population (2005) - Density |
0.8 million - ----/km² (7th) |
| MLA | Mr Govindasamy |
| Codes - Postal - Telephone - Vehicle |
- 641 xxx - +91 421 - TN-39 |
Tirupur(திருப்பூர் in Tamil) is a city in Tamil Nadu, south India. It belongs to Coimbatore district. It is situated 50 kilometres east of Coimbatore. It is located at about 495 km south west of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the fastest developing cities in Tamil Nadu. Tirupur is the seventh largest city in Tamil Nadu. It is quite a congested city, although public authorities are undertaking steps to upgrade all means of public transportation,
The city is known for its hosiery exports and provides employment for about 6 lakh people (about 600'000). The population of Tirupur and surrounding villages is around 800,000. The nearest domestic airport is in Coimbatore(about 38 km away). The nearest international airports are Kochi, Bangalore and Chennai airports. Kumaran road is the busiest road in city.while Avinashi road & PN road are arterial roads of the city. The business district is located near the old bus stand area , but it is slowly moving towards north. Tirupur has about one railway station and two bus stands. Most of the roads are narrow. Tirupur is known for water scarcity and abnormal high rents.
Tirupur is well connected by trains from Coimbatore, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi and Trivandrum. Tirupur is about 45 minutes drive from Coimbatore airport.
The climate is typically warm. The Noyyal river, which is very polluted, runs through the city. The cost of living in the city is high. Walmart, Switcher,Diesel,[[ARMY],Tommy Hilfiger,M&S,FILA,H&M,PINK LEMONADE,HTHP,WHALE,Reebok,HEIZZUER, the world's largest retailer, imports many textiles items and clothings from Tirupur. Though multinational corporations do not put restrictions on the pollution front, they force the small players to cut costs by dumping the untreated water into the river. Unlike the Other Cities in India, the pollution control board has imposed 0 Discharge from Dyeing factory in Tirupur alone. Difficulty is experienced by the exporters due to the many rules, but they are trying to work through it.
The local people predominantly made of gounder community, who had become successful businessman & exporters, In the last 20 years many people from southern district & small percentage from kerela had settelled as workers & other trades.
The land mark of Tirupur are Noyyal river diving the city into two halves of North & south, The railway bridge over railway station, Tirupur Kumaran memorial statue near railway station.
some of the famous places of Tirupur area "Khaderpet" a wholesale market for the seconds (export rejected) banian pieces and for local pieces.
The central business district of Tirupur was kamaraj road and areas around old bus stand in 1980s, Now it has moved to Kumaran road & parts of Avinashi road & Pn road near railway station. In future it is expected to move further north and Avinashi road becoming CBD.
New Tirupur is one of a world class Textile City developed by the Association. Tirupur also has big Industries like the Prem group of companies or PGC industries, Eastman exports, SCM group, SP exports, cent win and many more.
It is also the home of major growing corporate supplier such as T-Mart (www.tmartindia.com) , Benchmount ,etc., Tirupur manufactores for major brands and also has a growth that of 40% aprox. per year since 1990. One of the largest girls school in South Asia is located here. Jaivabai Girls Higher Secondary School is located on Kumaran Road and has more than 5500 students. There are also really good schools in Tirupur like the JMHS school, Vivekananda school, T.E.A Public School which is run by the T.E.A (Tirupur Exporters Association).The Prem Switcher Free Schools run by PGC Industries (PremDurai Exports) with the Durai Charatable Trust educating 1500 students per year with 7 schools, free water supply and health care facilities is also activated and run yet in Tirupur with is free. Tirupur is also known for its companies which have achived major certificats and is showing a average growht of 40% per year since 1990. For Texilte Information we suggeste to visit Visit: www.tea-india.org
TEA Assosiation has achived major progress in water pipe line , exports promotion , Netaji Apparel Park (Biggest Apparel Park in India) , School , etc.,
[edit] The Hosiery Industry
Local market is around 800 crore Indian rupees. There are more than 2500 apparel manufacturing units and 750 dyeing units in Tirupur. It also has 300 printing units, 100 embroider units and 200 other units like compacting, raising and calendering units. The export market was around Rs 8500 crores & local market is about 1500 crores in 2006 lo. Millions of pieces of underwear come out of Tirupur every year. Tirupur's hosiery factories are profitable successes, small jewels in India's economy. (It is one of the largest foreign exchange source for INDIA).
The transformation of Tirupur into this hosiery machine over the last couple of decades has had a downside. Its water sources are either hopelessly polluted by the hosiery factories or have dried up altogether, unable to keep up with the demand. For some years, Tirupur has had to truck in water for its residents, at a substantial cost. The infrastructure in the city is very poor, and various projects are underway to improve city infrastructure. One of these projects, just commissioned in 2006, is an innovative private/public partnership that has brought water and sewerage connections to the businesses and homes in the Tirupur area.
Due to the congestion in the town, New Tirupur has been developed 12 km from the town.
Apart from surge in development, the health condition of the people here is deteriorating quickly due to the high amount of pollution. Many severe disease such as asthma, brochititis, and sleeplessness affect the people very badly. Recently, there has been an outbreak of the wide spread endemic disease AIDS in the town due to the sexual illiteracy among the workers and the majority of the teen-aged girls and boys working during the night shift hours in the knitting garments factories. The disease spread in the town is heading top the list in worst affected cities in Tamil Nadu. Many health rehabilitation programs have been organised by Government of Tamil Nadu and many private agencies to open the eyes of the people.
Apart from all these, garment industries are very eager to facilitate with IT infrastructure with very latest technologies in both Hardware and Software. Nowadays, all are expecting the ERP based packages like SAP, to run their business. For the first time in garment, Network Clothing Company introduce, SAP system for their business, for all units. Head office locate at Tirupur and dyeing unit locate at SIPCOT, Perundurai. The town boasts " Even an uneducated person to have filled purse ".
The Rise of Tirupur in the last 80 years and the agrarian, caste and gendered origins of work have been documented in the book "Fraternal capital" by sharad chari.
