Rajiv Gandhi Salai
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Rajiv Gandhi Salai, previously known as Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) or IT Corridor is an important road in suburban Chennai, India, starting from Madhya Kailash temple and going southward till Mahabalipuram terminating in East Coast Road. This is popularly called as 'IT Corridor' because this road has become the home to most of the IT companies in Tamil Nadu.
TNRDC has incorporated a special purpose vehicle titled IT Expressway Ltd (ITEL) as a wholly owned subsidiary, for domiciling the IT Corridor Project. ITEL being an investment vehicle, has engaged TNRDC as its Managing Associate and is responsible for project implementation and operations and maintenance of IT Corridor. The work was supposed to be completed by May 2006, but large parts of the road remain incomplete due to rain and other unforeseen complications. The IT Corridor Project is being implemented in two phases – Phase-I between Madhya Kailash Temple Junction and Siruseri and Phase-II between Siruseri and Mahabalipuram. The 2.1 km long ECR Link Road connecting IT Corridor at Sholinganallur and East Coast Road at Kudumiyandithoppu is also included in Phase-I.
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[edit] IT corridor
The prestigious TIDEL Park, home to a number of BPO and IT/ITES companies and also the facilities of almost all major IT/ITES companies like Satyam Computer Services, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture India, Wipro Technologies, Cognizant Technology Solutions,Scope International, Photon Infotech, Polaris Software Lab, and Infosys are situated along the IT Corridor. Prominent Government Institutes and technical/ educational institutions are also situated along the Corridor. The corridor stretches from Tidel Park in Tharamani to SIPCOT IT Park in Siruseri. All IT bigwigs like Infosys, TCS, CTS have their own facilities in the It corridor.
Besides, Small Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) has developed a Cyber City, spread over 2000 acres (8 km²) in Siruseri, abutting the IT Corridor. A number of IT/ITES Companies are in the process of setting up their facilities in the Cyber City
[edit] Housing
The burgeoning population of information technology professionals is having a logical influence on real estate development, with a slew of residential apartments coming up along the IT Corridor. The total investment in such projects in this area is estimated at a whopping Rs 550 crore.
The last one year has seen activities from leading real estate and construction companies from other states. Some of the builders who are active in this area are Hiranandani, Vijay Shathi Builders, Naveen Construction,Suryavardhan Estates Private Limited, Jain Housing & Constructions, RAMS Builders, Singapore-based Ascendas, Bangalore-based RMZ, Arhihant, Doshi & Doshi and Rajyog. Most of the developers are also offering amenities like health clubs, sports facilities, supermarkets etc in this belt so that the residents don't need to travel to the city for those. Construction of a state-of-the art shopping mall is also going on.
There about 70,000 people employed in IT and BPO companies along this corridor alone currently. The impetus real estate development has come from projections that about an additional one lakh people will be employed in the IT belt in the next one to two years. Property prices have risen 40 to 50 per cent in the whole belt, in the last two years.
[edit] Colleges
Important colleges along OMR include <jeppiaar engineering college>, Sathyabhama Deemed University, <st. marys school of managemental studies><jeppiaar SRR engineering college>St. Joseph College of Engineering,
[edit] Transportation
[edit] Bus routes
Chennai's city bus service, the MTC operates buses along OMR. Most MTC buses terminate at or before Sholinganallur, which roughly defines the official city limits. The buses that go beyond Sholinganallur are headed for Kelambakkam. These include 19B (from Saidapet), M5 (from Adyar), and 21H (from Broadway which is near Chennai Central railway station).
State buses and buses going to Pondicherry currently operate via East Coast Road instead of OMR.
[edit] Bus stops
There are two routes for the OMR road, one is from Madhya Kailash and the other from Adyar. The SRP Tools bus stop is the junction at which the road from the above two routes meet. The Adyar route is highly conjested where it goes through Thiruvanmiyur then on to the SRP Tools bus stop. From Velechery through Vijayanagar there is also a road to the SRP Tools bustop. Important bus stops on OMR (starting from Madhya Kailash):
- Madhya Kailash
- CPT bus stop or Indira Nagar Raliway Station bus stop
- Tidel Park bus stop
- SRP Tools bus stop
- IGP bus stop
- Kandanchavadi bus stop
- Perungudi bus stop
- Thoraipakkam bus stop
- Karapakkam bus stop
- Sholinganallur bus stop
- Ponniamman kovil bus stop
- Sathyabhama Deemed University / Chemmencherry
- Sathyabama University /Jeppiar Nagar
- Navalur bus stop
- SIPCOT IT Park bus stop Aspire Systems J.P
- Hindustan College of Engineering bus stop
- Kelambakkam bus terminus
