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Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore

Sabyasachi Chandra

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has approved two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu, at Manallur covering 474.3 acres for ₹587.47 crore and at Pillapaikkam cove…

The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a figure reported then as ₹1,112 crore, and the difference cannot be resolved from public reporting.

No completion date, anchor tenant, job projection or central-versus-state funding split has been published for either cluster.

None of the twelve manufacturing projects approved under the Semicon India Programme is located in Tamil Nadu, despite the state carrying 61 of the 315 institutes in the semiconductor talent progra…

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