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Area: (sq. kms)
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130058
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Population:
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55858946
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Capital:
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Chennai
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Literacy: (per cent)
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63.86
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Principal languages:
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Tamil
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Districts:
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29
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Growth Rate: (per cent)
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14.94
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Density of population: (per sq. km)
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428
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Per Capita State Income at Current Prices (Rs.) (1990-91):
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5078
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Index of Development of Infrastructure (1990-91):
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138
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Urban Population: (per cent)
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34.15
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Major Minerals: Limestone,
magnesite, mica, quartz, felspar, salt, bauxite, lignite, gypsum.
Major Industries: Cotton,
textiles, chemicals, fertilizers, paper and products, printing
and allied industries, diesel engines, automobiles and ancillaries,
cycles, cement, sugar, iron and steel, railway wagon and coaches.
Major Crops: Rice, Maize,
Bajra, Jawar, Ragi and pulses, sugarcane, oilseeds, cotton, chillies,
banana, coffee, tea and rubber.
Forest Products: Timber, sandalwoods,
pulp wood and firewood.
Installed Generating Capacity:
(March1995)
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MW *
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Per cent
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Hydro
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1,948
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41.1
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Thermal
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2,789
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58.9
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Nuclear
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-
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-
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Total
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4,737
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100
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* Excludes the multi-State Projects.
Infrastructure:
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Energy requirement (Mn. Units)
1994-95
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29,570
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Energy availability (Mn. Units)
1994-95
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28,730
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Surplus(+)/Deficit(-)
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(-) 840
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Surplus(+)/Deficit(-) per cent
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(-) 2.8 per cent
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Number of Bank Branches (March
1993)
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4,368
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Railway Route Per '000 Sq.Km.
of Area (1991-92)
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30.9
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Road Length Per '000 Sq.Km.
of Area (1987-88)
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1,285
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Industrial Incentive Schemes:
- Investment subsidy from 10 per
cent to 20 per cent (Rs 5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh).
- Investment subsidy for employing
women.
- Subsidy for generators for captive
use @ 15 per cent (Rs 5 crore).
- Subsidy for mega projects above
Rs 50 crore (Rs 25 crore to Rs 100 crore).
- Sales tax exemption for a period
of 5 to 9 years.
- Exemption from electricity tax.
- Exemption from stamp duty.
- Exemption from electricity duty
for captive consumption.
- Sales tax incentives for mega
projects above Rs 50 crore and for super mega projects exceeding
Rs.1500 crore.
- Capital subsidy for backward areas
from 15 per cent to 20 per cent (Rs. 15 lakh to Rs. 20 lakh).
- Special subsidy for thrust industries
viz. education, leather, automobile spares, drugs, pollution
control equipment, sports goods, food processing, certain building
materials, jute machinery, solar energy equipments.
- 10 per cent special subsidy for
effluent treatment plant (Rs. 2 lakh ceiling).
Contact:
Industries Secretary
Government of Tamil Nadu
Fort St George
Chennai - 600 009
Tel. 044-561383
Fax 044-560 822
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