Infrastructure for industrial development                                                                                                    

Industrial Developement Area

          There are four industrial development areas in the district, which are in Kanjikkode and Pudussery belonged to Palakkad Taluk and Kappur and Shornur belonged to Ottapalam Taluk. The total extend of land available in all these area is 702.93 acres, out of this about 95% is already in use by various industries. The DA/ DP wise details position of the above industrial area is as follows.

Name of DA/DP

Total area acquired (in acres)

Area for common  amenities

(in acres)

Allottable     area       (in acres)

Area allotted (in acres)

Total number of units

Balance

(in acres)

NIDA, Kanjikode

532.80

19.36

513.44

513.44

236

Nil

IDA, Pudussery

134.15

4.16

129.99

129.99

64

Nil

DP Kappur

18.26

1.97

16.29

15.46

25

0.83

DP Shornur

17.72

0.60

17.12

7.50

2

9.62

Total

702.93

26.09

676.84

666.39

327

10.45

Mini Industrial Estate (MIE)

          Mini Industrial Estates are functioning directly under the control of District Industries Centre, Palakkad in six areas. The sheds in these MIEs are allotted to micro enterprises to encourage the investment in these categories and thus to ensure the industrial development. The details of MIEs under Palakkad MIE Cooperative Societies Ltd are given below.

Sl No.

Name of MIE

Total land

(in Acres)

Details of sheds

Total units

Working units

900 sq ft

600 sq ft

1

Kanjikode MIE

1

4

6

10

10

2

Koduvayur MIE

1

4

6

6

6

3

Vadakkenchery MIE

1

4

6

9

8

4

Tarur MIE

1

4

6

6

4

5

Muthalamada MIE

1.28

4

6

7

6

6

Padur MIE

1

4

6

4

4

 

Total

6.28

24

36

42

38

 

Infrastructure provided by KINFRA

        The total industrial land in Wise Park KINFRA (Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation) Kanjikode in Palakkad district is 200 acres, out of these 170.53 acres have already been allotted and the balance of land available for allotment is 29.47 acres. The infrastructure such as 4 km road, electrical lines and drainage system and shopping complex are also provided inside the Park. The Park contains water supply system of having 1 lakh litres of overhead tank, 4 lakh litres of ground water tank and 7 acres of water body for rain water harvesting and for bore well recharge.

Details of Industrial Land Identified From Local Bodies

              The details of Block wise industrial land identified from Local bodies in each Taluk are given below.        

Name of Block / Municipality

Name of Panchayat / Village

Survey No.

Village

Land (in Cents)

No. of Sheds

Vacancy / Availability of land

ALATHUR TALUK

Alathur Block

Tarur

133/3

Tarur

30

2

 

 

Vadakkenchery

 

Vadakkanchery 1

10

5

Nil

Kannambra

14/1

Kannadi I

5

6

 

Pudukode

 

Pudukode

56

1

 

Alathur

 

 

Alathur

 

2

 

Thenkurussi

212/5,90/A,4/40,7/20

Thenkurussi II

65.5

13

 

Kzhalmannam Block

 

Kannadi

78/2

Kannadi I

100

1

 

Kuzhalmannam

14/95,438/4,7

Kuzhalmannam 1, KuzhalmannamII

56

11

 

Kottayi

697/2

Kottayi 1

3

1

 

 

Total

 

 

324.5

42

 

CHITTUR TALUK

Chittur T Municipality

Chittur Village

 

 

 

1

Nil

Kollengode Block

 

Pattenchery GP

267/5

Pattanchery I

7

1  (1539 Sq .ft)

Nil

 

Koduvayur

51/3

Koduvayur I

192

2

Yes

 

Total

 

 

199

3

 

MANNARKKAD TALUK

 

 

 

 

Nil

 

 

OTTAPPALAM TALUK

Shornur (M)

Shornur (M)

 

SRR (M)

86

2

 

Ottapalam (M)

Ottapalam (M)

79/7

Otp (M)

17

1

 

Pattambi (B)

Ongallur

 

Ongallur

165

1

 

Thrithala (B)

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Ottapalam (B)

Ambalapara

 

Ambalapara-I

24

5

 

Thrikkadeeri I

27/6

Thrikkadeeri-I

27

1

 

Sreekrishnapuram (B)

Sreekrishnapuram (B)

½,1/3

Thrikkadeeri-II

126

 

 

Sreekrishnapuram (B)

1/8A, ½,1/3, 1/4A

Thrikkadeeri-II

98

 

 

Sreekrishnapuram (B)

1/8A, 1/4A

Thrikkadeeri-II

80

 

 

Karimpuzha

441/3

Karimpuzha-I

 

1

 

 

Total

 

 

623

11

 

PALAKKAD TALUK

 

 

 

 

Nil

 

 

 

Grand Total

 

 

1146.5

56

 

Future Land Availability in Block/ Taluk/ District

         The Taluk wise Block wise land available of future development of industries in Palakkad is summarised below.

Sl. No.

Name of Taluk / Block

Location / Village

Survey No.

DIC

KINFRA

SILK

Any other Agency

Total Land

Remarks

1

Alathur Taluk

Nil

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Chittur Taluk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chittur Block

Ozhalapath/ Vadakarapathy

113/1

-

-

-

Pvt. land

30acre

Dry land

3

Mannarkkad Taluk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nil

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

Ottapalam Taluk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nil

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

Palakkad Taluk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nil

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIDCO

        The Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) has made the industrial development by forming Industrial Estates at Olavakkode and Karakkad, Mini Industrial Estates at Ottapalam, Vaniyamkulam and Pattambi and Industrial Park at Shornur in the district. The details such as extend of land available, land allotted, major industrial units etc. in each estate are the following.

 

Name of SIDCO Estate

Total land

Land allotted

Land available

Investment made

Employment provided

1

Industrial Estate, Olavakkode

828.512

622.76

205.752

 

200

2

Industrial Estate, Karakkad

737.784

737.784

Nil

 

350

3

Mini Industrial Estate, Ottapalam

9.88

9.88

Nil

 

85

4

Mini Industrial Estate, Vaniyamkulam

59.089

54.509

4.58

 

80

5

Mini Industrial Estate, Pattambi

18.798

18.798

Nil

 

40

6

Industrial Park, Shornur

390.78

309.78

Nil

 

75

 

Total

2044.843

1753.511

210.322

 

 

Major industrial units in SIDCO estates

Industrial Estate, Olavakkode

1.  M/s KEL

2.  M/s Sayok Batteries

3.  M/s Allan Associates

4.  M/s Maruth Industries

5.  M/s MSFEL Enterprises

Industrial Estate, Karakkad

1.  M/s Lakshmi Engineering

2.  M/s Variety Pharmaceuticals

3.  M/s Variety Formulations

4.  M/s Mayil Fittings

5.  M/s Thulasi Foundries and Forgings

Mini Industrial Estate, Ottapalam

1.  M/s NILA Catering service

2.  M/s NILA Bakes

Mini Industrial Estate, Vaniyamkulam

1.  M/s Amma Forgings

2.  M/s Amitha Forgings

3.  M/s Melethil Industries

Mini Industrial Estate, Pattambi

1.  M/s Surya Glass Creation

2.  M/s Surya Creation

3.  M/s Nila Foods

Industrial Park, Shornur

1.  M/s Nila Confectionaries

2.  M/s Well Known Industries

3.  M/s Thoy Industries

KSIDC

         KSIDC is developing an industrial park at Palakkad in the name "KSIDC Investment Zone" in 34 acres of land at Kanalpirivu, Pudussery East village, Palakkad Taluk. KSIDC proposes to provide developed industrial plots and built up space for potential industries at this Park. KSIDC has so far invested an amount of Rs.4 Crores in the park towards supporting infrastructure like compound wall, internal road, side drain, main gate, security cabin, administrative building and water supply arrangements.

 

KSIDC has allotted 1.5 acres land to M/s GAIL for setting up an SV/IP station. Once the infrastructure is fully developed the park will be opened to other industrial units also. It is expected that when fully functional the park will generate an employment of approximately 5000.

KINFRA

          There are 24 industrial units in KINFRA, Kanjikode. The total capital inflow investment in all these 24 units is 231.16 crores. The unit wise investment and employment generation are given below.

Sl.

No.

   Name of industrial unit

Employment

Capital inflow

Investment (in Lakhs)

1

Pepsico India Holdings (P) Ltd.

450

11000

2.

Central Warehousing Corporation

5

180

3.

World Wide Iron & Steel (P) Ltd

70

300

4.

Steel Max Rolling Mills  Ltd.

80

350

5.

Kairali Cement Company

12

65

6.

Mannarkkad Steels (P) Ltd

46

180

7.

Kuttippulan Iron&Steel Company(P)Ltd.

47

410

8.

M.P.S.Steel Castings (P) Ltd.

155

7295

9.

Prince TMT Steels (P) Ltd.

81

391

10.

Sun Power Cement Company (P) Ltd.

85

2300

11.

Technomax Industries

5

80

12.

Zeba Lab Systems (P) Ltd.

32

250

13.

Hydenso Steel & Engineering.(P) Ltd

21

75

15.

Palakkad Surgical Industries  Pvt Ltd

61

100

16.

Saaroco

1

10

17.

Isotech Metrology Solutions

4

10

18.

Spinnotech Tooling Solutions

8

120

 

TOTAL

1163

23116

Transport facilities

The district is well connected by road, rail and have proximity to airports at Coimbatore, Kozhikode and Kochi. The NH 47 runs through the industrial estate area in Kanjikode and has a length of 70 kms. The district has a total of 1646 km of PWD roads, which includes 373 km of State Highway, 794 kms of major district roads, 437 kms of other district roads and 42 kms Village roads. Thr total length of the railway line in the district is 102 km (broad gauge). Palakkad Junction and Shornur Jn are the main railway stations in the district connect the other major centres in the State and the country.

Telecommunication

         The district has a good network of telecommunication system. Besides Postal department and BSNL, effective courier and parcel services and mobile networking facilities are provided by private service providers. P&T has two postal divisions, one at Palakkad and the other at Ottappalam, 4 head post offices, 158 sub post offices and 293 Village level post offices. BSNL has 106 telephone exchanges in Palakkad with a total capacity of 2.23 lakhs lines.

 Banking

    The district is having enough number of branches in both rural and urban areas. The total number of service branches available in Palakkad is 515, out of these, 249 are in Public sector, 120 in Private sector, 145 in cooperative sector and the remaining 1 is KFC. Canara Bank is the lead bank in the district.

 The name of banks and its number of functioning branches are given below.

A.   PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

Sl No.

Name of Bank

No. of branches

 

State Bank Groups

 

1

State Bank of India

44

2

State Bank of Mysore

1

3

State Bank of Travancore

43

 

Total- State Bank Group

88

 

Nationalised Banks

 

1

Allahabad Bank

1

2

Andhra Bank

2

3

Bank of Baroda

6

4

Bank of India

4

5

Canara Bank

43

6

Central Bank of India

2

7

Corporation Bank

4

8

Dena Bank

1

9

Indian Bank

8

10

Indian Overseas Bank

7

11

IDBI

1

12

Oriental Bank of Commerce

1

13

Punjab National Bank

29

14

Syndicate Bank

8

15

UCO Bank

2

16

Union Bank of India

15

17

United Bank of India

1

18

Vijaya Bank

9

 

Total- Nationalised Banks

144

 

Regional Rural Banks (RRB)

 

 

Kerala Gramin Bank

17

 

Total Public Sector Banks

249

B.   PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS

Sl No.

Name of Bank

No. of branches

1

Catholic Syrian Bank

16

2

City Union Bank

1

3

Dhanalakshmi Bank

18

4

Federal Bank Ltd

29

5

HDFC Bank

11

6

ICICI Bank

6

7

Indus India Bank

1

8

ING Vysya Bank

1

9

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd

1

10

Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd

1

11

South Indian Bank Ltd

34

12

Axis Bank Ltd

1

 

Total- Private Sector Banks

120

 

Total Commercial Banks (A + B)

369

C

Cooperative Banks

 

1

State Cooperative Banks

97

2

PCARDB

5

3

PDC Bank

43

 

Total- Cooperative Banks

145

D

Kerala Financial Institutions

1

 

Total- All kinds of Banks (A+B+C+D)

515

Block wise number of bank branches

Sl. No.

Taluk name

Block/ Municipality

No. of branches

Rural/ Urban

1

Alathur

Alathur

54

R

2

 

Kuzhalmannam

33

R

3

Chittur

Chittur

31

R

4

 

Kollengode

39

R

5

 

Nenmara

35

R

6

 

Chittur (M)

22

U

7

Mannarkkad

Attapady

15

R

8

 

Mannarkkad

53

R

9

Ottapalam

Ottapalam

21

R

10

 

Pattambi

27

R

11

 

Sreekrishnapuram

34

R

12

 

Thrithala

30

R

13

 

Ottapalam (M)

24

U

14

 

Shornur (M)

18

U

15

Palakkad

Malampuzha

45

R

16

 

Palakkad

30

R

17

 

Palakkad (M)

77

U

 Electricity

           There are two electrical circles in the district- Palakkad and Shoranur and there are a total of 61 electrical sections under these circles.

 Consumption under various categories in Lakh units (in 2014, KSEB)

Name of circle

Domestic

Agriculture

Industrial- LT

Industrial- HT

General

Others

Total

Palakkad

353.71

89.49

37.37

346.14

8.04

111.94

946.69

Shoranur

263.96

29.75

20.63

59.60

2.15

68.37

444.46

Total

617.67

119.24

58.00

405.74

10.19

180.31

1391.15

 Total Consumption under LT is 956.39 lakh units and total consumption under HT is 434.76 lakh units.

 List of electrical sections under electrical circle, Palakkad.

 Electrical division, Palakkad

Electrical division, Alathur

Electrical division, Chittur

Sulthanpet

Big Bazar

Melamuri

Kalpathy

Olavakkode

Malampuzha

Kanjikode

Elappully

Marutha Road

Parli

Pathiripala

Kongad

Kadampazhippuram

Mundur

Kuzhalmannam

Kuthannur

Kottayi

Peringottukurissi

Alathur

Kunissery

Padur

Puthucode

Vadakkenchery

Mudappallur

Nenmara

Kizhakkencherry

 

Chittur

Kozhinjampara

Velathavalam

Koduvayur

Pudunagaram

Tattamangalam

Kollengode

Muthalamada

Nelliyampathy

 

 List of electrical sections under electrical circle, Shoranur

 Vallapuzha

Koottupatha

Thiruvengappura

Challissery

Peringode

Padinjarangadi

Koppam

Thrithala

Pattambi

Ongallur

Muthuthala

Cherpulassery

Ambalappara

Ottappalam

Shoranur

Vaniyamkulam

Kothakurissi

Panangattiri

Sreekrishnapuram

Alanellur

Thachampara

Kottathara

Agali

Kanjirapuzha

Kumaramputhur

mannarkkad

Details of substations und Transmission Circle, Palakkad

Sl No.

Name of substation

Total capacity in MVA

 

220 KV substations

 

1.

2.

Shornur

Kanjikkode

200

320

 

110 KV substations

 

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

Kanjikkode

Vennakkara

Malampuzha

Mannarkkad

Kollengode

Parali

Ottappalam

Cherpulassery

Koppam

Koottanad

Vedakkenchery

Kozhinjampara

Kalladikode

Walayar

Pathiripala

126

105

20

52

32

52

22.5

25

52

41

54.5

57

22.5

25

35

 

 

66 KV substations

 

1.

2.

3.

Nenmara

Kannampully

Chittur

16

8

20

 

 

33 KV substations

 

 

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

Maniyampara

Alathur

Alanallur

Agali

Muthalamada

Nelliyampathy

Koduvayur

Pallassana

Sreekrishnapuram

Kongad

Pattambi

Chalissery

Thrithala

Vannamada

Meenakshipuram

Tharur

Chittadi

Velanthavalam

Thiruvengappura

 

10

10

10

10

10

5

10

5

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

5

 (Source: KSEB, Palakkad dt 25-7-14)

           The district is also supported by one 2.25 MVA windmill station at Kanjikode and a 2.5 MVA mini hydel generating station at Malampuzha.

RAILWAY COACH FACTORY   Land acquisition have already completed and other work is in progresses