SIPCOT industrial parks at Nanguneri, Moolakaraipatti and Pallikottai are under land acquisition. The update was posted on August 28, 2026.

Tamil Nadu’s Interim Budget 2026, presented on February 17, did not announce a revival plan for the Nanguneri Multi-product SEZ, whose revival had been sought for 25 years. The SEZ has 13 small manufacturing units employing a few hundred workers, against an original target of 100,000 jobs. A major portion of its 2,600 acres has been mortgaged by the project promoter to raise loans for other purposes, and the complex lacks investor-friendly infrastructure. The State has not retrieved the land.

The budget promises mini IT parks in Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari. Gangaikondan’s IT SEZ, established 20 years ago, is still waiting for companies to open offices. The budget also proposes an employability-skills Centre of Excellence at Government Engineering College, Palayamkottai; a sewage treatment plant to prevent wastewater discharge into the Tamirabharani from Tirunelveli Corporation areas; and a 1,000 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric project at Vellimalai in the Western Ghats, Kanniyakumari district.

• Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu and Tirunelveli District Collector R. Sukumar inspected seven ongoing development works in the Radhapuram Assembly constituency.
• Works reviewed:
• Valliyoor government hospital, costing ₹30 crore
• 506 apartments being built by the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board
• Valliyoor bus stand, outlay ₹12.13 crore
• Valliyoor market reconstruction, cost ₹6.03 crore
• Drinking water project for Kalakkad municipality and 7 town panchayats
• Drinking water project for 831 villages in Radhapuram Assembly constituency, costing ₹609 crore
• Groyne construction at Kootapuli, cost ₹48.50 crore
• The Valliyoor Government Hospital is near the four-lane national highway and will have:
• four operation theatres
• CT scan facilities
• geriatric ward
• ground floor: diagnostic services, CT scan, digital X-ray, ultrasound, ECG, general medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry, dermatology, kitchen and post-mortem facility
• first floor: in-patient wards, post-operative care ward, dialysis
• second floor: ICUs, four operation theatres, tuberculosis ward, de-addiction ward, HIV treatment ward, geriatric ward
• The hospital is expected to be ready to receive patients from September 2025.
• A 24/7 public health laboratory is also coming up at the hospital campus with an outlay of ₹1 crore; it will support disease surveillance and tests including stool culture, blood culture, OT swab analysis, drinking-water bacteriology and serology/ELISA for dengue, chikungunya, viral hepatitis A and E, measles, leptospirosis and scrub typhus.
• Another drinking water project costing ₹423.13 crore covers Kalakkad municipality and the town panchayats of Nanguneri, Ervadi, Moolaikaraipatti and Thirukkurungudi in Nanguneri constituency, and Valliyoor, Thisayanvilai and Panagudi in Radhapuram constituency.
• The two drinking water projects were asked to be expedited, with December-end cited as the deadline.
• Residents of Kottaiyadi in Valliyoor ward 18 complained of inadequate drinking water and poor roads; officials were told to submit a compliance report within a week.