I, Me, My Ambattur :)Ambattur is an important industrial town located in Chennai Extension. The town constitutes a regional suburb of the adjoining district of Chennai called Tiruvallur. The region is situated towards the west of the city and at a distance of about 13 kilometres from central Chennai. The place s connected with the continous road and railway links.
Ambattur Industrial Estate
The AIE (Ambattur Industrial Estate), spread over an area of 4.9 km² is the biggest small scale industrial estate in South Asia. Textile industries like ACL (Ambattur Clothing Limited), Bombay Fashions have their facilities here and employ thousands of women. Software companies like HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services have their development centres in the Ambattur industrial estate. There are also a few BPO centres like Perot Systems in AIE.
Ambattur Industrial Estate had its functioning commissioned in the year 1964, by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Several factors such as suitability of the soil communication facilities, availability of raw materials and a large volume of ground water suitable for industrial and domestic purposes, etc., were responsible for seeking this place for the setting up of this industrial Estate, an extent of 4 km² adjoining the estate was acquired by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board for housing purposes.
Chennai Tech Park, a 2.4 Million state-of-the-art-Futuristic Information Technology Park, is being developed on 10 acres of land offering the finest of IT & ITES office spaces at Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai.
The township is rapidly developing into a residential area with many basic institutions installed here. Hospitals and schools have been grossly built in the last few years. The development as such has lead to the growing number of residential colonies in the outskirts. Some popular residential areas of Ambattur include Kamaraj Nagar, Balaji Nagar, Sathya Nagar, Periyar Nagar, Venkata Nagar, etc. Some renowned institutes in region include Vellamal Engineering College, Soka Ikeda College, Lady Violet's Women College, Hussain Memorial School, T.I Matriculation Higher Secondary School, G.K.Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalya, Sethu Bhaskara, etc. The hospitals contained within the suburbs precincts are Ess Vee Hospital, Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital, Dr.RAbindran's Health Care Centre. Ambattur township houses a good number of local markets catering to the residential population. The markets are provided as special markets and super markets. Special markets comprises of shopping areas that sell only a selected category of articles. The super markets, however, are provided with whole lot of stuff. Farm Bazar, Ponnu's market, Golden Super Market, Subiksha market are some of the best shopping places in Ambattur. The region also features a number of popular entertainment institutions.
Accessibility
- Chennai Tiruvallur High Road provides for the accessibility via road, from the centre of the city. The locality is about 13 kms far from the city center. The city center lies straight east of Ambattur.
- The Southern Railways provide the services in the region. There is a regional railway station located in Ambattur, called as Ambattur Railway Station.
- Chennai Airport lies south of Ambattur and is about 12 kms away.
Ambattur | |||
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| Next station east: Pattaravakkam | Chennai suburban railway: West line Stop number: 10 KM from starting:5 | Next station west: Thirumullaivoil | |
Areas Under Ambattur
- Mogapper
- Padi
- Korattur
