The construction of a textile park at Irur village on the Tiruchi-Perambalur National Highway is to start by October as all the preliminary works have been taken up for the transfer of land to the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT). The proposal of the textile park has attracted a large number of entrepreneurs with as many as 31 of them from different parts of the state expressing interest to set up units. One of them has demanded allocation of five acres of land to set up a readymade garments unit.

Interestingly, the textile park will mainly cater to the needs of export-oriented readymade garments units and production of yarn. A number of entrepreneurs have submitted their projects to set up T-shirt manufacturing units. To support the textile park, the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board has planned to provide water supply to the site where the park situated on an area of 40.35 hectares – 36.79 hectares of government poramboke land is to be constructed.

Also a sum of Rs 65 lakh has been sanctioned for laying a tar road from the National Highway to the site. The proposal was mooted as early as 2012 and suffered various bottlenecks particularly with regard to the selection of a site. However, the park would not handle dyes and chemicals to prevent environment pollution.