- As per the guidance of Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, the work for preparing Detailed Project Report(DPR) for the Tamil Nadu Defence Quad has been initiated by Department of Defence Production in the Ministry of Defence(MoD).
- Defence Production Corridors: The Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in the Budget 2018-19 has announced setting up of two Defence Production Corridors.
- The Defence Production Corridors will be set up in Tamil Nadu in Uttar Pradesh (Bundelkhand).
- Tamilnadu Defence Corridor: The Tamilnadu Defence Corridor, which is organized as a quadrilateral will extend from Chennai, Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli. It is therefore rightly called the Tamil Nadu Defence Quad.
- Benefits: It is expected that with government opening up new opportunities for industry in defence sector, the Tamil Nadu Defence Quad will provide a major opportunity to the vibrant manufacturing sector in the State.
- Further, to ensure that the expectations of local industry, especially MSMEs is incorporated, to the extent appropriate, in the proposed development of the Quad, the MoD has initiated an exercise of industry interactions at all nodal points for the Quad, namely Chennai, Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli.
