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Arvind Sridharan retweeted
For decades, India’s manufacturing story was about low-cost production and supply-chain coordination.
A new cohort of startups is moving past that, competing in high-precision, IP-led manufacturing and building complex products for customers around the world.
Jeh Aerospace is one of them. In the 18 months after its seed round, the startup secured $200 million in long-term contracts from global customers!
Precision manufacturing is a Trillion dollar opportunity that India has barely tapped. @jehaero built by @vishalsanghavi and Venky Mudragalla is an early sign of what’s coming.
Read more about this company and many more incredible startups in The Lift-Off Nation, co-authored by @TheSaurabhSri and me.
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Even the local dogs in Chennai seems to have upgraded from suburban local to metro... @cmrlofficial 😏
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Indian metros will burn crores of rupees every year but won’t invest in feeder services to bring more crowd and reduce their losses!
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A friend in the industry confirmed what my relative in logistics sector has been telling for more than a year. That the Chennai airport Air cargo is so saturated that they are shipping goods from industries around Chennai to BLR by trucks to ship abroad for time sensitive cargo!
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Unless Vijay Fans IDs make it viral and take it to the leadership. This won't change.
@VijayFansTrends @ActorVijayTeam @ramk8060 @Harish_NS149 @sureshsamyTVK @OGprasan
Sholinganallur constituency is struggling with countless civic issues, and many roads are in terrible condition. But the MLA seems more focused on banners and flex boards than solving people’s problems. FYI @CMOTamilnadu
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When one has an airport management like this!!
Choosing to Give, Choosing to Save Lives
#ChennaiAirport conducted an awareness session on #organdonation under the Angdaan Jeevan Sanjeevani Abhiyaan, in association with the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO).
The session was led by Dr N. Gopalakrishnan, M.D., D.M., FRCP, Member Secretary, Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN), who highlighted the importance of organ donation and its potential to save lives.
Airport Director Shri M. Raja Kishore administered the organ donation pledge to AAI officials, reaffirming the commitment to creating greater awareness and encouraging the noble act of organ donation.
#OrganDonationDay #AngdaanJeevanSanjeevaniAbhiyaan #ChennaiAirport #AAIAirports #SaveLives
@MoCA_GoI | @AAI_Official | @NottoIndia
what a way to cover up their mistake :P
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Arvind Sridharan retweeted
Chennai doesn't have enough flight connectivity inspite it being a massive medical hub and hometown of several Tamil NRIs. Bengaluru has far better connectivity to places like Middle East & Mauritius where so many Tamils live.. @CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ
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Chennai is smart. Instead of building a new airport at Parandur, they will wait for the Blr-Chn HSR and then announce Devanahalli and Kanakapura Road (or any other) as two world class airports, just 73 minutes away + a small airport in Meenambakkam. Well played @TVKVijayHQ
Factories may be in Tamil Nadu, but exports and allied jobs are shifting to Bengaluru, backed by its world-class airport. While Bengaluru is already planning a third airport, we’re still debating Parandur—allowing it to pull further ahead in air cargo, a sector where Chennai was once a leader
@CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ
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Yesterday, I mentioned how young women from other states working in a footwear shop in Chennai earn around ₹35,000 to₹40,000 a month, including incentives.
I visit a popular salon chain. My regular hairstylist is from West Bengal and has been living in Chennai for nearly a decade. His wife, also from Bengal, works as a hairstylist in a different chain. The couple has one daughter, who studies in their hometown and stays with her grandparents.
Together, they earn more than ₹1 lakh a month from salaries, incentives, and customer tips. He says he never imagined he could earn this much. Over the years, they have saved around ₹25 lakh, excluding their provident fund.
The salon chains they work for regularly provide training on new products and trends. This continuous upskilling keeps them professionally updated and employable.
He mentioned that although no one in Chennai speaks Hindi, no one has ever treated him badly for being from another state. He is grateful that Chennai has positively transformed his family’s financial trajectory.
There is a huge perception gap between the reality of how welcoming and opportunity rich Chennai is and the false narratives being spread about it.
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How much time must Guidance Tamil Nadu have spent explaining to every investor how Chennai’s entire infrastructure would be upgraded, the state’s plans for a new airport, metro connectivity, expressways, seamless access to the industrial corridor, improved connectivity to major international destinations, superior air cargo handling, and better port linkages.
I can visualise their frustration as Parandur airport project is being dropped after so much of ground work over all these years.
Though the public may never know the exact reasons, I personally believe this must have been one of the major factors.
I honestly don’t understand why the government is so stubborn about dropping the Parandur airport project.
There are many ways to resolve the issues, from providing jobs and skill development to offering increased compensation and rehabilitation packages.
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This person is clearly putting across his points for Parandur and the second international airport- and why existing airport is cripled and has no chance for growth. This is SCIENCE not politics. @CMOTamilnadu I hope you have the time to listen to this - it will clear all your doubts. @TVKVijayHQ @CTR_Nirmalkumar @Keerthana4VNR @AdvocateVenkatP @AadhavArjuna @BussyAnand Kindly be educated on this subject before taking decisions.
The airside of the Chennai Airport is facing critical, current structural problems—a massive runway bottleneck that almost no one opposing the new airport is talking about. While the opposition focuses entirely on the landside, the hard reality behind the scenes makes expansion here practically impossible.
A complete breakdown of what is really going on behind the curtains. 🛑✈️
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One thing I like very much in Mumbai is its ethics aka thozhil dharmam. I used to travel from my PG in Matunga West to office in BKC in 2009. The taxi every day showed the same amount Rs 54 to Rs 56 depending on time spend in signals and every time the taxi drivers returned that Rs 4 to Rs 6 back when I paid them Rs 60. Not a single murmur or lament or single incident of over charging. Drivers in Bglore and Chennai (worst) should take note of this professional ethics. No other city can come anywhere closer to Mumbai. That ethics makes the city all the more prosperous and God blesses it with copious rains.
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Vanakkam @cmrlofficial, learn from the best metro systems in the world.
Go crazy with plastering ads all around metro. Allow more vending inside stations, sell air rights above stations to developers. I know many of these are already in progress for phase 2, but we need for revising phase 1 stations too.
Don't become like the useless @OfficialBMRCL and depend entirely on ticketing revenue.
Subsidize the tickets, bring in the crowd, and collect money on rent.
Make profits, expand more, and grow.
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THANK YOU DAVID FOR THE LESSON! 🥹❤️
Life is full of lessons. Last week, on a flight from Goa to Mumbai, I learned one.
In the picture is David.
When David boarded the flight, many people looked at him because he was overweight. He came and sat across the aisle from me. In the middle of the flight, he opened his bag, took out a huge collection of chocolates and sweets, and then walked towards the washroom.
I exchanged a glance with the gentleman sitting next to him and said, “He shouldn’t eat so much sweets and chocolates!” This was said out of concern! The gentleman smiled and replied, “Well, that’s probably why he looks the way he does.”
A little while later, David came back, gathered all the sweets, and handed them over to the cabin crew. 🥹
I was surprised.
So I told him, “I must confess, I thought you were going to eat all those chocolates yourself, and that’s why you were overweight.”
He smiled and said, “ I don’t blame you for thinking like that! I have a medical condition. But I used to work with airlines, and I know what cabin crew members go through every day. So I like to bring them something sweet whenever I travel.”
What an outstanding human being.
And what a lesson for me.
How quickly we judge people. How easily we create stories about them without knowing anything about their lives.😳
Thank you, David, for reminding me that kindness is often hidden behind appearances, and that the best people are sometimes the ones we understand the least.
I asked him for a pic! He obliged!
Thank you for the lesson my friend!❤️ #LifeLessons #Encounters
same for chennai @cmrlofficial @CumtaOfficial
Are we ready to have the conversation about how security checks in Namma Metro need to go?
1. Is a massive waste of time, increases friction, and causes burnout esp for short distance travel
2. Doesn't help security in any way. Do you know how much time a proper security check would take? Compare it with the time it takes to do checks in airports.
3. Are a drain on resources. Bengaluru's metro is the most expensive in the country. Why aren't we looking at ways to cut out frivolous expenses?
In the picture - the evening crowd in queue for the security check at the Swami Vivekananda Metro Station.
This metro station has just one entrance, and every evening there is a long queue with every person waiting for a good 7 to 8 minutes just to get in.
Imagine reaching here, tired, after work, having to remove your bag, spread your arms, it's a humiliation ritual that serves no purpose.
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Arvind Sridharan retweeted
We often debate whether cities should have #buslanes or not. #Singapore offers an interesting middle path. @LTAsg
Not every road has a 24x7 bus lane. Depending on the corridor and demand, they use:
🟡 Part-Day Bus Lanes (peak hours)
🔴 Full-Day Bus Lanes
🚌 Bus-Only Lanes
A good reminder that bus priority is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Cities can start small, demonstrate benefits, and gradually move towards stronger priority for public transport.
One bus can move 40–50 people. Giving it priority is often the most efficient use of limited road space.
youtu.be/0NlesOacB_s
@MtcChennai @MtcChennai
@CMOTamilnadu @DKShivakumar @AadhavArjuna @arunraajkg @pkanamarla @ChristinMP_ @omjasvinMD @BBPVedike @tnstcbus @ptrmadurai
@cmrlofficial @CumtaOfficial metro frequency at St thomas mount metro needs to be increased from the 12min currently. As you are already aware it is an interchange station and metro services need to be more frequent to reduce end to end travel time.
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Every part of the original tweet is a logical fallacy. That has already been established in the replies. But reading this triggered a curiosity about Parandur's location. I had no idea that it is such an appropriate location for an international airport. Maybe even better than Sriperumbudur.
1. Excellent rail connectivity with Chennai proper via the existing suburban rail network as Tirumalpur station is just 10 mins away - which has trains to Chennai via Arakkonam and Chengalpet. We just need to invest in better trains with AC coaches to run in these lines.
And then we also have the planned Yellow line of Chennai Metro which will directly connect Parandur to Chennai via Poonamalle.
2. Four Sipcot industrial parks within 1 hour travel radius
3. Ranipet industrial town within 1 hour - potential to develop Ranipet and Vellore
4. Kanchipuram town within 15 kms - can become Chennai's satellite town
If land has already been acquired, it is an unacceptable waste of resources to change it from an airport to Sipcot.
Sipcot will also use arable land. So the original complaint against the airport is null and void.
And an international airport which can provide excellent connectivity for 4 already existing Sipcots within 1 hour radius is obviously much more economically beneficial than building 1 more Sipcot with poor connectivity ( Parandur Metro will no longer make economic sense if there is no airport).
Hope bureaucrats can convince @CMOTamilnadu that he is doing a monumental mistake by abandoning this project and will be remembered for generations to come as the one who stopped TN growth story. I hope that is not how he wants to be remembered.
Parandur is 72 km from Parrys corner -time taken sitting inside car to getting out 2 hr 13 minutes
Add 20 minutes to hiring an Uber and vehicle reporting.
Total 2 hr 33 minutes
Add 30 minutes to travel to collect terminal entry, luggage trolley and travel to check in counter .
3 hours 3 minutes.
And most international flights call for 3 -4 hrs check in before departure for immigration etc
So one needs to prepare 6 hours in advance to travel to parandur.
5-6 hrs early
For 40 mts flight to Bangalore
For 50 mts flight to Kochi
And for 30 mt to one hour fligts to Tuticorin,Trichy, Madurai,Salem,coimbatore.
So most will reach Railway station 25 mt before departure ,travel royally and less risky and safely in Vande Bharat in style with scenic beauty .
So Project Parandur in effect making all Tamilnadu airports reach a slow death .
Hope @CMOTamilnadu
stands firm. If he yields he will never be able to Govern on matters dear to him.
What people don't understand while comparing with Bangalore and Hyderabad is that those cities are land locked.
Those comparing Chennai to Bangalore and Hyderabad airports are missing crucial point. Chennai is having sea connectivity and India's second largest container terminal.
Tamilnadu is a manufacturing hub of heavy machinery and big Industries.
Chennai has a port which can handle giant cargo and machinery and India's second largest container. Every big machinery made in Bangalore ,Hyderabad needs to come to Chennai port for export. Same with heavy duty chemicals etc.
Kudos to British for developing Chennai port which is an artificial harbour in 1880s.
Request @CMOTamilnadu to focus on Chennai harbour development challenges and invest there rather than an airport which can harm fertile lands and also inconvenience passengers.
Let us be pragmatic and not wild dreamers chasing Flights of Fancy.
Connectivity to Parandur is a 15 year Project by itself .
@TVKHQITWingOffl @CTR_Nirmalkumar @Keerthana4VNR @BussyAnand @imrajmohan @TIDCO_1965
@TVKVijayHQ
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Each time I am forced to fly between Chennai and Bangalore, keep cursing Indian Railways for leaving so much money on the table. Honestly no flights for this distance should exist.
Trains every hour, with 50% walk-in seats available across all classes of travel would so amazing.