Sholinganallur
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Sholinganallur is a suburb of Chennai located on the IT corridor south of Chennai in the India
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 of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

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Demographics

India census
Census
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, Sholinganalur had a population of 15,519.

Sholinganallur's economy,population and infrastructure are growing at a rapid pace due to the high concentration Information Technology business Parks and dedicate Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Sholinganallur is surrounded by other IT based suburbs such as Siruseri, Perungudi, Taramani.

Sholinganallur is well connected by road ways. Sholinganallur is located at the Junction connecting ECR to Tambaram and Adayar to Mahabalipuram.
This is center of IT Highway. Many IT companies are located within 5 km. Land and property price appreciated many folds due to drastic modernization of the suburb and ever increasing presence of Global organizations.

IT companies like Trident Solutions, American Megatrends, Accenture, Ebay, Paypal, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and HCL are located here.
Factories like Dollar biscuit company and Multi Vista Global Ltd.

Tamil Nadu Government's TIDCO is building a Financial City in Sholinganallur to house global financial corporations.

Popular restaurants such as Agusthya, Ponnusamy (Chettinad), Daawath (Mougal)and Thamburan(Malabar) are located here. Hanumaya mess and Bhaskar Andhra Mess, are two local low budget Cafeteria popular with people from all walks of life is also located here.

Popular budget serviced apartments like SGA Homes (Adjacent to the Infosys IT Park) and nested as a conjunction to all the software companies stated above,which offers budget stay for the corporates with a pleasant stay with homely food and a homely atmosphere much different from the other places of stay...sometimes claimed by guests to be a second home from their home www.sgahomeschennai.com
2 km away from ECR./

Sholinganallur is newly added to Chennai Corporation umbrella.

Sholinganallur is the biggest constituency in terms of voters

Bus Routes Connecting From Chennai City

M19A, 19B, 19D, 19P, 21H, H21, M51, C51, T51, T151, 119B, M119A, M119, 517k, 519, 519T, 521, 523, 552k 570



M19A : Kelambakkam - Thiyagaraya Nagar ( via chettinad hospitals,siruseri,navalur,sathyabama university,sholinganallur jn,ptc qtrs,jain college,thoraipakkam,perungudi,kandanchavadi,srp tools,thiruvanmiyur,adyar,IIT campus,anna university,saidapet )


19B : Kelambakkam - Saidapet (via chettinad hospitals, siruseri, snallur, perungudi, Tidel park, madhya kailash, saidapet


19B :(volvo) Kelambakkam - Thiyagaraya Nagar (via same as above 19B but goes upto T Nagar)


19D : Chemenchery - Adayar Bus stand (via: Infosys, sholinganallur, TCS(pettai), PTC, thoraipakkam, perungudi, SRP, Thiruvanmiyur)


19P : Kelambakkam - Adayar Bus stand (via Puthupakkam)

21H :(volvo & AC) Kelambakkam - Broadway

H21 : Chemenchery - Broadway

M51 : Sholinganallur - Thiyagaraya Nagar (via Medavakkam, Velachery)

C51 : Tambaram - Adayar Bus stand (via ECR)

T51 : Tambaram - Tiruvanmiyur

T151 : Tambaram - Kovalam (via medavakam, sholinganallur, kelambakkam)

119B : chemenchery - Guindy (via Adayar)

M119A: Chemenchery - Thiyagaraya Nagar (via velachery, guindy)

M119 : Chemenchery - Guindy (via velachery)

517K : Pallavaram - Kovalam (via medavakam, sholinganallur, kelambakkam)

519 : Tiruporur - Thiyagaraya nagar (via Madhya kailash)

519T : Thaiyur - Adayar

521 : Tiruporur - Broadway

523 : Perunthandalam - tiruvanmiyur

552K : Tiruporur - Kilkatalai (via Medavakam, sholinganallur)


570 :(volvo & Deluxe)Kelambakkam - CHENNAI MOFFUSIL BUS TERMINUS (CMBT) (via siruseri, perungudi, velacheri, guindy, ashok pillar, vadapalani)



568C:(volvo) Mammalapuram - CHENNAI MOFFUSIL BUS TERMINUS(CMBT) (via Poonjeri, AVIT college, Kelambakkam, Tidel Park, IIT Madras, guindy, ashok pillar, vadapalani)


219A:(volvo) Kelambakkam - Ambattur Ind Estate(only morning and evening peak hour service)


119 - (TNSTC Villupuram) : Kalpakkam to Chennai ( via: Mamallapuram )


TO CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION

Currently there are no direct buses to Central Railway Station. You can take 21H to reach Broadway from there take any 17series (17M, 17D....) buses to reach central station which is 10mins drive in bus

TO EGMORE RAILWAY STATION

Currently there are no direct buses to Egmore Railway Station. You can take 21H, M5, C51.... buses which goes via Adyar Depot and get down either at Adyar Depot or Adyar Gandhinagar bus stop and get into 23C which will directly goto the Egmore Railway Station. You can also board 23C(Deluxe Buses alone) from Thiruvanmyiur also.

Banks and ATM's

The first bank that came to sholinganallur was INDIAN BANK.Due to the large amount of IT companies started marching towards this place, many banks started opening their branches here. The lists are as follows

1. ICICI Bank and ATM

2. Karur Vysya Bank and ATM

3. Canara Bank and ATM ( also in Classic Farms)

4. State Bank of Hyderabad (near Classic Farms)

5. State Bank of Travancore Bank & ATM (on Medavakkam Road)

6. State Bank of India Bank and ATM (above sri Lakshmi Iyengar Bakery)

7. TamilNad Mercantile Bank and ATM (next to Canara Bank)

8. HDFC ATM only (next to SBI ATM)

9. Indian Overseas Bank & ATM (on Medavakam road, in Mohamad shatak college campus)

10.Corp Bank (ATM only)

Hospitals

There are three nearby multi-speciality hospitals are located around sholinganallur, They are

1. Global Hospitals (3.2 km on Medavakam road)

2. Chettinad Hospitals (14.0 km in kelambakkam)

3. LifeLine Multi speciality Hospital (7.6 km. It is in perungudi)

4. Ragas Dental college (4 km. Situated in Akkarai(ECR))

5. Sathyabama Dental College (3km next to Sathyabama university)

6. Swaram Hospitals (a 24hr Hospital)

Hotels

Two great 5 star hotels are available at Sholinganallur.

Starwood group of hotels opened their ALOFT Hotel here

Asiana hotel is located in semmencherry 2kms away from sholinganallur junction

Churches

There are seven prominent churches in the area, namely - Living Spring English Church (Assemblies of God), Fountain of Life Assemblies of God Church (AG Church), Evangelical Church of India (ECI), Church of South India (CSI), Advent Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Housing

Tamil Nadu Government's TNHB has created a satellite township at Shollinganallur with IT Parks,arterial roads,schools,parks,play grounds and bus Terminus.The TNHB township of 4000 dwellings is situated next to the up coming 200 acre (0.809372 km²)

Rs1000 crore National Maritime university complex.

DLF India's largest building company is currently building 3500 apartment complex in Sholinganallur,this complex will have a hospital, school and other amenities.

The suburbs population continues to grow rapidly as more and more employees and family of IT professionals (employed in the neighborhood) continue to move in and take up residence at sholinganallur.

Proximity to employment opportunities, good asset appreciation,outstanding road Infrastructure,proximity to beaches at ECR and other entertainment venues continues to attract more residence to this suburb.

IT corridor

Sholinganallur is home to a number of BPO and IT/ITES companies. Almost all major IT/ITES companies like Mahindra Satyam, Wipro http://www.wipro.com, HCL Tech, Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...

, Accenture India
Accenture
Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...

, ebay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

, Infosys
Infosys
Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,...

, are situated in Sholinganallur. SIPCOT IT Park
SIPCOT IT Park
SIPCOT IT Park is the largest Information Technology Park in Asia, located in Padur, Siruseri, along the IT Corridor, Chennai, India. It is developed in 1000 acres of land by SIPCOT, the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu, a fully government-owned institution.-Companies:* Tata...

 and Asiana Hotel are situated in Siruseri
Siruseri
Siruseri is a suburb of Chennai, India in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, located a 30 km south of the city, along Old Mahabalipuram Road...

 right next to Sholinganallur. All IT bigwigs like Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL Tech, CTS,Mahindra Satyam have their own facilities in Sholinganallur. Aloft Hotel a group of W Hotels and Hyundai car showroom is in the sholingnallur junction.

Colleges

Important colleges in Sholinganallur include Jeppiaar Engineering College
Jeppiaar Engineering College
The Jeppiaar Educational Trust was formed in 1987. Jeppiaar Engineering College is one of the institutions of Jeppiaar Educational Trust and was established on 15 August 2001...

, Sathyabama University, St. Marys School of Management Studies, Jeppiaar SRR engineering college, St. Joseph's College of Engineering
St. Joseph's College of Engineering
St. Joseph's College of Engineering is a higher education institution in Chennai, India. It is under the administration of the Jeppiaar Educational Trust, and is a tier-1 institution of Tamil Nadu. The college is affiliated to the Anna University.-External links:...

, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering.,Shree Motilal Kanhaiyalal Fomra Institute of Technology (13 km from Sholinganallur), Mohamed Sathak College of Arts and Sciencehttp://www.sathaktrust.com/, Anand Institute of Technology (8 km from Sholinganallur).NTTF Information Technology Centre Nr MTL Sholinganallur, Head Office Telichery Kannur.National maritime University,the first in India is currently being built in Sholinganallur. The university complex will also house an Aquarium, National Maritime Museum, Food Courts, Hotel and a residential complex. The Ministry of Shipping is seeking public private partnership to build a five star hotel in the complex.

Schools

  • GOVT.Higher Seconary School. (Some greatest and honourable person are studied here..)

  • Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • Gateway The Complete School - An international school off OMR.
  • Ellen sharma Matriculation Higher Secondary School
  • Bala Vidya Mandir (BVM Global,Bollineni Hill side)
  • Amelio Early Learning Center (Pre school for Kids)

Sholinganallur Prathyangira Devi Temple

The town is well renowned for this temple, Shri Maha Prathyangira Devi Temple where the Goddess throned gigantic and powerful. Many devotees from various parts of the country regularly visit here. The temple is located close to the junction and half way down the link road of ECR and OMR.

Connectivity

It is well connected with the city with MTC & TNSTC-villupuram buses as mentioned above and many share autorichshaws. It is an important junction in south chennai for entry and exit. It is at a distance of 14.3km from Tambaram (one of the biggest south chennai's exit and entry point), 2km away from East Coast Road(ECR), 34.8 km away from Mamallapuram ( one of chennai's most important tourist spot ) and 13.5km away from Adyar(chennai)

See also

  • http://www.livingspring.co.in/ - Living Spring English Church, Sholinganallur.
  • http://www.sacredheartsholinganallur.com/ -Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School,sholinganallur
  • Prathyangira Devi Temple, Shollinganallur
  • Sholinganallur: Panoramic view

External links

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