Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Limited Tamil Nadu Petroproducts Limited Tamil Nadu Petro-products Limited is an Indian company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of commodity chemicals. The products are used as raw materials in industries involved in the manufacture of detergents and cleaning agents, lubricants, epoxy resins, pharmaceuticals and textiles. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Chennai, India. It was promoted by the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. (TIDCO). In October 1984, TIDCO inducted Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd. (SPIC) as a joint sector associate in setting up a project for the manufacture of 50,000 tonnes per annum of linear
History of Tamil Nadu in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu was the seventh largest economy in 2005 among the states of India. The growing demands for skilled labour has caused increased number of educational institutions in Tamil Nadu. The widespread application of caste based affirmative action caused the state to have 69% of all educational and employment vacancies to be reserved to the backward castes. Such caste-based reservations have huge public support in Tamil Nadu, with no popular protests organised against its implementation. The politics of Tamil Nadu have gone through three distinct phases since independence. The domination of the Congress Party after 1947