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Salem Collectorate Cannon at Salem Corporation headquarters. Salem is the headquarters of Salem district. The town was constituted as a municipality in 1867, and was upgraded to a special-grade municipality in 1979 and to a municipal corporation on 1 April 1994. The Salem municipal corporation has 72 wards, [31] each with an elected councillor ...
The highway runs through the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, connecting various important cities and towns such as Salem, Erode, Coimbatore, Palakkad, Thrissur and Kochi. It is a spur of National Highway 44, which forms the North South Corridor of the National Highway network of India.It passes south of Coimbatore. NH544 is the only highway in ...
Salem has six arterial roads: Omalur Road, Cherry Road, Saradha College Road, Junction Main Road, Trichy Road and Attur Road. Three National Highways originate in or pass through: NH 44 (Srinagar via Madurai and Tirunelveli Kanyakumari), NH 544 (Salem – Kochi via Coimbatore)and NH 79 (Salem – Ulundurpet). [14]
The Salem Metropolitan Area is the 10 most populous metropolitan area in India. It is the third [2] most populous metropolitan area [3] in Tamil Nadu, only after Chennai and Coimbatore and Madurai and Trichy as The Salem Metropolitan Area consist of the city of Salem and its suburbs in Salem district.
The city's vision emphases upon enlightening the city's potentials and eliminating its weakness. Salem is known for its industrial base and has varied small scale commercial business. The Coimbatore – Bangalore Industrial corridor and Coimbatore – Salem Industrial corridor proposals paves way for economic development in the city.
Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Salem are the largest urban areas in the region. The majority of the people in the region speak Kongu Tamil, a variant of Tamil language. While the region is a significant contributor to the economy of the state, disparity remains within various districts in the region.
Salem Railway Division is the newest division of the Southern Railway Zone of Indian Railways. It was carved out of the Palakkad railway division and Tiruchirappalli railway division . It was inaugurated on 14 November 2006 in the presence of Arjun Singh and the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu , M. Karunanidhi .
In Salem District alone, 34000 hectares of land is under tapioca cultivation which is the raw material for the sago industries and there are 650 units engaged in tapioca processing. In and around Salem the yield of tapioca is about 25-30 T/ha, highest in the World. National average is 19 T/ha and World average production stands at 10 T/ha. [12]