Thervaay Kandigai is a village in

Tiruvallur District Thiruvallur District, also spelled as Tiruvallur District, is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The fast developing city of Tiruvallur is the district headquarters. The district has a mixture ...

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state of

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. It has about 5000 inhabitants. It is considered as the second largest village in Thiruvallur district and it is also considered that the village has more graduates than any other villages in Thiruvallur district. The village is about 50 km North of

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

Michelin Michelin ( , ), in full ("General Company of the Michelin Enterprises P.L.S."), is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes '' région'' of France. It is the second largest t ...

has built a tyre factory in Thervaay Kandigai. Many of the inhabitants of this village work in Michelin and in other companies which is built in Thervaay Kandigai Industrial park. The first building has been opened officially in May 2011. A Thervaay Kandigai Industrial Park exists. Michelin has invested 40 billions there. The factory endangers the

rainforests Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ...

being the livelihood of the population.

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Villages in Tiruvallur district Michelin {{Tiruvallur-geo-stub