Chennai, Feb. 18 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin laid the foundation stone for new TIDEL Parks in Tiruchirapalli and Madurai at a total cost of Rs 717 crore on Tuesday.

Mr Stalin laid the foundation via video-conferencing from the State Secretariat during which he also handed over orders to four differently-abled people appointing them as tutors in TN Government Music Colleges in Chennai and Madurai.

An official release said the two Tidel parks--at Panjappur in Tiruchi to be constructed at a cost of Rs 403 crore and at Mattuthavani in Madurai to be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 314 crore--could house about 12 lakh IT professionals.

While the one at Trichy would be a six-storeyed building with a built-up area of 5.58 la...