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Trichy: With defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman scheduled to visit the city on Sunday to launch projects under Tamil Nadu defence industrial corridor scheme, trade bodies are planning to demand investments in the space available at Manapparai Sipcot. As the defence minister is expected to chair the event, trade bodies have prepared representations on behalf of Trichy-based entrepreneurs to be submitted to the minister. “We have planned to demand a facilitation centre for the defence industrial corridor at Trichy, particularly near Ordnance Factory Trichy (OFT) to enable MSMEs to benefit from the scheme. Meanwhile, as civil works for completing the Trichy Junction RoB near Mannarpuram awaits 0.66 acre of defence land, city development groups have planned to apprise the minister of the need of land to expedite the pending project. As the defence ministry has planned to produce as many as 1,600 items locally, an announcement on establishing an innovation hub for domestic defence production at Coimbatore is to be made at the Sunday’s event..