State Highway 49A (SH-49A) also known as Rajiv Gandhi SalaiIT Expressway
/ref> and Rajiv Gandhi IT Expressway or just IT Expressway is a major road connecting

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

with

Mahabalipuram Mamallapuram, also known as Mahabalipuram, is a town in Chengalpattu district in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, best known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 7th- and 8th-century Hindu Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram. It is o ...

Chengalpattu district Chengalpattu District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, in India. The district headquarters is located at Chengalpattu. Chengalpattu district came into existence on 29 November 2019 when it was carved out of Kanchipuram district after ...

. It is 45 km long and was earlier known as the Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR). The road starts from

Madhya Kailash Temple Madhya Kailash ( ta, மத்திய கைலாசம்), also known as Nadukkayilai in Tamil, is a Hindu temple in South Chennai, located at the junction between Sardar Patel Road, Adyar and Rajiv Gandhi Salai. It is located opposite t ...

on Sardar Patel Road in South-East Chennai and terminates on

East Coast Road East Coast Road (ECR), combination of SH-49, NH-332A, NH-32, officially known as Mutthamizh Arignar Kalaignar Road, is a two-lane highway (now being partially upgraded to four-lane way from Chennai to Mamallapuram) in Tamil Nadu, India, built ...

near

. The prestigious TIDEL Park, home to a number of BPO and IT/ITES companies and many other major IT/ITES Companies in the country are situated along the Rajiv Gandhi Salai. Prominent technical and educational Institutions, national research laboratories are also located along the Corridor. Besides, State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (SIPCOT) has developed a Cyber City, spread over 2000 acres in

Siruseri Siruseri is a southern suburb of Chennai, India. It is a village under Thiruporur panchayat union in Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, and is 35 km from Chennai, along the Old Mahabalipuram Road. It is located between Navalur and Kelambakk ...

, abutting the IT Corridor. Many IT/ITES Companies have set up their facilities in the Cyber City. Based on development and growth of OMR road, it was categorized as 2 major zones. Zone-1 is from Madhya Kailash to Sholinganallur and Zone-2 is from Sholinganallur to Kelambakkam.

Toll plazas

There are two toll plazas on OMR and three on the roads leading to OMR. * Entrance toll plaza at Seevaram (

Perungudi Perungudi is a neighbourhood of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated about south of Adyar. It is bordered on two sides by the Old Mahabalipuram Road and the Perungudi lake. It is situated on the Old Mahabalipuram IT Expre ...

) * Exit plaza at Egattur * Satellite toll plaza on 200 feet

Thoraipakkam Thoraipakkam (Tamil: துரைப்பாக்கம்) also spelt Thuraipakkam, also known as Okkiyam Thuraipakkam or Oggiyamduraipakkam, is an area of Chennai, India. It is one of the stops on what is called as the IT expressway, on Ol ...

Pallavaram Pallavaram (originally Pallava Puram) is a residential neighborhood of Chennai, India. Pallavaram was a part of Alandur until August 2015 and since then a new taluk with headquarters at Pallavaram was created. The town is known for its canto ...

radial road * Satellite toll plaza on

Sholinganallur Sholinganallur, also spelled Solinganalloor or Sozhinganalloor, is a locality in the southern part of Chennai, India. Etymology The etymology given by Tamil scholars is "chola" + "angam" + "nallur" , which indicates that Sholinganallur was on ...

Medavakkam Medavakkam is a southern suburb of Chennai in Tambaram taluk of Chengalpattu district, which is adjacent to the neighbourhood of Sholinganallur, Madipakkam, Selaiyur, Keelkattalai, Velachery and Tambaram and it is center place to the develop ...

link road * Satellite toll plaza on Sholinganallur-ECR link road (Kalaignar Karunanidhi Salai)

Gallery

File:OMR Road.jpg, Seen from CIT Campus File:TNRDC-OMR-Toll-Plaza-Perungudi.jpg, Perungudi Toll Plaza File:Traffic in IT corridor.JPG, Traffic near TIDEL Park Junction File:TECCI PARK IN CHENNAI - MARCH 04 2010.JPG, Tecci Park File:Ascendas IT Park Chennai.JPG, Ascendas IT Park Chennai File:Fire Junction at IT Corridor.JPG, TIDEL Park File:IT corridor.JPG, TIDEL Park bus stop File:IT corridor with bus bay.JPG, TIDEL Park bus stop (alternate view) File:Ramanujan IT City.jpg, Ramanujan IT City at Taramani, Chennai File:Service road to TIDEL Park.JPG , Service road to TIDEL Park File:IT corridor2.JPG , Service road and IT corridor with MRTS line in the background File:Omr sipcot.jpg , Siruseri SIPCOT

References

External links

The Federation of OMR Residents Associations

Newindpress - One for the Road

SIPCOT IT Park map
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Toll plazas

Gallery

See also

References

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