Saji Sir, the point was that the entrepreneurs directly and indirectly support the rich agriculture produce from the sixty odd villages, spread over a distance of one hundred kilometers.
I will try to explain how. Coimbatore is home to atleast 40000 such entrepreneurs engaged in sub-contract services as well as pure services as traders in wholesale sarees sourced from Gujarat, entrepreneurs who run medium sized hotels,buy and sell agricultural produce like milk products and so on from the villages.
Now,Coimbatore is a huge market for weddings and the support of these entrepreneurs is massive for at least 200 days in a year. I do not know if you know --Coimbatore is superbly connected to Bangalore and Chennai by train and hundreds of buses. So, the Coimbatore entrepreneurs also make money trading in the two big metro cities and then conduct lavish weddings. Today, am told, there are 200 wedding contractors who cater to weddings attended by even 5000 people. Now, one such person hails from a village near Mettupalayam and he had in fact cooked for the great Modi and his gang when they were in Coimbatore. Now, fruits, vegetables,and so on, come from Pollachi as well. Perhaps you know the quality of Pollachi coconuts that are also exported. The coconut water from Pollachi is the sweetest in India.
Well, one feeds another and when the buyers are rich, the farmer does not lose. Hope you get the picture.
Another allied information, though it is not directly relevant to this thread. Both Pollachi and another very beautiful town called Gobichettipalayam that is around 150 minutes by bus, are centers for most Hindi movies. Am told that the cash flow in these rural pockets,(call them semi-urban,but they are basically busy towns as centre of some sixty rich villages for agricultural trading), is very good as well. Repeat, this has no direct relevance to the thread, but when one feeds the other, we can possibly have far better balanced approach to comprehensive development of the service sector.
