The Chhotanagpur Plateau Region

The Chhotanagpur Plateau Region The factors which favoured industrialisation of this region include the following.

(i) Discovery of coal and iron in the Bihar-Orissa belt, and location of these resources in close proximity to each other facilitated easy utilisation.
(ii) Easy availability of power from the Damodar Valley Project and from coal-based thermal power projects helped in industrialisation.
(iii) Availability of cheap labour from Bihar, Orissa and eastern Uttar Pradesh was of great advantage.
(iv) Proximity to port and access to large market in the vicinity also worked to the advantage of this belt.

The important nodal centres in the Chhotanagpur region.t\clpde Ranchi, Dhanbad, Chaibasa, Sindri, Hazarib­agh, Jamshedpur, Daltonganj, Garwa and Japla. The impor­tant industries in this region include iron and steel, heavy engineering, machine tools, fertilisers, cement, paper, loco­motives and heavy electricals.