Wednesday, November 4, 2009

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND INDUSTRIAL REGIONALISATION IN INDIA

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND INDUSTRIAL REGIONALISATION IN INDIA

As discussed earlier, the location of an industry is influenced by many factors. Since these factors do not exist everywhere, the industries tend to develop in clusters. In India, industrial clustering has taken place in only certain regions due to some advantages. According to B. N. Sinha's classification, there are three types of industrial clusters which are identified on the basis of the number of manu­facturing units situated in close proximity, and on the basis of the industrial environment. The three types are as follows.

1. Major Industrial Clusters Those employing a mini­mum daily number of 15 lakh workers. There are six such clusters (discussed in detail later in the chapter).

2. Minor Industrial Clusters Those employing 2,50,000 workers daily. These include the Assam valley, Darjeeling Duars, north Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh plains, Kanpur, Indore-Ujjain-Nagda, Nagpur-Wardha, Sholapur, Kolhapur-Sangli, Godavari-Krishna delta, Belgaum-Dharwar, Malabar- Trichur, Quilon and Chennai.

3. Industrial Districts Those employing a daily mini­mum of 25,000 workers. These include scattered industrial centres like Jammu, Amritsar, Rampur, Agra, Jaipur, Nizamabad, Tirunelveli, Kutch, Cuttack, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Bhavadra, Raipur, Adilabad, North Arcot and
Ramnathapuram.

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