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in and around Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and

Delhi. Important agro-based industries are cotton textiles, woollen textiles,
silk textiles, jute textiles, sugar, vegetable oil, food processing, etc.

The important mineral-based industries are iron and steel, transport
equipment, machine tools, cement, fertilisers and chemicals.

In addition to the above, the other industries include paper, rubber goods,
heavy electricals, food-processing, utensils, consumer goods, leather goods,

medicines, glass, ceramics, tobacco products and machine tools.

Main Producing Areas or Centres in India

Name of the industry Producing areas or centres

1. Cotton Textiles – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Chennai, Kolkata,

Coimbatore, Kanpur, Varanasi, Hyderabad and
Erode

2. Silk Textiles – Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kanchipuram, Varanasi,
Murshidabad, Srinagar

3. Jute Products – Kolkata and on both sides of the Hugli river.

4. Iron and Steel – Jamshedpur, Durgapur, Bhilai, Rourkela, Bokaro,
Bhadrawati

5. Ship Building – Mumbai, Panaji, Kochi, Vishakhapatnam

6. Aircraft – Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nashik, Lucknow

7. Automobiles – Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Gurgaon, Jamshedpur,
Bengaluru

8. Electronic Goods – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Pune,
Hyderabad, Lucknow

9. Cement – Rupnagar, Bundi, Jamnagar, Dalmia nagar,
Sindri, Chandrapur, Karimnagar, Vijayawada,

Bhadrawati, Kottayam, Baragarh

10. Chemicals – Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Ranchi,
Kolkata, Kanpur

11. Fertilisers – Nangal, Panipat, Gorakhpur, Namrup, Sindri,

Barauni, Neyveli

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