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6 Major industrial clusters regions of India are: 1. Hooghly Industrial Belt 2. Mumbai-Pune Industrial Region 3. Ahmedabad-Vadodara Region 4. Madurai-Coimbatore-Bengaluru Region 5. The Chhotanagpur Plateau Region 6. Agra-Mathura-Meerut-Saharanpur and Faridabad-Gurgaon-Ambala Belts. 1. Hooghly Industrial Belt: This belt developed around Kolkata as the nucleus. The mouth of River Hooghly presented ideal conditions for development of a port. The Ganga and [...]

7 General factors influencing location of industries in India are: 1. Raw Material 2. Energy 3. Transport 4. Labour 5. Water 6. Market 7. New Factors in a Changed Situation. The decision regarding the location of a particular industrial activity is guided by many factors which may be geographical, socio-political, economic and historical. […]

Given below is a survey of important industrial complexes of the world. 1. Europe: Europe is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The industries are concentrated in the north and the west here (Fig. 10.28). United Kingdom: The industries include mainly coal and iron and other metal-based manufacturing industries—metallurgy, heavy engineering, transport equipment, ship-building, textiles, chemicals, glassware, printing, oil refining [...]