Industrial Region of India

Industrial Region
• Industrial regions are those places where industries have
concentrated as a result of favourable geo-economic circumstances.
These are places where a sizable portion of the population works in
the manufacturing sector.
• An industrial area is typically much larger, like the Ruhr in Germany,
or even makes up a sizeable portion of the entire nation, like
the Midlands in the UK.
• It is frequently built around a natural resource, most frequently
coal, iron ore, or a water source. It is typically well-served by
transportation routes, such as rail, and may not be homogenous,
meaning that there may be a variety of unrelated manufacturing
kinds in a single location. So, in an industrial region, you might find
service sectors like education, primary food processing, steel
manufacturing, and power generation.
• Several geographers have tried to experimentally delineate
industrial regions. However, the criteria each of them uses are
different.
 Indices are used to identify the clustering of
industries/Industrial region

• The number of industrial units

• A number of industrial workers.
• The population engaged in secondary activities.
• Percentage of industrial workers to the total
workers.
• Total industrial output (Gross industrial output).
• Production in terms of money
• India’s industrial regions were first separated by
Trewartha and Burner in 1944. P.P. Karan and W.M.
Jenkrins (1959) subsequently defined India’s industrial
areas.
• Spencer and Thomas (1968), R.L. Singh (1971), B.N.
Sinha (1972), M.R. Chaudhry (1976), and the Centre for
Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) also identified the
industrial areas of India (1971, 1982).
• Alfred Marshall first used the term “Industrial district”
to refer to a few features of the industrial organisation
of countries. An industrial district (ID) is a location
where people who work and reside in the primary
industry and related industries do so.
 Hierarchy of Indian Industrial Unit
• Dr. B.N. Sinha (1972) has classified industrial
regions:
• Major Industrial Region
• Minor Industrial Region
• Manufacturing District
 Major Industrial Region

1.Mumbai-Pune Industrial Region

2. Hugli Industrial Region
3.Bangalore-Tamilnadu Industrial Region
4. Gujarat Industrial Region
5. Chotanagpur Industrial Region
6. Vishakhapatnam- Guntur Industrial Region
7. Gurgaon- Delhi- Meerut Industrial Region
8. Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram Industrial Region
 Minor Industrial region
• 1. Ambala-Amritsar in Haryana-Punjab
• 2. Saharanpur-Muzaffarnagar-Bijnaur in Uttar Pradesh
• 3. Indore-Dewas-Ujjain in MP
• 4. Jaipur –Ajmer in Rajasthan
• 5. Kolhapur-South Kannada in Maharastra-Karnataka
• 6. Northern Malabar in Kerala
• 7. Middle Malabar in Kerala
• 8. Adilabad-Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh
• 9. Allahabad –Varanasi- Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh
• 10. Bhojpur-Munger in Bihar
• 11. Durg-Raipur in Chattisgarh
• 12. Bilaspur- Korba in Chattisgarh
• 13. Brahmaputra valley in Assam
 Industrial Districts
• 1. Kanpur
• 2. Hyderabad
• 3. Agra
• 4. Nagpur
• 5. Gwalior
• 6. Bhopal
• 7. Lucknow
• 8. Jaipaiguri
• 9. Cuttack
• 10. Gorakhpur
• 11. Aligarh
• 12. Kota
• 13. Purnia
• 14. Jabalpur
• 15. Bareilly