Concentration and distribution of industries in

India

The distribution of industries in India is highly uneven.This is mainly because of concentration of

financial resources, enterprises and necessary conditions at one place and uneven distribution of major
resources and raw materials. Industry is basically refer to The economic activity that is concerned with
the production of goods, extraction of minerals and the provision of services like iron and steel
industries as the production of goods, coal and mining industry as the instruction of minerals and
tourism industry as a service provider.

The worlds iron and steel industries are concentrated in Japan Germany USA and China, textile
industries in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan and the IT industry which is defined as
the Silicon Valley is mainly concentrated in central Califournia and Bangalore of India.

In case of India, there has always been a problem of over concentration or liberalisation of industries
into some particular region of the country which has been contributing to the problems of unbalance
industrial development, regionalism, industrial Pollution and development of developmental potential.
For example the iron and steel industries of India are concentrated in Dhilai, Durgapur, Jamshedpur,
Rourkella and Bokaro Which are spread over the poor states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and
Chhattisgarh. This industry have chosen the mention states Because of the advantage of the availability
of cheap labour, raw materials and ready-made market.

The steel industries of India I mainly concentrated in Bhadravati and Vijaynagar in Karnataka, Vizag in
Andhra Pradesh, Salim in Tamil Nadu mainly based on their availability and the in and utilising centres of
local resources.

Cotton textile in India has been one of the oldest industries in the world. The muslins of Dhaka, Calico of
Calicut goal drought cotton of Burhanpur Surat and Vadodara are highly demanded fibres in the world
market for the quality and design.

In Gujarat on the banks of Sabarmati River the first textile mill was established in 1859. It soon became
the second largest textile city of India after Mumbai and is known as the Manchester of India. But today
Coimbatore, Kanpur, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Puducherry and Panipat has some
important textile industries concentrated within the same locality. The main reason of the concentration
of the textile industries in these mention parts of India are-They are very close to the cotton growing
areas ensuring Ensuring availability of new row materials, climate Bing ideal for spinning, weaving and
manufacturing. The land is very suitable for the establishment of
This particular type of industries. The dense population of the state provide skilled and semiskilled
labourers, well developed infrastructure like the roads and railways, air connectivity, location of the
ports nearby

Facilitates easy access to the local and international market.

The IT industry has suddenly become global in a decline. The main factors guiding the localisation of this
industry our resource of ability, cost and infrastructure. Bangalore in India is the hub of Information
technology and now Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Cochin, Chandigarh and
Tiruvananthapuram are important centres of the IT industry and the concentration is mainly because of
the pleasant land, skilled workforce, presence of high-quality education, technological and scientific
centres and easy access to market.

Based on agriculture we have many Agro-based industries in India like cotton textiles, wool and silk
textiles, synthetic fibres, jute textiles, sugar and paper industry, vegetable oil industry, UNANI and
Ayurvedic industry et cetera. India exports to Japan, USA, UK Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and majority
to some African countries. Majority of such industries are in Bihar Orissa Uttar Pradesh, and Bengal.
Sugar canes are concentrated in Punjab, Bihar Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh
as raw materials and labour are easily available in such localities. However, the textile industries in India
is the largest Agro-based industry accounting for 20% of industrial output and offering employment to
over 20 million individuals and contributing nearly 32% of the global exports.

The auto mobile industry are also worth mentioning in India and they may be concentrated in Mumbai,
Chennai, Jamshedpur and Faridabad. These centres produce all sorts of vehicles including trucks buses
passenger cars, two wheelers, three wheelers etc. At present there are more than 14,000+ auto mobile
companies in India. The main reason for the concentration of the localisation is availability of raw
materials like steel, non-ferrous with metals, glass and plastic, rubber, paint and electronic cables, seat
cushions, etc and trained labour, easy transport and availability of entrepreneurs has led to the
concentration of the auto mobile industries in the mentioned states of India.