Mumbai-Pune industrial region
Topic: Manufacturing Industries of India: Location and Distribution · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Mumbai-Pune industrial region is a large factory belt in western Maharashtra. It runs from Mumbai and Thane to Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Nashik. It began with cotton mills in Mumbai, after the first successful mill opened there in 1854. Mumbai's port, its market and its banks helped it grow. Later, oil from Bombay High (an offshore oilfield) and hydel power (electricity from falling water) from the Western Ghats helped new industries come up. Today the region makes engineering goods, cars, chemicals, petrochemicals (chemicals made from oil and gas) and medicines, and it also has IT firms. It shows how an old textile region can move into modern industry.
Example
Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, about 150 kilometres south-east of Mumbai, grew into a major centre for cars and engineering. The old cotton mill areas of Mumbai city have since given way to services and lighter industry.
Don't confuse with
- Gujarat industrial region: it lies to the north, around Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat. It also began with textiles, but it grew into petrochemicals, fertilisers and diamonds, with oil and gas from Cambay.
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