Product-specialised industrial towns
Topic: Manufacturing Industries of India: Location and Distribution · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Product-specialised industrial towns are towns where most local industry makes one kind of product. Over the years, skilled workers, raw material suppliers, traders and small units gather in the same place. This helps every firm there. They share skills, suppliers and buyers, so costs go down. Geographers call these savings agglomeration economies (the savings firms get from being close to one another). These towns show agglomeration economies working on a small scale. They matter for local jobs and exports.
Example
Some well-known towns and their products:
- Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu): knitwear
- Surat (Gujarat): diamonds and synthetic cloth
- Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh): brassware
- Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh): glass bangles
- Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): locks
- Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu): fireworks and printing
- Bhadohi (Uttar Pradesh): carpets
- Ludhiana (Punjab): hosiery
- Jalandhar (Punjab): sports goods
- Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh): leather
- Rajkot (Gujarat): engineering
Don't confuse with
- Industrial region: a large area with many different industries, such as the Hugli or Mumbai-Pune region. A product-specialised town is one town built around one product.
Related concepts
- Mumbai-Pune industrial region
- Hugli industrial region
- Bengaluru-Tamil Nadu industrial region
- Gujarat industrial region
- Chota Nagpur industrial region
- Visakhapatnam-Guntur industrial region
- Gurugram-Delhi-Meerut industrial region
- Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram industrial region
- Surat diamond industry
- One District One Product