Industrial towns in India

1. Industrial towns
in India
S.Prabhakar
M.Plan – sem II

2. What is an industry…?
•The companies and activities involved in
something that is produced or is available in
large quantities ( ex: ore and minerals )

3. What is an industrial town…?
•An industrial town is a city where the economic
system is based on the industry, such as a
mining town.


•An area where workers of a monolithic heavy
industry live within walking-distance of their
places of work.

4. Industrialization in India
• In 1750, India produced nearly 25 % of the
world's manufacturing output.
•Coal mining was a profitable business
during British colonial times.
•19
th
century, textile industry.
•1870, Bengal Iron Works.
•Tata Steel in 1907.
•20
th
century, automobile industry.

5. Case studies
•Mining Industry - Neyveli
•Textile Industry - Thirupur
•Steel Industry - Jhamshedpur
•Automobile Industry- Mahendra city

6. NEYVELI
•The Neyveli Township was developed after
mining of lignite started under the Neyveli
Lignite Corporation (NLC) in 1956.
•Neyveli Town is located at an average elevation
of 87 metres.
•The Neyveli Township was developed after
mining of lignite started under the Neyveli
Lignite Corporation (NLC) .

7. STRUCTURE OF NEYVELI
TOWN
•The Township of Neyveli is one of the modern,
well-planned townships in India.
•The residential area of the township alone
extends over 50 square Kms.
•There are 32 blocks in total (1000 m by 700 m
in size )
•The housing quarters are around 15,000 in
number with varying building types.

9. INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES
• Round-the-clock, water and electricity facilities.
• It also uses well-maintained, underground
sanitation system, unlike some of the other
cities in Tamil Nadu.
•General Hospital at Block-6 and several
dispensaries at various other places.
•It was well facilitated with adequate educational
institutions.

10. •There are three big parks in the township area -
'Golden Jubilee Park' , 'Nehru Park' and the
'Navratra Park’.
•The Lignite City Club.

12. Transportation facility
•Transport inside the township is managed by
the Bus Services, again a department under NLC.
•Bounded by two major national highways
NH-45c and NH-532.
•Neyveli has a railway station which lies on the
Cuddalore-Salem railway line.

13. THIRUPUR
•Tirupur popularly known as “Banian City”.
•It is started as a cluster of small and medium
manufacturing enterprises gainfully engaged in
the production and export of a range of knitted
apparels.
•Mr. Gulam Kadar in 1937 established “Baby
Knitting Industries” in Kaderpet area of
Tirupur followed by a woman, Mrs
Chellammal, in the name of Chellemmal
Knitting.

14. REASON TO BECOME AN
INDUSTRIAL TOWN
•Since agriculture was not flourishing due to
poor rainfall, the industry served as an
alternative source of employment.
•The town lies roughly in the middle of a cotton
belt.
•Tirupur has long been a thriving centre for the
sale and processing of raw cotton and has for
many years had a large exchange and market for
cotton.

16. •The ready local availability of this raw material
has helped to facilitate the development of the
knitwear industy in Tirupur.

17. STRUCTURE OF TIRUPUR
TOWN
• The city is mainly points of trade.
• Production is spread in rural and small-town
clusters around these cores, and closely
connected to them.
•The expansion of sub-contracting and the
inflow of capital from agriculture helped the
industry to grow rapidly.
•In Tirupur its organization in house hold
workshops started mostly by owned funds of
enterprising individuals.

19. INFRASTRUCTURE
• National Institute of Fashion Technology
(NIFT) has established its centre to provide
training in the area of fashion, design skills etc.
•Developmental financial institutions like SIDBI
also operate from this town to facilitate
industrial activities.
• The Apparel Export Promotion Council
(AEPC) has a full- fledged office in Tirupur.

20. TRANSPORTATION

21. Jhamshedpur
•Jamshedpur is the first planned industrial city of
India.
• It is the largest and the most populous Urban
Agglomeration in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
•It is one of the Global Compact Cities.
•Jamshedpur is the only million plus city in India
without a municipal corporation.

22. REASON TO BECOME AN
INDUSTRIAL TOWN
•It is rich in iron ore, coal, manganese bauxite
and lime.
•The identification of Sakchi in 1907 as the
ideal site for the steel plant was just the
beginning of a long journey of transformation.
•Jamshedpur is located at the confluence of
Kharkai and Subarnarekha Rivers.
•Several lakes of varying size are also located
near the fringes of the city.

23. STRUCTURE OF TATA NAGAR

24. INFRASTRUCTURE
•The National Metallurgical Laboratory is
located here.
• Dimna Lake is an artificial reservoir and one of
the main sources for the city's drinking water.
•Jamshedpur has a reputation as the sports
capital of Jharkhand with lot of sports academy
and complexes.
•Jubilee park which was a gift by Tata Steel to
the citizens of Jamshedpur on the completion
of its 50 years.

25. TRANSPORTATION
•The city is well connected via rail and road
services.
•Tatanagar Junction is a railway junction is the
important railway junction.
•NH32, NH33, 4 lane Expressway (Adityapur-
Kandra Road) connects Jamshedpur to Barbil.
•Sonari Airport is a tiny airport serving the city
at present.

26. MAHENDRA WORLD CITY
• Mahindra World City was set up in the year
2002 in Chennai.
• It presently has over 62 global companies and
33,000 employees.
•Mahindra World City, Chennai is the first
functional Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in
India.

27. STRUCTURE OF MAHENDRA
CITY
•The layout of the city is broken up in to Zones
by the utility of the land.
•There are 3 sector-specific Special Economic
Zones
IT (Services and Manufacturing)
 Auto Ancillaries and Apparel and Fashion Accessories, a
Domestic Tariff Area.
 Residential / Social zone.

29. INFRASTRUCTURE AND
TRANSPORTATION
•It is facilitated with all the basic infra structure.
•Situated on the NH 45, Mahindra World City
is located 50 km from Chennai city.
•Paranur railway station is a public private
partnership initiative between Mahindra World
City and Southern Railways.
•Since it is nearer to chennai it enjoys all the
benefits of chennai.

30. INDUSTRIAL TOWNS

31. CONCLUSION
What ever may be the advantage, and
however benefited the community who forgotten
their roots may not rise up.

32. Thank you