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State five features each of Gujarat industrial region and chhotanagpur industrial region.

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The five features of the following industrial regions are:
Gujarat Industrial Region:
(i) The nucleus of this region lies between Ahmadabad and Vadodara, though this region extends upto Valsad and Surat in the South.
(ii) The development of this industrial region is mainly due to the cotton textile industry since 1860.
(iii) After the decline of cotton textile from the Mumbai region the region has double advantage of the proximity of raw material and market.
(iv) The discovery of oilfields led to the development of a variety of petrochemical industries in Ankleshwar, Vadodara and Jamnagar.
(v) Petroleum refinery at Koyali provided raw materials to a host of petrochemical industries.
Chotanagpur Industrial Region: This industrial regions extends over Jharkhand, northern Orissa, and western West-Bengal.
(i) This region owes its development to the discovery of coal in the Damodar valley and metallic nonmetallic minerals in Jharkhand and northern Orissa.
(ii) Jamshedpur, Burnpur-Kulti, Durgapur, Bokaro and Rourkela are the prominent integrated iron and steel industry region.
(iii) Power requirement is fulfilled by thermal and hydro electric plants constructed on the Damodar river.
(iv) The densely surrounding region of Bihar, West Bengal, and Orissa provide unskilled and skilled labour force on large scale.
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