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Apart from the industrial regions described above there are several minor emerging industrial regions in the country. Some of them are as under:
(i) Kanpur-Lucknow Industrial Region: Cotton, woollen and jute textiles, leather goods, fertilisers, chemical, drugs, pharmaceuticals, electric goods, and light machinery.
(ii) Assam Valley Industrial Region: This region has the industries of petro-chemical, jute and silk textiles, tea-processing industry, paper, plywood, match, and food processing industries. Important industrial centres are: Bongaigaon, Dibrugarh, Digboi, Guwahati, Noonmati, and Tinsukia (Fig. 11.19).
(iii) Daijeeling-Siliguri Industrial Region: Tea-processing industry and tourism.
(iv) North Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh Industrial Region: Sugar, cement, glass, jute, fertilisers, locomotive, paper, and food processing are the main industries of this region. The main industrial centres are Allahabad, Dalmianagar (Bihar), Gorakhpur, Patna, Sultanpur, and Varanasi.
(v) Indore-Ujjain Industrial Region: Main industries are cotton textile, chemicals, drugs, electronic and engineering goods, and food processing.
(vi) Amritsarjalandhar-Ludhiana Industrial Region: Sports goods, cotton and woollen, textiles, hosiery, food-processing, and tourism are tire main industries of this region.
(vii) Nagpur-Wardha Industrial Region: Textiles, engineering, chemicals, and food processing are the main industries of this region.
(viii) Godavari-Krishna Delta: Main industries are iron and steel, ship-building, fertiliser, ricemilling, cotton textile, sugar, fish processing, engineering, and chemicals. Main industrial centres are Guntur, Machlipatnam, Rajamundry, and Vishakhapatnam.
(ix) Dharwar-Belgaum Industrial Region: Cotton textile, chemicals, spices packing, and food processing are the main industries.
(x) Kerala Coast Industrial Region: Main industries of this region are coconut-oil extraction, rice-milling, fish packing, paper, coir-matting, ship- building (Kochi), petroleum refining (Kochi), and chemical and electronic goods.