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Industrial location depends on raw materials, power, labour, capital, market and transport. Classic belts include Hugli, Mumbai-Pune, Bengaluru-Tamil Nadu, Ahmedabad-Vadodara, and the iron-and-steel-driven Chotanagpur belt. Newer IT/ITeS clusters (Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR) are talent-driven rather than raw-material-driven.
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