Question

Ankleshwar is famous for________?
a. Gold mining
b. Petrochemical industry
c. Manufacturing industry
d. Wheat production

Answer 1

Hint: In the economic development of a country, this industry plays a vital role. They supply other industries and finished goods with essential and usable raw materials. Today, almost every field of the petrochemical industry influences different segments of our lives, such as housing, clothes, agriculture, horticulture, furniture, construction, vehicles, irrigation, medical equipment, electrical and electronics, etc.

Complete answer:
Ankleshwar is a town and a municipality in the Bharuch district of Gujarat State, India. The city lies 14 kilometres from Bharuch. The Ankleshwar Industrial Association is the largest GIDC organisation with the registration of over 2000 industries.

The town is renowned for its GIDC (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation) industrial township. Ankleshwar has an ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Company Limited) branch office. There are more than 1500 chemical plants in Ankleshwar that manufacture products such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and paints. GIDC has occasionally started to organise trade fairs and industrial expositions to attract a large number of industries from all over India. It also helps to get clients on a substantial basis.

The GIDC's primary function is to find places suitable for industrial development and to construct industrial estates with facilities such as highways, drainage, power, water, street lights and ready-to-occupy factory sheds. For specific industries, the infrastructure of certain estates has been constructed; there are electronics estates in Gandhinagar, ceramics and processing estates in Bhavnagar, chemical estates in Vapi, Ankleshwar, Panoli, Nandesari, Naroda.

Hence, the correct answer is option B.

Note:
-Reliance is the country's largest producer of petrochemicals and among the world's top ten.
-The National Organic Chemicals Industries Limited (NOCIL), founded in 1961 in the private sector, was India's first petrochemical industry.