ABSTRACT
Much of India’s factory industry is concentrated in a few regions and major cities. Bombay and Calcutta are outstanding centres of light industry, while most of the capacity of India’s iron and steel industry is concentrated in a few centres to the west of Calcutta where production on modern lines began in the 1930s. The modern iron and steel industry of India was greatly expanded in the 1950s mainly in the public-sector Steel Authority of India, with financial and technical assistance from West European countries and the USSR. The location of the main steelworks from this period is shown in Figure 14.3.
