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Ankleshwar

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Ankleshwar
Aṁkalēśvara
Ankaleshwar
City
Country India
State Gujarat
DistrictBharuch
Government
 • TypeMunicipal Corporation
 • BodyBharuch Municipal Corporation
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)

Ankleshwar (sometimes written Ankaleshwar; ISO: Aṁkalēśvara) is a town and a municipality in the Bharuch district in the state of Gujarat, India. The city is located 14 kilometres from Bharuch.

Industry

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Ankleshwar Industrial Association (AIA) is the largest organisation of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, where over 2000 industries are registered.[citation needed]

Ankleshwar is a hub of the chemical industry in India. One aggregation of plants, the Ankleshwar Industrial Estate, produces more than 5 percent of India's output of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals and dyes. Pollution is regulated by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, which charges the AIA with self-enforcement of its constituent organisations.[1]

Transport

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Ankleshwar is connected by Indian National Highway 8 (Mumbai to New Delhi) and by the Western Railway Division of Indian Railways. The railway division runs the broad gauge train services to Rajpipla. The 140-year-old (2021) Golden Bridge built in (1881) connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch across the Narmada on the station front while a new bridge connects the highway, the other bridge made by L&T on the highway is now ready to use.

Ankleshwar railway station is centrally located at the intersection of NH8 & Station Road.

Ankleshwar City Bus stand is located on Station Road (i.e. located in the City, the western section).

Development project of Ankleshwar Airport & City Bus are in pipe line in the last stage.

Notable people

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Anklesaria, a toponymic surname for Ankleshwar, is found among Parsis from India:

References

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  1. ^ Sarkar, Runa (2017). Business, institutions, environment. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-0-19-807544-8. Retrieved 5 February 2024.