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Analyse the spatial distribution of India’s automobile industry. How have the clusters like Chennai, Pune and Gurugram emerged as key auto-hubs?

  • UPSC 2026
  • Industry

India produced 34.71 million vehicles and exported over 6.7 million in 2025-26, yet by the Annual Survey of Industries 2023-24 just three states, Maharashtra (24.44 per cent), Tamil Nadu (23.61) and Haryana (19.66), hold 67.71 per cent of auto-component value added.

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  • The Spatial Pattern: Three Anchors and a Thin Periphery
  • How the Hubs Emerged: The Agglomeration Mechanism
  • The Electric Transition Redraws the Map
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