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Why does the pharmaceutical industry concentrate largely in the western region of the country?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Industry

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Pune tract yields close to 60 per cent of India's drug and pharmaceutical output, with Surat, Vadodara, Bharuch and Pimpri as secondary production centres.

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