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The '''Thane – Belapur region''' is one of the largest industrial regions in [[India]],<ref name="Edulbehram1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/pubs/bpj/pdf/bidl1211.pdf|title= Polluting Prosperity: Regional Development and Environmental Degradation in the Thane-Belapur Region (Western India|last= Edulbehram|first=Jumbi|year=1997|work=Ph.D. Dissertations|publisher=Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California|accessdate=24 February 2012|location=Berkeley}}</ref> and for a time in all of Asia. In 2006 it had 1136 industries generating industrial effluent.<ref name="Sahay2006">{{cite book|author=B. S. Sahay|title=Green Business|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4j3LHDOT_t4C&pg=PA639|accessdate=23 May 2012|year=2006|publisher=Allied Pub.|isbn=978-81-8424-122-8}}</ref>{{rp|639}} In 1994 it produced 100 tons of solid waste, 80 percent of it being either acidic or alkaline, with five tons of waste containing halogens making it difficult to treat. The bulk of this waste, along with [[municipal solid waste]], polluted water bodies in the vicinity.<ref name="Hosetti2006">{{cite book|author=B. B. Hosetti|title=Prospects and Perspective of Solid Waste Management|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dq_sJat76-8C&pg=PA190|accessdate=23 May 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=New Age International|isbn=978-81-224-1777-7|page=190}}</ref> The industrial turnover for the year 2002-03 was Rs. 10000 crores, fifteen percent of this being exported.<ref name="TOI-20030417">{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-04-17/mumbai/27266369_1_thane-belapur-industrial-belt-thane-belapur-area-sez-policy|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103111335/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-04-17/mumbai/27266369_1_thane-belapur-industrial-belt-thane-belapur-area-sez-policy|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-03|title=Thane-Belapur belt can be made into SEZ: Report|last=Kamdar|first=Seema|date=2003-04-17|accessdate=20 May 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|location=Mumbai}}</ref> Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation established and industrial estate, to the north of Thane - Belapur Road in 1963. It has an area of 27 km<sup>2</sup> and comprises about 2200 units.<ref name="MPCB-201010">{{cite web|url=http://mpcb.gov.in/CEPI/pdf/Action%20Plan%20CEPI-Navimumbai.pdf|title=Environmental status and action plan for prevention and control of pollution - ACTION PLAN FOR INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER : NAVI MUMBAI |date=October 2010|publisher=Maharashtra Pollution Control Board |accessdate=20 May 2012|location=Mumbai}}</ref>{{rp|4}} The region has chemical, textile, bulk-drug manufacturing plants and IT parks,<ref name="MPCB-201010" />{{rp|9}} James Heitzman considers it to be India's main petrochemical belt. In 1971 there were 44 industries were located in it employing 16000 personnel, who all commuted to work from outside the region.<ref name="Heitzman2008">{{cite book|author=James Heitzman|title=The City in South Asia|url=https://archive.org/details/cityinsouthasia0000heit|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/cityinsouthasia0000heit/page/205 205]|accessdate=23 May 2012|date=6 May 2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-34355-8}}</ref>{{rp|203}} By the end of the last millennium, stagnation had set in these industries, following a trend that saw a shift from secondary to tertiary employment.<ref name="Heitzman2008"/>{{rp|205}}

==Guides==
[[Freelance]] guides are a feature of this area. They are former industrial workers who have been laid redundant. Traffic rules in the area allow heavy transport vehicles entry only during night time. These vehicles come from all over India. The drivers of these vehicles can only speak their mother-tongues most of the times, which may be different from the languages spoken in the area. Additionally they find it difficult to navigate to their destination during the night considering that at night there are fewer road users to guide them. These drivers carry addresses written either in [[Devnagari]] or in English. Freelance guides being former workers know the area well, on redundancy in their earlier employment, they; using their knowledge of the area, offered themselves as guides.<ref name="Sakal-20121209">{{cite news|title=मार्गदर्शनाचा मेहताना|last=Humpras|first=Shekhar|date=2012-12-09|work=सकाळ संडे Today|publisher=Sakal|pages=2|language=Marathi|location=Pune}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Economy of India]]
*[[Environmental issues in India]]

==References==
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