Haldia Industrial Belt or Haldia Industrial Zone is an industrial area established in Eastern Midnapore district ,

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

, India. This industrial area is housed in the center of

Haldia port Haldia port or Haldia Dock Complex has been built at the meeting place of the Haldi River and Hooghly river. Kolkata Port Trust has been created in this port as the port's partner. So it is not a port. It is an official dock complex. It has ...

. The main industrial center of this industrial city is Petrochemicals. Industrial area is developed with more than 350 sq km area of Haldia sub-division.

Location

Haldia Industrial Zone is formed by river on three sides. The

Rupnarayan river The Rupnarayan River is a river in India. It begins as the Dhaleswari (Dhalkisor) in the Chhota Nagpur plateau foothills northeast of the town of Purulia. It then follows a tortuous southeasterly course past the town of Bankura, where it is ...

and

Hooghly river The Bhagirathi Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelled ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli'') or the 'Bhāgirathi-Hooghly', called the Ganga or the Kati-Ganga in mythological texts, is the eastern distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, Indi ...

in the north, the Hooghly river on the east and the Haldi river on the south. The industrial area is 40 km away from the

Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...

. The industrial area is 10 meters high from the sea level.

References

Haldia Economy of West Bengal {{PurbaMedinipur-geo-stub

Location

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