TREASURE BAZAAR >> AMRAVATI >> CITY OVERVIEW
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Amravati - rapidly growing city in terms of living quality
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New flyovers and roads are being built, and massive infrastructural upgradation underway,
under the Integrated Road Development Programme, by government of Maharashtra
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Growing industrial area with Cotton mills, Oil mills, Pulse mills, Iron industries, Marble and Soap industries.
Being the cotton belt, cotton industries are a mainstay for the city economy. Amravati is also known for its oranges
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Town expanding towards Badnera, 10 km to south, which also serves as a railway junction
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Industrial clusters near Amravati is MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) found along old
bypass road between Badnera-Amravati
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NSSO 61st Round (2004-05) suggests wages and salary earners constitute about 48% of the working population
of the city, self-employed about 32% and 12% daily and casual labour
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Population characterized by two distinct classes
HIG : self-employed, salaried, businessman, industrialists
MIG : service class, self employed traders, agriculturists
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