SURAT TEXTILE

Textiles Industries:

Since it is known for producing textiles, including silk, Surat is known as the textile hub of the nation or the Silk City of India. It is very famous for its cotton mills too. Surat is the biggest centre of MMF (man-made fibre) in India. It has a total of 381 dyeing and printing mills and 41,100 powerloom units. There are over a hundred thousand units and mills in total. The overall annual turnover is around 5 billion rupees. There are over 800 cloth wholesalers in Surat.[20] It is the largest manufacturer of clothes in India, and Surti dress material can be found in any state of India. Surat produces 9 million metres of fabric annually, which accounts for 60% of the total polyester cloth production in India. Now the city is focusing on increasing the exports of its textile.

manufacturing product:

Fancy sharees, Curtains, Suitings and Shirtings‎,Ladies suite Dupattas e.t.c.

Other Industries:

Diamond polishing

Surat is a major hub of diamond cutting and polishing. Gujarati diamond cutters, emigrating from East Africa, established the industry in 1901 and, by the 1970s, Surat-based diamond cutters began exporting stones to the US for the first time.Surat is known as diamond heart of world.

Corporate Industries

Along with Textile and Diamond, there are other sectors in city like Petroleum, Oil & Gas, Shipping, Cement, Metallurgy, Paper,Chemical, Fertilizer etc. Hazira INA, Magadalla, Ichchhapore, Olpad near Surat city are having giant industries like ONGC, GAIL, ABG Shipyard, Narmada Cement,Ambuja Cement,Ultratech Cement,NTPC-KGPP Power Plant,ESSAR group of Industries(Steel/Power/Chemical/Oil/Shipping), L&T,Reliance PVC, Reliance Petroleum, Kribhco-Fertilizer mammoth, Cairn India Limited-Oil Drilling and Exploration Giant, GSPC,Gujarat Gas, Shell, LNG, Niko Gas, Rama Paper Mill etc. are some of them.

CITY:

previously known as Suryapur, is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative capital of the Surat district. The city is located 284 kilometres (176 mi) south of the state capital, Gandhinagar, on the south of Tapti River (Tapi), the center being around 22 km (14 mi) from the river's mouth.

MAP

Airport

Railway station

Swaminarayan temple

Sardar patel museum

Iscon tample

nanavarachha

Mall

Science centre

Transportation:

Air

Surat Airport has direct air connectivity withDelhi and Mumbai. Airlines companies such as Air India operate daily 2 flights per day from Surat to Delhi and one flight from Surat to Mumbai .[31][32] Ventura air operates daily flight from Surat to Bhavnagar,Rajkot and Bhuj.

A SpiceJet Boeing 737-900ER taking off from Surat Airport

Rail

Surat railway station

Surat railway station is under the administrative control of the Mumbai Division, Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways. The erection of Surat Railway Station began in 1860.

Water

Surat has a port near Magdalla with good facilities for industrial purposes.