Ankleshwar

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{{Short description|Town in Gujarat, India}}
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'''Ankleshwar''' (sometimes written '''Ankaleshwar'''; [[ISO 15919|ISO]]: ''Aṁkalēśvara'') is a city in [[Bharuch district|the Bharuch district]] in the state of [[Gujarat]], India. The city is located 14 kilometres from [[Bharuch]]. The village of [[Adadara]] is in Ankleshwar division.

==Industry==
Ankleshwar Industrial Association (AIA) is the largest organisation of the [[Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation]], where over 2000 industries are registered.{{Cn|date=April 2022}}

Ankleshwar is a hub of the chemical industry in India. One aggregation of plants, the Ankleshwar Industrial Estate, produces more than 5 percent of India's output of chemical products, including pharmaceuticals and dyes. [[Pollution]] is regulated by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, which charges the AIA with self-enforcement of its constituent organisations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Runa |title=Business, institutions, environment |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-0-19-807544-8 |pages=85–86 |url=https://archive.org/details/businessinstitut0000sark |access-date=5 February 2024}}</ref>

== Transport ==
Ankleshwar is connected by [[Indian National Highway 8]] ([[Mumbai]] to [[New Delhi]]) and by the Western Railway Division of [[Indian Railways]]. The railway division runs the [[broad gauge]] train services to [[Rajpipla]]. The 140-year-old (2021) [[Golden Bridge]] built in (1881) connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch across the [[Narmada River|Narmada]] on the station front while a new bridge connects the highway, the other bridge made by L&T on the highway is now ready to use.

[[Ankleshwar railway station]] is centrally located at the intersection of NH8 & Station Road.

[[Ankleshwar City Bus stand]] is located on Station Road (i.e. located in the City, the western section).

Development project of [[Ankleshwar Airport]] & City Bus are in pipe line in the last stage.

== Notable people ==
Anklesaria, a toponymic surname for Ankleshwar, is found among [[Parsis]] from India:

* [[Saniya Anklesaria]], an Indian actress
* Shahnaz Aiyar (d. 2015), Indian writer, wife of [[Swaminathan Aiyar]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Bharuch district]]

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