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Anklesvar
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Anklesvar 

a city and petroleum-producing center in India in the state of Gujarat near the Narbada River. Population, approximately 20,000. The city developed along with the exploitation of oil deposits, begun in 1960 with the help of the USSR. Anklesvar is also the site of cotton-ginning and knitwear and soap-making enterprises.



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In many parts of the country, such as in Vapi and Ankleshwar in Gujarat, Patancheru and Bolaram in Andhra Pradesh and Pali and Balotra in Rajasthan, land has been rendered useless due to disposal of toxic industrial wastes.
Two years after, the state-run company had found gas in the region and later oil in the Ankleshwar field.
Recently, during a visit to Bapi and Ankleshwar, the centre of the chemical industry in Gujarat, I found the situation quite horrendous.
 
 
 
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