Economy
Vidarbha's economy is primarily agricultural and also the region is rich in forest and mineral wealth. From a business point of view, Chandrapur, Amravati and Nagpur are important cities of Vidarbha. Nagpur is a central hub for business. Amravati is well known for film distributors and its cloth markets. Chandrapur has a thermal power station which is one of the biggest in India and some other heavy industries such as BILT (Paper Industry) MEL, Steel industries, Cement industries and coal mines.
An International cargo hub, (MIHAN), is being developed at Nagpur. MIHAN will be used for handling heavy cargo coming from South-East Asia and Middle-East Asia. The project will also include a 10,000 crore (US$1.82 billion) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for Information Technology (IT) companies. This will be the biggest development project in India so far.
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