1. The availability of coal, minerals, agricultural raw materials, cheap and abundant labour, water transport and a huge market have helped the development of industries in the Lower Ganga Plain.
2. Main agro-based industries like jute and cotton textiles, mineral-based industries like iron and steel, locomotives, automobiles, chemicals, paper, petrochemicals, oil refining, fertilizers, etc. are established here.
3. Thus, industrial development has taken place in the Lower Ganga Plain.
