About Morbi
Morbi or Morvi (Gujarati: મોરબી) is a city and a municipality in Morbi district in the Indian6state of Gujarat. It was a Princely State ruled by Jadeja clan of Rajputs until Indian independence in 1947. It is situated on the Kathiawar peninsula. In 1981, the city’s population was determined to be 73,327. Its chief products are cotton and grain. The town is a railroad junction. The town of Morbi is situated on the river Machhu, 22 miles (35 kilometres) from the sea and 60 kilometres from Rajkot. 36 The city-state of Morbi and much of the building heritage and town planning is attributed to the administration of Sir Lakhdhiraji Waghji,[1] who ruled from 1922 until 1948. Sir Waghji acted as a ruler, manager, patron and policeman of the state with great authority. Sir Waghji, like other contemporary rulers of Saurashtra, built roads and a railway network (of seventy miles), connecting Wadhwan and Morbi and the two small ports of Navlakhi and Vavania, for exporting the state’s production of salt and cloth. The Morbi railway station combines Indian and European architectural elements.
Industries and business
Morbi produces 80% of the country’s gross ceramic production ,around 80% of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) production and is the largest producer of wall clocks in India.
There are around 600 ceramic manufacturing units with production worth 40,000 million rupees (4,000 crore) annually.The main products are ceramic tile, vitrified tiles, floor tiles, glazed wall tiles, luster wall tiles, sanitary wares, porcelain tiles, spartek tiles, glaze tile, roofing tiles and mosaic tiles. Morbi’s ceramic factories belong to small and medium scale units which together comprise the largest ceramic production in India..
A major industry of Morbi is clock manufacturing. Ajanta Clocks ,Samay Clocks ,Sonera Industries and Sonam Quartz are the world’s largest clock manufacturers and lead the clock manufacturing industry. The majority of these companies’ workforce are females from neighbouring villages. Clocks are manufactured and exported nationally and internationally, with major international shipments to Middle-East, and East Asia.
A paper mill produces a wide range of paper product and some paper crafts are operating in the city.
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