Economy Profile:

     Ankleshwar is known for its industrial township called GIDC (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation), which is one of the biggest in Asia. Ankleshwar also has an office of the ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited). Today, Ankleshwar has over 5000 big and small chemical plants. These chemical plants produce products such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and paints.
     The pharmaceutical companies Cadila Healthcare and Mahrshee Laboratories have a plant to make active pharmaceutical ingredients in Ankleshwar. Not only Cadila but other leading pharmaceuticals of India had started their pharmaceutical producing plants over here. The resin industry like Resins & Plastics Limited and Pragati Chemicals Limited also have manufacturing facility at Ankleshwar which are catering for auto coating as well as general industrial coating resins.
      The multi-national firm Hoechst India Limited, which became Aventis has now changed to Sanofi Aventis after the merger with Sanofi, has a plant to make the Rabies vaccine - Rabipur, pharmaceuticals and agro chemicals. Thus Hoechst sold its Rabies vaccine division to Chiron Behring Vaccine India which has now been taken over by Novartis. The Pharmaceutical plant is now run by Sanofi Aventis and the Agro Chemical plant is now run by Bayer. Also famous Lalbhai Group company named ATUL Ltd has one of its Aromatic Division plant at Ankleshwar manufacturing Aromatic Chemicals.
     All these above mentioned industries as well as domestic consumers are supplied eco-friendly piped natural gas by the Gujarat Gas Company Limited, a subsidiary of BG Group plc. Rather than this, Lupin Ltd has one manufacturing plant at Ankleshwar.It Supplies the Ethambutol HCL in largest quantity in world. India's no.-1 paint manufacturer Asian Paints has one of its paint manufacturing facility here with a production capacity of 100000KL of paints per year. Because of the high presence of Industries, the city is adjudged as most polluted city of India.

Shopping And Recreation:

     There are many parks (such as The Millennium Park and old parks in Ankleshwar city), the GIDC Water Reservoir, Sports center (Ankleshwar Gymkhana, One of the best Club in Ankleshwar having all facilities like, Badminton, Table Tennis, Tennis, Swimming Pool, Garden, Gymnasium, Steam Saunna, Canteen,etc.) Swimming pools, Joggers Park, Children Park, Rotary library and other recreation centers in the GIDC area.
     Small and big shops near the Chauta Bazar and Sardar Park area (in GIDC) are the central shopping zones. however recently brands of costume jewellery like "Sia" and fashion shops like Aura have opened in Rustom Plaza, Station road which is certainly a first for Ankleshwar.

Health Provisions

     The health provisions in the city are also noteworthy. Many clinics and hospitals are owned and operated by medical professionals and individual doctors. The private hospitals are generally in good conditions and include all type of modern arrangements and up-to-date technology. The Sanjivanii Hospital is also a large and popular one and is served by physicians and pediatricians. Other facilities in these hospitals include sonography, x-rays and other similar type of necessities.

Education Provisions

     The educational provisions in the city of Ankleshwar are also remarkable and many schools and colleges are established here. There are very famous schools in this city, which offers education from kindergarten to higher secondary. The medium of instruction is English and Gujarati. There are also very important Darul-Ulooms in the surrounding villages of Ankleshwar, which are regarded, significant in the sense that they offer education to the Muslim community relating to tenets of Islam and Muslim Canonic Law or the Sharia Law.

Religious Significance

     The city of Ankleshwar also has extreme religious significance as the far famed Shri Ankleshwar Tirth is in the vicinity. It is a very famous pilgrimage site in Gujarat. There are also four Digambar Jain Temple and Chintamani Parsyanath Temple, which have a 150 meters huge brown color idol of Bhagwan Chintamani Parsvanath. Then there is also the Neminath Mandir, Adinath Mandir and Mahavir Swami Mandir.

How to reach Ankleshwar

Air :- Nearest working airport is vadodra which is 80 km. away from ANKLESHWAR
Road:- Bharuch and Ankleshwar are well connected with Mumbai, Delhi and South India by rail.
Train:- Ankleshwar is now linked by frequent trains to and from the major metros as well as the other destinations of India. The Indian National Highway 8 links this town to many important cities in India.