Panchla Zari & Embroidery and Domjur Gems & Jewellery Industry in West Bengal: Inferences from Marshall and Krugman

The present study attempts to focus on concentration of specific geographical clustersin two specific sites in West Bengal: namely Domjur Gems and Jewellery industry and Panchla Zari and Embroidery industry which are considered to be the sole “growth poles” in West Bengal as per Arjun Sengupta Report. The two sites of the study have been selected on the basis of their importance to the map of Bengal informal industries and migration destinations. The study objects to detect the factors that determine the difference in the formation of location of these two informal industries in their specific sites in Domjur and Panchla. To reveal these, the study is confined to identify the specificity of the two spaces that contributes to their cross-sectional growth. The study confines that the formation of informal localization is influenced by almost the same set of economic factors as derived from the classical and new economic geography school, however, the difference lies in hierarchical labour migration that is influencing cross-sectional industrial growth and the pattern of linkages of the two destinations- the inference of the factor is not referred in the previous studies. The logical argumentation of the study is based on literature support specifically of the classical and new economic geography school, case studies conducted, and the primary survey results. The micro-level field surveys, sampling design and data analysis of the study conducted is based on the standard model approach in order to allow spatial heterogeneity.