Vadodara- The Pride of Gujarat
Economy: Major industries include petrochemicals, engineering, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, IT and foreign exchange. Out of the 4 major PSUs of Gujarat, 3 are in Vadodara, GSFC, Gujarat Refinery and ONGC. Has the highest share of well-established large scale industries in Gujarat, some of the popular names are as follows- TBEA ABB, Collabera, IOC, TBEA (Chinese), SunPharma, Alembic Pharmacy (oldest pharma firm), Sarabai Chemicals, Jyoti Laboratories, GM manufacturing plant(US), Reliance Industries, Apollo, Schneider (French), Siemens (German), Alstom (French), Bombardier (Canadian), L&T, GIPCL, Mahindra etc. Due to the good presence of these major firms who hire on national basis, a large number of well-educated crowd have settled in Vadodara from outside Gujarat making it the most cosmopolitan of all the cities in the state. Hence the general public has a more sophisticated taste than other cities. Bank of Baroda is the second l