Facts about Faridabad

Economy:

Faridabad is a massive economic engine for Haryana. Faridabad and Gurgaon generate over 50% of the income tax to the Haryana government.

Agriculture:

Wheat was grown in Faridabad before but the agriculture has since moved towards the villages of Haryana as the Faridabad saw a boom in the population in the early 90s. Almost all of agricultural land has been taken over by the residential housing. Although the 'Anaaj Mandi' (Grain Market) of heritage value still exists in Old Faridabad.

Central Government Offices:

Faridabad has benefitted from plans of Union Government to decongest delhi by shifting a number of Central Government Offices to Faridabad. Many directorates of different union government ministries are headquartered in Faridabad. Prominent among them are Central Water Organisation, Dte. of Plant Quarntine, Central Insectcide Lab . A number of Union Government Offices for Haryana are based here such as Department of Explosives, Labour etc.

Manufacturing:

Faridabad is the industrial heart of Haryana. It is home to hundreds of large scale companies like Orient fans (C.K.Birla Group), JCB India Limited, Agri Machinery Group (Escorts Limited), Yamaha Motor India Pvt. Ltd., Whirlpool, ABB Ltd., Knorr Bremse India Pvt. ltd., faridabad. There are thousands of medium and small scale units as well.

Financial:

Faridabad contributes 51 percent of the income of Haryana alone. This engineering cluster city is now to get the software park which is known as Haryana Technology Park.

Military:

The Indian Air Force has a logistics base in Faridabad. The resident unit is No. 56 Air Storage Park as well as the Air Force Guard Dog Training Unit. The IAF Base is commanded by a Group Captain of the Logistics Branch. Formerly, a SA-2 SAM Squadron was also based in Faridabad.Although there is no army organisation in faridabad there are many retired army officers settled in sectors.

R&D Facility:

Faridabad has one of finest R&D facilities in Asia. R&D division of India's Biggest Corporate is located in Faridabad. The division is critical contributor in fulfilling India's Defence Requirements.[Indian Oil Corporation Limited] has its R&D centre at sector 13 Faridabad and leads in petroleum Research.

Communications:

Faridabad is well connected to the world by the latest means of communications that includes GSM, WLL, Dialup internet connection, DSL internet connection, Leased line internet connection. Govt operated fixed line/land line telephone connections privately operated, world class network of fixed line phones.

Apart from the electronic media coverage you can also communicate with Faridabad via the government operated postal department World class courier services like DHL, Fedex. Also the city is linked by the small time couriers which are much inexpensive compared to the bigger ones.

Transportation:

It includes everything starting from an auto-rickshaw to the rich cars like Maybach. Auto-rickshaws run mainly on national highway connecting Delhi border and Ballabgarh. Likewise other means of transport are taxis, buses etc. Personal cars and two-wheelers have gradually been increasing since recent years making the city cause of jams and traffic blocks. Trains stop at three railway stations in Faridabad connecting Ballabgarh to New Delhi. Metro rail services are likely to reach the city by 2010 as proposed by Delhi government.