Chakan

Chakan is a census town in India, in the Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. While agriculture remains an important factor, the town's industrial development is quickly urbanizing the area.GeographyChakan is about 30km from Pune, on NH 50 between Pune and Nashik cities. It is also on the roads that connect the Pune-Mumbai Highway to the Pune-Nashik Highway, and to the Pune-Ahmednagar-Aurangabad Highway. It is about 150km from Mumbai, 120km from Ahmednagar and 175km from Nashik.EconomyHistorically, Chakan has been a wholesale agricultural produce trading hub. Its agricultural market was a major onion trading center.Chakan is now home to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) promoted by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). It has since evolved into a major automobile hub. It hosts automobile production plants for the Volkswagen Group, Daimler-Benz, Mahindra & Mahindra, Jaguar Land Rover and Bajaj Auto, General Electric. Over 750 large and small industries, including a number of automobile component manufacturers, are based in the area.