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Abstract

Industrialization is a procedure which contributes to the economy of a country and plays a pivotal role in the expansion of wealth and economic growth of a community. Textile industry has acted as the backbone of the industrial sector of Pakistan and has contributed a lot in the regional growth especially in Punjab. The present study is aimed to assess the role of locational factors that have proven favorable in the growth and successful development of textile industry in Jaranwala tehsil, Faisalabad district. An empirical research design was selected and Jaranwala tehsil was chosen as the study area. Both primary and secondary data sources were used, and primary data were collected through a fully-structured questionnaire. Five sample sites were selected, and 75 textile industries were visited, and data were obtained by interviewing the administrative staff of the respective textile units. The collected data were further arranged and tabulated by using Microsoft Excel 2010, SPSS 20; Paired sample T test was performed to check the significance between types of industries and factors affecting the location of surveyed textile industries.  Distributional and thematic maps were prepared with the help of Arc GIS 10.1. The result of the study showed that availability of raw material, cheap labor and better climatic conditions were the most favorable factors for the location of industries in the study area. The study recommends the further work on other types of industries following same pattern in order to understand their economic progress in regional growth and development of the study area.