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West Bengal has a long tradition of successful small-scale and informally organized enterprises. The closure of many public-sector units and consequent fall in organized sector employment necessitates the emergence of informal sector as the potential of employment generating sector in West Bengal. This book studies garment making and small engineering goods manufacturing informal industries of West Bengal. There is a big market potential of these industries. Moreover they are providing employment to a large number of people living within the geographical boundary of the clusters in which they are situated. The Liberalisation Policy of 1990 necessitated the industries to garner competitive strength in order to sustain them and to provide employment in a sustainable way. Drawing important lessons from decentralized production in West Bengal, this book will be essential for scholars in the field of decentralized production, policy makers as well students of Economics.