Southern Rajasthan covers districts of Udaipur, Rajsamand, Chittorgarh, Banswara, Dungarpur and Sirohi. This region is famous for natural beauty, natural resources potential and a wealth of history.

Here are some highlights :

• The region is blessed with picturesque Aravali hills and lakes.

• Land of princes and heroic warriors who lived passionately and preferred to die for honour. Wooded hills give way to serene valleys, majestic rivers, blue water lakes. Wildlife and birdlife abound under blue skies and a friendly cheerful people make this land of Mewar all the more enchanting. The Rajputs were prolific builders who left behind a legacy of some of the most imposing and magnificient forts and palaces in Udaipur and Chittaurgarh.

• Maize, wheat, sugarcane,barley, pulses, groundnut, jowar and rice are the major crops.

• The region is rich in variety of metallic minerals such as copper, lead, silver, zinc, cadmium, palladium, iron ores and non metallic minerals like rock phosphate, limestone, barite, marble, granite, soapstone, talc, calcite, pyrophyllite, graphite, garnet, magnetite, & gypsum ,

• Forest resources include timber, gum, bamboo, tendu, katha & honey. A variety of flora & fauna decorates the forests

• Apart from the large number of small scale units there are many medium and large scale industries in Southern Rajasthan. They are mainly in the spheres of synthetic yarn, cement, tyre-tube, marble & granite slabs and tiles, industrial gases, cotton and synthetic threads, computer peripherals & printers, pesticides and insecticides, chemicals, fertilisers, breviaries, irrigation pipes, engineering, electronic and magnetic instruments, platinum contacts, quartz watches & alarm clock, cut & polished diamonds & diamond tools.

• In addition of above cottage and village industries mainly of handloom, recycled paper, edible oil, cosmetics, ayurvedic medicine, stationary, leather tanning, carpentry, blacksmithy, fabricating industries are operating in this region.

Exports
Marble, granite slabs and tiles, chemicals, plastic moulded articles, cut & polished diamonds & diamond tools, terminal blocks, software, PP & HDPE woven socks, electronic instruments, wooden and metallic decorative articles, cement, rockphosphate, zinc ingots, palladium, wollestomite, tyre and tubes, man made yarn, stationary, handicrafts are the major areas of exports.