While the overwhelming majority of the people are concerned with the land and its production and find a social ethos in its 43722 villages, (2001 Census), it is the modern industry that is increasingly contributing to state’s economic development and significantly influencing its social strata and outlook. Maharashtra is a leading industrial state in India and has been identified as the country's industrial powerhouse. This paper explains the indusial development imbalances among the districts of Maharashtra. The results in this study clearly show that Maharashtra is an industrially one of the most well developed state, but all its districts are not at the same level of development. Maharashtra as mentioned earlier occupies a prominent place on the industrial map of India, which gives the impression that it is a highly industrialized and developed state. But baring a few pockets of development like the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt, which is highly industrialized, and Nagpur the rest of the state is as backward or under-developed as any other region in the country.