Manufacturing Industries
CHAPTER NO. 08
India People and Economy.
Class 12 Geography
Very Short Answer type questions. (important Questions)
Q1. What is the old name of Visvesvaraiya iron and steel works limited?
Ans. Mysore Iron
& Steel Works (Tamil Nadu).
Q2. Which state of India has largest number of cotton textile mills?
Ans. Tamil Nadu.
Q3. What are petrochemicals?
Ans. Many things
which are derived from crude petroleum & from the raw material so several
new industries are collectively called petrochemical.
Q4. Which is the oldest iron and steel plant of India?
Ans. TISCO.
Q5. Name the nucleus of Hugli industrial
region?
Ans. Kolkata-Howrah.
Q6. Name the southernmost Industrial region of India?
Ans. Kollam, Trivantapuram,
Vishakhapatnam, Guntur.
Q7. What are the factors in the development of Mumbai - Pune industry?
Ans.
1.
Opening of Suez Canal in 1869.
2. Cotton is available in the Hinterland
area.
Q8. Which is the largest centre of cotton textile industry in Gujarat?
Ans. Ahmadabad.
Q10. Name the region which is known as “Ruhr of India”.
Ans. Jamshedpur .
Q11. When was TISCO at Jamshedpur established?
Ans.
1907.
Q12. Name the largest centre of electronic industry in
India?
Ans. Bengaluru.
Q13. Name any two industrial centre of Chota Nagpur region?
Ans. Ranchi & Bakaro.
Q14. Jute mills are mostly located in which state of India?
Ans. West Bengal.
Q15. Which
city is known as the capital of textiles?
Ans. Mumbai.
Q16. Manufacturing is an activity considered under which type of economic
activity?
Ans. Secondary
Activity.
Q17. What are the types of industries in India on the basis of their
ownership?
Ans. 1. Public
sector industries.
2.
Private sector industries.
3.
Cooperative sector industries.
Q18. When was the first jute mill established?
Ans. 1855. Rishra in
W.B
Q19. How many major industrial regions does India have?
Ans. 08.
Q20. Where is Hindustan Motor Limited located?
Ans. Konnagar (W.B)
Q21. When was ship building industry started & where was?
Ans. 1941 at
Vishakhapatnam.
Q22. Full form of TISCO.
Ans. Tata Iron and
Steel Co-operation.
Q23. Full form of IISCO &
where was it started?
Ans. Indian Iron
and Steel Company started in Hirapur.
Q24. Full form of
VISL.
Ans.
Visvesvaraiya
Iron and Steel Works.
Q25. Full form of NOCIL &
when was it established?
Ans. National
organic chemicals industries limited & establishes in 1961.
Q26. Full form of LPG & when was it
announced?
Ans.
Liberalization, Privatization & Globalization announced
in 1991.
Q27. Classifying industries on the basis of raw materials?
Ans. Four
industries are-
1.
Agriculture based industries.
2.
Forest based industries.
3.
Minerals based industries.
4.
Industrially processed raw material based industries.
Q28. Which factors influence the location of industries?
Ans.1. Raw material.
2.
Power,
3. Market,
4.Transport,
5. Labour,
6.
Historical factors,
7. Industrial
policy.
Q29. Where the iron and steel industries are situated in India?
Ans.1.
Bhilai -
Chattisgarh,
2. Durgapur - West
Bengal,
3. Rourkela -
Orissa,
4. Bhadravati -
Karnataka.
Q30. Full form of
DVC.
Ans. Damodar valley corporation.
Q31. When and where was first cotton textile industry established?
Ans. In 1854 in
Mumbai.
Q32. Name any four Cotton textile industries?
Ans. 1.Delhi,
2.
Lucknow,
3.Varanasi,
4.
Mumbai.
Q33. How many types of cotton textile industry in India name them?
Ans. Divided into two
sectors: -
A. Handlooms
B. Powerlooms.
Q34. In which places the highest Sugar industry was found?
Ans. Highest -Uttar
Pradesh,
Q35. What is the full form of FDI?
Ans. Foreign Direct
Investment.
Q36. How many major industrial regions? (Name any four)
Ans. Regions- 08,
1.
Mumbai – Pune Region
2.
Hugli Region
3.
Gujarat
4.
Chotanagpur Region.
Q37. How many minor industrial Regions? (Name any four)
Ans. Regions -13,
1.
Ambala - Amritsar.
2.
Jaipur – Ajmer.
3.
Durg – Raipur.
4.Bilaspur
– Korba.
Q38. How many industrial districts? (Name any four)
Ans. Districts-15,
1.
Kanpur.
2.
Hyderabad.
3.
Bhopal.
4. Lucknow.
Q39. What are the measure initiated of LPG?
Ans.
Abolition
of industrial licensing.
1.
Free entry to foreign technology.
2.
Foreign investment policy.
3.
Access to capital market.
Q40. In which state Vijaynagar steel plant situated?
Ans. Hosapete in Karnataka.
Q41. Where is Diesel Engine factory located?
Ans.
Chittranjan
(W.B).
Q42. Which project in India is popular as the
name of Tennis project?
Ans.
Damodar
Valley Project.
Q43. How many types of Petrochemical
industries?
Ans. Four types:-
1.
Polymer.
2.
Synthetic.
3.
Surfactant.
4.
Elastomers.
Q44. For which industry movement Swadeshi was played a great role in
it?
Ans. Textile industry.
Q45. Which industry is affected by the partition of India?
Ans.
Jute
industry, Flour Mill industry.
Q46. Which countries help in the collaboration of the steel plant?
Ans. 1.Durgapur
(W.B) - Britain help (2ndFive
year plan).
2.
Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) - Russia help (2nd
Five year plan).
3.
Rourkela (Orissa) - Germany help (2nd
Five year plan).
4.
Bokaro (Jharkhand) - Russia help (3rd
Five year plan).
Q47. Who is known as the Manchester of India and Manchester
of north India?
Ans.1.Ahmadabad.
2.Kanpur.
Q48. What is the full form of FDI and
what are the benefits of FDI?
Ans. Foreign
District Investment.
FDI benefits the domestic industry as well as the consumer
providing technology up gradation, access to global managerial skill and
practises, optimum use of natural and human resources.
Q 49. Which country is largest producer of sugarcane in the world?
Ans. India.
Q 50. What can be prepared by with the help of sugarcane?
Ans. Khandasari, jiggery or gur.
Q51. In India iron ore industry have construct near the areas where the coal
and iron are found what is the reason?
Ans.
Because
both are weight loosing.
Q52. Why the petroleum refinery construct near the market?
Ans. Because the
transportation of crude petrol is very easy and with the help of them they
distribute in different industry as a raw material.
Q53. What are the landmarks of Bangalore
- Chennai industrial region?
Ans.
Aircraft
[HAL], Machine tools, Telephone [HTL] and Bharat electronics.
Q54. Why the Chota-nagpur Region owns its development?
Ans.
Because
the discovery of coal in the Damodar valley and metallic and non- metallic
minerals.
Q 55. NHAI
was operationalized in?
Ans.1995.
Q56. “Brought
people of diverse cultures together to contribute to India’s freedom struggle”
this quotation is given by which person?
Ans. Mahatma
Gandhi.
Q57. The
Inland waterways authority was set up in which year?
Ans. In 1986.
Q58. In
which place The National Remote Sensing Agency were found?
Ans. Hyderabad.
Q59. The
Raurkela Steel Plant set up with the help of which foreign
collaboration?
Ans. It was set up in 1959 with
the help of collaboration with Germany.
Q60. The Bhillai
steel plant and Bokaro Steel Plant was set up with the help of which
foreign collaboration?
Ans. It was set up
in 1959 with the help of Russian collaboration.
Q61.
Durgapur Steel Plant was set up by which foreign collaboration?
Ans.It was set up
in 1962 with the help of U.K collaboration.
Q62. What are the problems of cotton textile industries in India?
Ans.1. Old
technology,
2. Irregular energy supply,
3. Unskilledlabour.
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