8. Manufacturing Industries.

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.

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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 (2^ndFive year plan).
2. Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) - Russia help (2^nd Five year plan).
3. Rourkela (Orissa) - Germany help (2^nd Five year plan).
4. Bokaro (Jharkhand) - Russia help (3^rd 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.

BOOK-01: Fundamentals of Human Geography

Chapter 1. Human Geography Nature and Scope.

Chapter 2. The World Population (Distribution, Density and Growth).

Chapter 3. Population Composition.

Chapter 4. Human Development.

Chapter 5. Primary Activities.

Chapter 6. Secondary Activities.

Chapter 7. Tertiary and Quaternary Activities.

Chapter 8. Transport and Communication.

Chapter 9. International Trade.