Manufacturing Industries in India PDF

plants are located near oil refineries or Automobile Industry petrochemical plants. Automobiles provide vehicle for quick The chemical industry is its own largest transport of good services and passengers. consumer. Basic chemicals...

plants are located near oil refineries or Automobile Industry petrochemical plants. Automobiles provide vehicle for quick The chemical industry is its own largest transport of good services and passengers. consumer. Basic chemicals undergo processing Trucks, buses, cars, motor cycles, scooters, to further produce other chemicals that are three-wheelers and multi-utility vehicles are used for industrial application, agriculture or manufactured in India at various centres. After directly for consumer markets. Make a list of the liberalisation, the coming in of new and the products you are aware of. contemporary models stimulated the demand Fertilizer Industry for vehicles in the market, which led to the healthy growth of the industry including The fertilizer industry is centred around the passenger cars, two and three-wheelers. The production of nitrogenous fertilizers (mainly industry is located around Delhi, Gurugram, urea), phosphatic fertilizers and ammonium Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, phosphate (DAP) and complex fertilizers which Indore, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur and have a combination of nitrogen (N), phosphate Bengaluru. (P), and potash (K). The third, i.e. potash is entirely imported as the country does not have Information Technology and any reserves of commercially usable potash or Electronics Industry potassium compounds in any form. The electronics industry covers a wide range After the Green Revolution the industry of products from transistor sets to television, expanded to several other parts of the country. telephones, cellular telecom, telephone Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and exchange, radars, computers and many Kerala contribute towards half of the fertilizer other equipments required by the production. Other significant producers are telecommunication industry. Bengaluru has Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, emerged as the electronic capital of India. Other Maharashtra, Assam, West Bengal, Goa, Delhi, important centres for electronic goods are Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Cement Industry Kolkata, Lucknow and Coimbatore. The major industry concentration is at Bengaluru, Noida, Cement is essential for construction activity Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune. A such as building houses, factories, bridges, major impact of this industry has been on roads, airports, dams and for other commercial employment generation. The continuing establishments. This industry requires bulky growth in the hardware and software is the key and heavy raw materials like limestone, silica to the success of IT industry in India. and gypsum. Coal and electric power are needed apart from rail transportation. Where would it be economically viable to set up the cement manufacturing units? The industry has strategically located plants in Gujarat that have suitable access to the market in the Gulf countries. Find out where the plants are located in other States of India. Find their names. The first cement plant was set-up in Fig. 6.6: Cable manufacturing facilities at HCL, Chennai in 1904. After Independence the Rupnarainpur (West Bengal) industry expanded. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 65 Reprint 2024-25