Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 18 Manufacturing Industries

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Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 18 Manufacturing Industries

Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 18 Manufacturing Industries

Types of Industries
There are various ways to classify industries:
On the basis of size capital investment and labour force employed:

  1. Large scale industries
  2. Medium scale industries
  3. mall scale and cottage industries

On the basis of ownership:

  1. Public sector industries
  2. Private sector industries
  3. Joint and cooperative sector

On the basis of use of finished goods:

  1. Basic goods industries
  2. Capital goods industries
  3. Intermediate goods industries
  4. Consumers goods industries

On the basis of raw materials used by them:

  1. Agriculture based industries
  2. Forest based industries
  3. Mineral based industries
  4. Industrially processed raw material based industries

On the basis of nature of the manufactured products:

  1. Metallurgical industries
  2. Mechanical engineering industries
  3. Chemical and allied industries
  4. Textiles industries
  5. Food processing industries
  6. Electricity generation
  7. Electronics
  8. Communication industries

Location of Industries

  • Location of industries is determined by important factors i.e. raw materials, power resources, water, labour, markets and the transport facilities.
  • Raw materials and industries are inter-related to each other. Most of the manufacturing industries are located at a place where cost of production and cost of delivery of finished goods are least.
  • Nature of raw materials and finished goods decide the cost of transportation.

Factors of Industrial Location
The following factors influence the location of industries:

Raw materials

  • Industries using raw materials which are perishable or lose weight in the process of manufacture are usually located near the source of the raw materials.
  • For example, sugar mills, pulp industries, copper smelting, pig iron industries, etc.
  • Iron and steel industries are mostly located near coalfields (e.g. Bokaro, Durgapur ) or near source of iron-ore (Bhadravati, Bhilai, Rourkela) as both iron-ore and coal lose their weight during the process of manufacturing of steel.
    Power
  • Power is must for every industry so supply of power should be ensured before locating any industry. For e.g. aluminum and synthetic nitrogen manufacturing industries.

Market

  • Market is an important factor for market oriented industries as market provide outlets for manufactured products like heavy machines, machine tools, heavy chemicals, to sell finished goods.
  • For example, Petroleum refineries like Koyali, Mathura and Barauni are located near markets so that the products derived from them can be used as raw material in other industries.

Transport

  • It is important for the location of industries to move goods and labour from industrial area to markets and others.
  • For example, around Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, the concentration of industries is maximum.

Labour

  • It is another important factor of the location of industries.
  • Due to our large population, labour is quite mobile and is available in large numbers.

Historical Factors
Colonial influence like competition from the British goods and the British discriminatory policies, are also important reasons for the emergence of some of our industrial nodes (like, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai) and manufacture centres (like Murshidabad, Dhaka, Bhadohi, Surat, Vadodara, Kozhikode,
Coimbatore, Mysore, etc).

Industrial Policy

  1. To bring balanced regional development and to eradicate regional disparities in the economy, are the main objectives of our democratic country.
  2. India attempts to promote backward areas like tribal areas into economic development process by providing lots of incentives. For example, establishment of iron and steel industry in Bhilai and Rourkela were based on decision to develop backward tribal areas of the country.

Major Industries
Some of the major industries of our country are discussed below:

The Iron and Steel Industry
The iron and steel industry provides basic infrastructure to almost all sectors of the Indian industry. The raw materials used in this industry, iron-ore, cooking coal, limestone, dolomite, manganese and fire clay are found in parts of Chhattisgarh, Northern Odisha, Jharkhand and Western West Bengal.
This industry comprises of large integrated steel plants as well as mini steel mills and also includes secondary producers, rolling mills and ancillary industries.
Some integrated steel plants are:

TISCO
The Tata Iron and Steel Plant lies near to Mumbai-Kolkata railway line and about 240 km away from Kolkata which is nearest port for the export of steel. This industry gets its raw materials from different source regions like:

  1. Water supply from Subamarekha and Kharkai rivers.
  2. Iron-ore from Noamundi and Badam Pahar.
  3. Coal from Joda mines in Odisha.
  4. Coking coal from coal fields of Jharia and West Bokaro.

IISCO
The first factory of the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) was set-up at Hirapur and another at Kulti. In 1937, the steel corporation of Bengal was established in association with IISCO by setting up another unit at Bunpur (West Bengal).
IISCO gets its raw materials from different source regions like:

  1. Coal from Damodar valley coal fields (Raniganj, Jharia and Ramgarh).
  2. Iron-ore from Singhbhum in Jharkhand.
  3. Water supply from river Barakar (a tributary of Damodar river).

The Kolkata- Asansol railway line runs along the plants. Later in 1972-73, the government took over the IISCO plant because of the fall of steel production.

Visvesvaraiya Iron and Steel Works Ltd. (VISL)
Initially named Mysore Iron and Steel Works, the VISL is located at the banks of Badravati in Shimoga district of Karnataka. This plant produces specialised steels and alloys.
VISL gets raw materials from:

  1. It gets iron ore from Kemangundi in the Bababudan hills, limestone and manganese from the local area.
  2. water supply from the Bhadravati river.
  3. Due to unavailability of coal in this region, at the beginning charcoal was used as fuel by burning wood till 1951. Later, electric furnaces were installed which use hydroelectricity from the Jog falls hydel power project.

During the second five years plan (1956-61), three new public sector integrated steel plants were set up with foreign collaboration i.e. Rourkela in Odisha, Bhilai in Chhattisgarh and Durgapur in West Bengal.
These were under Hindustan steel Limited (HSL). In 1973, the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) was created to manage these plants.

Rourkela Steel Plant
This plant was established in 1959 in the Sundargarh district of Odisha in collaboration with Germany.
This plant gets its raw materials from different sources region like:

  1. Coal from Jharia.
  2. Iron-ore from Sundargarh and Kendujhar districts.
  3. Hydro-electric power from Hirakud Power Project.
  4. Water from Koel and Sankh rivers.

Bhilai Steel Plant
It was set up with Russian collaboration in Durg district of Chhattisgarh and started production in 1959.
It gets its raw material from different places like:

  1. Coal from Korba and Kargali.
  2. Water from Tanduladam.
  3. Power from Korba thermal power station.

This plant is connected with Kolkata-Mumbai railway line. This plant supplies the bulk of steel to the Hindustan Shipyard at Vishakhapatnam.

Durgapur Steel Plant
It was set up in .collaboration with the Government of United Kingdom in West Bengal and started production in 1962.
It gets its raw material from the following places:

  1. Coal from Jharia and Raniganj.
  2. Iron-ore from Noamundi.
  3. Water and hydel power from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).

It lies on the main Kolkata-Delhi railway route.

Bokaro Steel Plant
Bokaro steel plant was set up in 1964 with Russian collaboration at Bokaro. It aims at transport cost minimisation by creating Bokaro-Roukela combine. The raw materials and their source regions are:

  1. Iron-ore from Rourkela.
  2. Water and Hydel power from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
  3. Other raw materials come from within a radius of about 350 km.

Other Steel Plants
In the Fourth Five Year Plan, three new steel plants were set up away from the main raw materials sources, namely:

  1. The Vizag Steel Plant in Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is the first port based plant which started operating in 1992.
  2. The Vijayanagar Steel Plant at Hospet in Karnataka.
  3. The Salem Steel Plant in Tamil Nadu was commissioned in 1982.

There are also more than 206 units in India which use scrap iron as main raw material and process it in electric furnaces.

The Cotton Textile Industry
This industry is one of the traditional industries of India. The first successful modem cotton textile mill was established in Mumbai in 1854. Beause, it is very close to the cotton producing areas of Gujarat and Maharashtra and being a large town, provide employment opportunities to many people. After the first mill, two more mills, the Shahpur mill and the Calico mill were established in Ahmedabad (Gujarat). But, after partition, India was left with 409 mills out of 423 mills and only 29% of the cotton progrowing area.

The cotton textile industry can be classified as organised and decentralised sectors. The decentralised sector includes cloth produced in handlooms (including khadi) and powerlooms. On the other hand, production of the organised sector has drastically fallen from 81% in the mid twentieth century to only about 6% in 2000. Now powerlooms on the decentralised sector produce more than the handloom sector. As cotton does not lose weight in the manufacturing process, hence the location of cotton textile industry is determined by other factors like power supply, labour, capital or market.

At present, market is the most preferred factor to locate industry as market decides what is the current trend of clothes. After first cotton textile mills were set up in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the cotton textile industry expanded very rapidly. Development of the railway network also contributed to the expansion of mills. In southern India, mills were set up at Coimbatore, Madurai and Bangaluru.

In central India, mills were set up at Nagpur, Indore, Solapur and Vadodra. Mills were also set up at Kanpur and Kolkata. Availability of hydel power favoured the setting up of cotton mills in Tamil Nadu. Availability of cheap labour favoured the setting up of cotton mills at Ujjain, Bharuch, Agra, Hathras, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli.

Distribution of Cotton Textile Industries

  • In present time, important centres of cotton textile industries are Ahmedabad, Bhiwandi, Solapur, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Indore and Ujjain. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are the leading cotton producing states. West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Punjab are the other important cotton textile producers.
  • Tamil Nadu has largest number of mills and most of them produce yam rather than cloth. Coimbatore accounts for 50% of total mills. Other important centres are Chennai, Madura, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Thanjavur, Ramanathapuram and Salem.
  • In Karnataka, Bengaluru, Hubli Devangera, Bellary, Mysore are some important centres.
  • The cotton textile industry has developed in cotton producing Telangana region. The important centres are Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Warangal in Telangana and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.
  • Most of the cotton textile industry has developed in the Western part of Uttar Pradesh. Kanpur is the largest centre and known as Manchester of Uttar Pradesh. Other important centres are Agra, Modinagar, Sahranpur, Lucknow and Hathras.
  • In West Bengal, important centres are Kolkata, Serampur, Howrah and Shyamnagar.
  • Cotton textile industry has been facing tough competition from synthetic cloth.

Sugar Industry

The sugar industry being the second largest agro-based industry in India, is the largest producer of both sugar and sugarcane. It contributes about 8% of the total sugar production in the world.
The first sugar mill was established in 1903 in Bihar and then many mills were established in many parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
This industry provides employment to more than 4 lakh persons and large number of farmers. It is a seasonal Industry.

Location of the Sugar Industry
As sugarcane is a heavy, low value, weight losing and perishable raw material, thus sugar factories are located mostly in sugarcane growing regions.
Maharashtra has emerged as a leading sugar producer in the country and produces more than one-third of the total production of the sugar in the country. Uttar Pradesh is now the second largest producer of sugar.
There are two belts where sugar factories are located:

  • The Ganga-Yamuna Doab Saharanpur, Muzaffamagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Baghpat and Bulandshar districts.
  • Tarai region Lakhimpur Kheri, Basti, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Bahraich distiricts.

Sugar producing States
Tamil Nadu has sugar factories in Coimbatore, Vellore, Tiruvanamalai, Villupuram and Tiruchchirappalli districts.
In Karnataka, the important sugar producers are Belgaum, Bellary, Mandya, Shimoga, Bijapur, and Chitradurg.
The industry is distributed in the coastal regions i.e. East Godavari, West Godavari, Vishakhapatnam districts and Nizamabad, and Medak districts of Telangana alongwith Chittoor district or Rayalseema.

Other sugar producing states are:

  • Bihar Saran, Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Si wan, Dharbanga, Gaya.
  • Punjab Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Sangarur, Patiala, Amritsar.
  • Haryana Yamuna Nagar, Rohtak, Hissar, Faridabad.
  • Gujarat Sugar industry is comparatively new here. Important sugar producing mills are located in Surat, Junagarh, Rajkot, Amreli, Valsad and Bhavnagar districts.

Petrochemical Industries
This group of industries has been growing very fast in India. The demand of its products is very high since 1960s. Many items are derived from crude petroleum, which provide raw materials for many new industries, these are collectively known as petrochemical industries.
Petrochemical industries are divided into four sub-groups:

  1. Polymers
  2. Synthetic fibres
  3. Elastomers
  4. Surfactant intermediate

Distribution of Petrochemical Industries Mumbai is the hub of the petrochemical industries. Other cracker units are at Auraiya (Uttar Pradesh), Jamnagar, Gandhinagar and Hajira (Gujarat), Nogothane, Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), Haldia (West Bengal) and Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).
There are three organisations which are working in the petrochemical sector under the administrative control of the department of chemicals and petrochemicals:

  • Indian Petrochemical Corporation Limited It is a public sector undertaking and responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of the polymers, chemicals, fibres and fibre intermediates.
  • Petrofies Cooperative Limited (PCL) It is a joint venture of the government of India and weaver’s cooperative societies. It has two plants at Vadodara and Maldhari where polyester filament yam and nylon chips are produced.
  • Central Institutes of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) It is involved in imparting training in petrochemical industry.

Sub-Groups of Petrochemical Industries
Polymers are made from ethylene and propylene which are obtained after refining crude oil. It provides the basic raw material for plastic industry which are preferred because of their strength, flexibility, water and chemical resistance and low prices.
The National Organic Chemical Industries Limited (NOCIL) established in 1961 and started first naphtha based chemical industry in Mumbai. The major producers of plastic materials are Mumbai, Barauni, Mettur, Pimpri and Rishra.

About 75% of these units are in small scale sector. The industry also uses recycled plastics which constitutes about 30% of the total production. Synthetic fibres are widely used in the manufacturing of fabrics because of their durability, washability and resistance to shrinkage.

The important fibres and their producing centres are Nylon and Polyester industries at Kota, Pimpri, Mimbai, Modinagar, Pune, Ujjain, Nagpur and Udhna and Acrylic Staple Fibre Industries at Kota and Vadodara.
Now, plastic has emerged as greatest threat to our environment because of its non-biodegradable quality.

Knowledge Based Industries

  • The IT and IT enabled business process outsourcing (ITES-BPO) services continue to grow with an outstanding rate.
  • A number of software park have been created by the government and the production of the software industries has surpassed electronic hardware production.
  • The contribution of the IT software and services industry in India’s GDP is about 2%.
  • Most of the multinational companies in IT field has re-established software or research development centres in India.
  • In hardware development sector, India has yet not achieved so much but in IT sector, it creates double employment rate every year.

Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation (LPG) and Industrial Development in India
The new industrial policy was annouced in 1991 with the following objectives:

  1. To build on the gains already made.
  2. Correct the distortions or weaknesses that have crept in.
  3. Maintain a sustained growth in productivity, and gainful employment.
  4. Attain international competitiveness.

Following were the policy measures taken under LPG:

  1. Abolition of industrial licensing.
  2. Free entry to foreign technology.
  3. Foreign Investment Policy
  4. Access to capital market.
  5. Open trade
  6. Abolition of phased manufacturing programme.
  7. Liberalised industrial location programme.

The policy has three main dimensions Liberalisation, Privatisation, and globalisation. Except six industries based on security, strategic or environmental concerns, for all industries the licensing system has been abolished. The number of industries reserved for public sector since 1956 have been reduced from 17 to 4. Department of atomic energy as well as railways have remained under the public sector. For investment in delicensed sector no prior approval is required. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) became supplement to domestic investment in achieving a higher level of economic development in this policy. The industrial policy has been liberalised to attract private investor both domestic and multi-nationals.

Globalisation refers to the integration of the country’s economy with the world economy. There is free flow of goods and services, labours, capitals from one nation to another. Globalisation aimed at increasing domestic and external competition through market mechanism and facilitating dynamic relationship with the foreign investors and suppliers of technology.
In Indian context, globalisation has following objectives:

  • Opening of the economy to foreign direct investment by providing facilities to foreign companies to invest in different fields of economic activities in India.
  •  Removing restrictions and obstacles to the entry of multi-national companies in India.
  • Allowing Indian companies to enter into foreign collaboration in India and also encouraging them to set up joint ventures abroad.
  • Carrying out massive import liberalisation programmes by switching over from quantitative restrictions to tariffs in the first place and then bringing down the level of import duties considerably.
  • Instead of a set of export incentives, opting for exchange rate adjustments for promoting export.

Adverse Effect of LPG

  • Infra structural sector was remained untouched while major share went to core sectors.
  • The gap between developed and developing states has became wider and inter-regional disparity has been increased, e.g. out of total investment from 1991-2000, one fourth (23%) was for Maharashtra, 17% for Gujarat, 7% for Andhra Pradesh about 6% for Tamil Nadu, and only 8 % for Uttar Pradesh. Thus, the share of both domestic and foreign investment went to already developed states. Share of both domestic and foreign investment went to already developed states.
  • Economically weaker states could not compete with developed states in open market in attracting industrial investment.

Industrial Regions In India
Due to favourable factors, most of the industries are located in a few pockets. The pockets having high concentration of industries are known as industrial clusters.
Several indices are used to identify the clustering of industries, important among them are:

  1. the number of industrial units
  2. number of industrial workers
  3. quantum of power used for industrial purposes
  4. total industrial output
  5. value added by manufacturing

Industrial Regions and Districts

Major industrial Regions

  1. Mumbai-Puna region
  2. Hugli region
  3. Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu region
  4. Gujarat region
  5. Chotanagpur region
  6. Vishakhapatnam-Guntur region
  7. Gurugram-Delhi-Meerut region
  8. Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram region

Minor Industrial Regions

  1. Ambala-Amritsar
  2. Saharanpur-Muzaffarnagar-Bijnor
  3. Indore-Dewas Ujjain
  4. Jaipur-Ajmer
  5. Kolhapur-South Kannada
  6. Northern Malabar
  7. Middle Malabar
  8. Adilabad-Nizamabad
  9. Allahabad-Varanasi-Mirzapur
  10. Bhojpur-Munger
  11. Durg-Raipur
  12. Bilaspur-Korba
  13. Brahmaputra valley

Industrial Districts

  1. Kanpur
  2. Hyderabad
  3. Agra
  4. Nagpur
  5. Gwalior
  6. Bhopal
  7. Lucknow
  8. Jalpaiguri
  9. Cuttack
  10. Gorakhpur
  11. Aligarh
  12. Kota
  13. Purnia
  14. Jabalpur
  15. Bareilly

Major industrial regions of India are as follows:

Mumbai-Pune Industrial Region
It extends from Mumbai-Thane to Pune and in adjoining districts of Nashik and Solapur. Besides, Kolaba, Ahmednagar, Satara, Sangli and Jalagaon districts also have industries.
Factors which favoured the location of this region are:

  1. Development of cotton textile industry in Mumbai.
  2. Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 gave impetus to Mumbai port.
  3. Machineries were possible to import through this port.
  4. Development of hydro-electricity in Western Ghat region.

Later, a number of industries were developed like chemical industry, Mumbai High petroleum field, nuclear energy plants, engineering goods, petrochemicals, leather, drugs, fertilizers, shipbuilding software, transport equipments and food industries, etc. Important industrial centres are Mumbai, Kolaba, Kalyan, Thane, Trombay, Pune, Pimpri, Nashik, Manmad, Solapur, Kolhapur, Ahmednagar, Satara and Sangli.

Hugli Industrial Region
Located along the Hugli river, this region extends from Bansberia in the north to Birlanagar in the t south and in Mednipur in the west.
Factors which are responsible for the location of industries here are:

  1. Opening of river port on Hugli river.
  2. Kolkata emerged as a leading centre and connected with interior parts by railway lines and road routes.
  3. Development of tea plantations in Assam and northern hills of West Bengal.
  4. Opening of coalfields of the Damodar valley and iron-ore .deposits of the Chotanagpur plateau.
  5. The processing of indigo earlier and jute later.
  6. Availability of labour from Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.
  7. Kolkata attracted British capital as it was the capital city of the Britishers.
  8. The establishment of first jute mill at Rishra in 1855 ushered in the era of modem industrial clustering in this region.
  9. Location of petroleum refinery at Haldia has ’ facilitated the development of a variety of industries here.

The major concentration of jute industry is at Haora and Bhatapara. Important industries are cotton textile, jute, paper, engineering, textile machinery, electrical, chemical, pharmaceuticals, fertiliser and petrochemical industries.
Factory of the Hindustan motors limited at Konnagar and diesel engine factory at Chittaranjan are landmarks of this region. The major industrial centres are Kolkata, Haora, Haldia, Serampur, Rishra, Shippur, Naihati, Kakinara, Shamnagar, Titagarh, Sodepur, Budge Budge, Birlanagar, Bansberia, Belgurriah, Triveni, Hugli, Belur, etc.

Bengaluru (Bangalore} Chennai Industrial Region

  • It is spread over all the districts of Tamil Nadu except Viluppuram.
  • Its development is dependent on the Pykara hydro-electric plant, which was built in 1932.
  • Cotton textile industry was the first to take roots due to the presence of cotton growing areas.
  • Heavy engineering industries are located at Bengaluru.
  • Aircraft (HAL), machine tools, telephone (HTL) and Bharat Electronics are industrial landmarks of this region.
  • Important industries are textiles, rail wagons, diesel engines, radio, light engineering goods, rubber goods, medicines, aluminium, sugar, cement, glass, paper, chemicals, film, cigarette, matchbox, leather goods, etc.
  • Petroleum refinery at Chennai, iron and steel plant at Salem and fertilizer plants are recent developments.

Gujarat Industrial Region
The place for the basis for its activity growth lies between Ahmedabad & Vadodara but this region Extends up to valsad & Surat in the South & to Jamnagar in the west.
Location factors of industries in this region are:

  1. Decline of the cotton textile industry at Mumbai.
  2. This region is located in cotton growing area, hence raw material and market are easily available.
  3. The discovery of oil fields led to the establishment of petrochemical industries around Ankushwar, Vadodara, Jamnagar .
  4. Development of Kandla port.
  5. Petroleum refinery at Koyali.

Important industries are textiles (cotton, silk, synthetic, fabrics), petrochemical industries, heavy and basic chemicals, motor, tractor, diesel engines, textile, machinery, engineering, pharmaceuticals, dyes, pesticides, sugar, dairy products and food processing. Recently, largest petroleum refinery has been set up at Jamnagar. Important industrial centres are Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Koyali, Anand, Khera, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Surat, Valsed, Jamnagar.

Chotanagpur Region
This extends over Jharkhand, Northern Odisha and West Bengal. The region is well known for its heavy metallurgical industries.
Factors which are favourable for the location of industries here are:

  1. Discovery of coal in the Damodar valley.
  2. Metallic and non-metallic minerals in Jharkhand and northern Odisha.
  3. Thermal and hydro-electric plants in the Damodar valley.
  4. Cheap labour from surrounding regions,
  5. Hugli provides vast market for its industries.

Important industries are heavy engineering, machine tools, fertilizers, cement, paper, locomotives, and heavy electricals. Important centres are Ranchi, Dhanbad, Chaibasa, Sindri, Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Rourkela, Durgapur, Asansol and Dalmianagar.

Vishakhapatnam-Guritur Region
This region extends from Vishakhapatnam to Kumool and Prakasam districts in the South.
Important locational factors are:

  1. Presently Vishakhapatnam and Machilipatnam ports, developed agriculture and rich reserves of minerals in their hinterlands.
  2. Coal fields of Godavari basin.
  3. Presence of petroleum refineries.

Guntur district has one lead-zine smelter. Important industries are sugar, textile, jute, paper, fertiliser, cement, aluminium and light engineering. Important centres are Vishakhapatnam,Vijayawada, Vijayanagar, Rajahmundry, Guntur, Eluru and Kumool.

Gurugram-Delhi-Meerut Region

  • The industries of this region are light and market oriented as this region is far located from mineral and power resources.
  • Important’industries are electronics, light engineering, electrical goods, cotton, woollen and synthetic fabrics, hosiery sugar, cement, machine tools, tractor, cycle, vanaspati, etc.
  • Software industry is recently developed.
  • Important industrial centres are Guru gram (Gurgaon), Delhi, Shahdara, Faridabad, Meerut, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Ambala, Agra and Mathura.

Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram Region

  • Important industrial centres are Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alwaye, Emakulam, Punalur, and Alappuzha districts.
  • It is away from mineral belt of India, so agricultural products processing and market oriented light industries predominate the region.
  • Important industries are cotton textile, sugar, rubber, matchbox, glass, chemical fertilizers, fish-based industries, food processing, paper, coconut coir products, aluminium and cement.

NCERT Solution for Class 12 Geography Notes chapter wise

Class 12 Geography Notes : Fundamentals of Human Geography
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Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 1 Human Geography (Nature and Scope)
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 2 The World Population (Distribution, Density and Growth)
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 3 Population Composition
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 4 Human Development
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 5 Primary Activities
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 6 Secondary Activities
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 7 Tertiary and Quaternary Activities
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 8 Transport and Communication
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 9 International Trade
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 10 Human Settlements
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Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 11 Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 12 Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 13 Human Development
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 14 Human Settlements
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 15 Land Resources and Agriculture
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 16 Water Resources
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 17 Mineral and Energy Resources
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 18 Manufacturing Industries
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 19 Planning and Sustainable Development in Indian Context
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 20 Transport And Communication
Class 12 Geography Notes Chapter 21 International Trade
Class 12 Geography NotesChapter 22 Geographical Perspective on Selected Issues and Problems

TEXTUAL QUESTION & ANSWER

.1. Which one of the following is not a factor of industrial location?

(a) Capital

(b) Market

(c) Population density

(d) Power

Ans :- (c) Population density

Q.2. Which one of the following iron and steel industries earliest in India?

(a) IISCO

(b) TISCO

(c) Visvesvaraya Iron And Steel Works 

(d) Mysore Iron and Steel Works

Ans :-  (b) TISCO

Q.3. Which one of the following is the main reason for establishment of modern cotton mills in Mumbai?

(a) It is located near cotton growing area

(b) Mumbai is a port

(c) Mumbai was the financial centre

(d) All of the above

Ans :-  (a) It is located near cotton growing area

Q.4. Which one of the following is the nucleus of the Hugli Industrial Region?

(a) Kolkata-Rishra

(b) Kolkata-Howrah

(c) Kolkata-Medinipur

(d) Kolkata-Konnagar

Ans :- (b) Kolkata-Howrah

Q.5. The second largest producer of sugar is

(a) Punjab

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Tamil Nadu

Ans :- (b) Uttar Pradesh

 VERY SHORT TYPE QUESTION & ANSWER

Q.6. What are the differences between two sectors of cotton textile industries?

Ans :- The two sectors of the cottage textile industries are –

(a) Organised sector

(b) Decentralised sector 

The main difference between two are :

(i) In organised sector cloths are manufactured in mills spinning thread to weave the cloth.

(ii) In decentralised sector clothes are manufactured in handlooms and power looms.

Q.7. What is the base raw material for the petrochemical industry? What are the main products of this industry? 

Ans :- Raw material base for the petrochemical industry is the petroleum products.

Some of the products of petrochemical industry are – 

(i) Plastic products (ii) Synthetic fibres (iii) Acrylic staple fibre.

Q.8. Why is the sugar industry a seasonal industry?

Ans :- In Sugar industries sugarcane is the raw material. Sugarcane is available for crushing only from December to April. In other months sugarcane is not ripened to be used. So, the sugar industry is seasonal. 

Q.9. What is the major impact of the Information Technology revolution in India? 

Ans :- The major impact of Information Technology (IT) revolution in India are –

(i) Contribution in GDP of India (2 Percent)

(ii) Large employment opportunities.

(iii) Earning more foreign exchange by providing high quality hardware and software.

(iv) In research.

(v) In transportation.

Q.10. Why is calling the iron and steel industry a basic to the industrial development of a country? 

Ans :- Iron and steel industry is basic to the industrial development of a country because this industry supplies iron and steel to other industries as raw material. If it does not supply iron and steel the machines which are used in various industries cannot be manufactured and the industrial development would come to an end.

Q.11. What is the significance of industries to us?

Ans :- The advantages of industries are:

(i) employment in the country

(ii) economic boom and latest technology

(iii) less poverty

(iv) more development

(v) more jobs for people

(vi) increase in exports which will make large profits and will be utilized in the development of country

(vii) GDP per capita will increase

(viii) high standard of living

(ix) more services for people, this means more aidz and health services

(x) literacy rate increase and less deaths

(xi) taxes for govt

(xii) stable govt and recent weapons for the defence of the country.

Q.12. What do you understand by Co-operative Industries? 

Ans :- Cooperative sector industries are owned and managed by a group of people. Generally the members are the producers of raw materials. Examples of such industries are handloom, food processing and dairy products. Amul is an example of cooperative sector society.

Q.13. What is Capital Goods Industries?

Ans :- Industries which manufacture capital goods are called capital goods industries.

Q.14. Why is the Sugar Industry a Reasonable Industry?

Ans :- Sugar industry is a seasonal industry because mills are operational only from December to April when sugarcane is available for crushing. In other months sugarcane is not ripened to be used in manufacturing sugar.

SHORT TYPE QUESTION & ANSWER : (MARKS – 3)

Q.15. Give a note on the evolution of the cotton textile industry in India.

Ans :- Evolution of Cotton Textile Industry in India.

(i) After the first mills were set up in Mumbai and Ahmedabad in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cotton textile industry expanded very rapidly.

(ii) Number of units increased dramatically.

(iii) The Swadeshi Movement gave a major boost to the industry as people boycotted British goods in favour of Indian goods.

(iv) After 1921 with the development of the railway network other cotton textile centres expanded rapidly.

(a) In southern states mills were set up at Coimbatore, Madurai and Bangalore.

(b) In central India. Nagpur, Indore, Solapur and Vadodara became cotton textile centres.

(c) Cotton textile mills were set up at Kanpur based on local investment. 

(d) Mills were also set up at Kolkata due to its port facilities.

(v) The development of hydro-electricity also favoured the location of the cotton textile mills away from the cotton producing areas.

(a) Rapid development of this industry in Tamil Nadu is the result of the abundant availability of hydel power for the mills.

(b) Lower labour costs at centres like Ujjain, Bharuch, Agra. Hathras, Coimbatore and Tirunelvelt also caused industries to be located away from cotton producing areas.

(vi) Today cotton textile industry is located in almost every state of India on the basis of one or more favourable locational factors.

(vii) Importance of raw materials has given way to the market or to a cheaper local labour force or to availability of power.

Q.16. State the various problems faced by the Petrochemical industry of India.

Ans :- Problems faced by the Indi petrochemical industry: 

(i) The manufacturing units mostly use obsolete technology and are not able to produce optimally.

(ii) There is a necessity for the modernization of equipments

(iii) Excise duty on synthetic fiber should be rationalized 

(iv) Prevention of reservation on Small Scale Units

(v) Plastic waste to be recycled and the littering habits to be discouraged

(vi) India requires advantage on feedstock, so the import cost has to be brought down

(vii) The industry should have access to the primary amenities of infrastructure.

Q.17. What are the major features of liberalization?

Ans :- Essential features of Liberalisation : 

(i) Make the industry freedom from unnecessary controls and restrictions.

(ii) Abolish processing equipment except a short list.

(iii) Abolish restriction on expansion of contraction of business activities.

(iv) Removal the restriction on the movement of goods and services.

(v) Freedom in fixation of price of goods and services.

(vi) Minimising tax rates.

(vii) Easy forcing capital and technology.

(vii) Simplifying the system of import and export.

Q.18. What are the major indices used for clustering of industries? 

Ans : (i) Several indices are used to identify the clustering of industries.

(ii) Some important among them are :

(a) The number of industrial units.

(b) Number of industrial workers.

(iii) Quantum of power used for industrial purposes.

(iv) Total industrial output and

(v) Value added by manufacturing etc.

Q.19. Give the major features of globalization. 

Ans :- Essential features of Globalization:

(i) Global outlook towards economic activities.

(ii) Free flow of goods and services across countries.

(iii) Free flow of capital across nations.

(iv) Free flow of information technology.

(v) Free movement of people across borders. 

(vi) Establishment of common and acceptable mechanism settlement of disputes.

Q.20. Write the major features of foreign collaboration.

Ans :- The major features of foreign collaboration for the growth of business are as follows :

(i) Agreement : Foreign collaboration is an agreement or contract between two or more companies from different countries for mutual benefit. The collaborating agreement can be between :

(a) Domestic and foreign private firm.

(b) Domestic and foreign public firm.

(c) Domestic Public and foreign private firm.

(d) Domestic government and foreign government.

(ii) Government consent : Foreign collaboration is now recognized as an important driver of growth in the country. Foreign collaboration requires Government approval, as the collaboration involves partnership between two countries. Some legal formalities are to be fulfilled to enter into a contract. That requires government permission.

(iii) World integration : Globalisation means integration of the world economy, where the world becomes a single market. Foreign collaboration allows different countries to enter into partnership and reap the benefit. It helps both the developed and developing countries to come together to achieve the common objectives and maintains international peace.

(iv) Growth of the industrial sector : Foreign collaboration leads to growth of industries of the countries coming into contract. Foreign collaboration develops industries and increases employment opportunities, thereby improving the working conditions of the masses. Foreign collaboration encourages domestic and international entrepreneurs to invest in business activities and accelerates industrial growth.

(v) Gives legal Identity : Foreign collaboration is a legal entity between two or more parties for a particular purpose or venture.

(vi) Helps to meet our requirements : As no country in the world is self-sufficient in itself. All countries need to be dependent on each other to meet out the requirements. Interdependence among countries is a common phenomenon these days. Foreign collaboration is very useful in meeting out the deficiencies of the resources and in getting advanced technology with competitive prices.

Q.21. Give an account of Gujarat industrial region.

Ans :- The nucleus of this region lies between Ahmedabad and Vadodara but this region extends upto Valsad and Surat in the south and to Jamnagar in the west. Development of this region is also associated with the location of the cotton textile industry since the 1860s. This region became an important textile industry in Mumbai. Located in a cotton growing area, this region has the double advantage of the proximity of raw materials as well as of the market. 

The discovery of oil fields led to the establishment of petrochemical industries around Ankleshwar. Vadodara and Jamnagar. The port at Kandla helped in the rapid growth of this region. Petroleum refinery at Koyali provided raw materials to a host of petrochemical industries. The industrial structure is now diversified. Besides, textiles (cotton, silk and synthetic fabrics) and petrochemical industries, other industries are heavy and basic chemicals, motor, tractor, diesel engines, textile machinery, engineering. pharmaceuticals, dyes, pesticides, sugar, dairy products and food processing. Recently the largest petroleum refinery has been set up at Jamnagar. Important industrial centres of this region are Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Koyali, Anand, Khera, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Surat, Valsad and Jamnagar.

Q.22. Write the major features of Gurgaon-Delhi-Meerat region. 

Ans :- Industries located in this region have shown very fast growth in the recent past. This region is located far away from the mineral and power resources, and therefore, the industries are light and market-oriented. Electronics, light engineering and electrical goods are major industries of this region. Besides, there are cotton woollen and synthetic fabrics, hosiery, sugar, cement, machine tools, tractor, cycle, agricultural implements, chemical and vanaspati industries which have developed on a large scale. 

Software industry is a recent addition. To the south lies the Agra-Mathura industrial area which specialised in glass and leather goods. Mathura with an oil refinery is a petrochemical complex. Among industrial centres, mention be made of Guragaon, Delhi, Shahdara, Faridabad, Meerut, Modinagar. Ghaziabad, Ambala, Agra and Mathura.

Q.23. Give a note on Chotanagpur industrial region. 

Ans :- Chotanagpur industrial region extends over Jharkhand, northern Orissa and western West Bengal and is known for the heavy metallurgical industries. This region owes its development to the discovery of coal in the Damodar Valley and metallic and non-metallic minerals in Jharkhand and northern Orissa. Proximity to coal, iron ore and other minerals facilitated the location of heavy industries in this region, Six large integrated iron and steel plants at Jamshedpur, Burnpur Kulti, Durgapur, Bokaro and Rourkela are located within this region. 

To meet the power requirement. thermal and hydroelectric plants have been constructed in the Damodar Valley. Densely populated surrounding regions provide cheap labour and Hugli region provides a vast market for its industries. Heavy engineering. machine tools, fertilisers, cement, paper, locomotives and heavy electricals are some of the important industries in this region. Important centres are Ranchi, Dhanbad, Chaibasa, Sindri, Hazaribag. Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Rourkela, Durgapur, Asansol and Dalmianagar.

Q.24. What are the major indices used for Clustering of Industries. 

Ans :- (i) Several indices are used to identify the clustering of industries.

(ii) Some important among them are :

(a) The number of industrial units.

(b) Number of industrial workers.

(iii) Quantum of power used for industrial purposes.

(iv) Total industrial output and

(v) Value added by manufacturing etc.

Q.25. Write the major features of Liberalisation of Industries.

Ans :- Essential features of Liberalisation : 

(i) Make the industry freedom from unnecessary controls and restrictions.

(ii) Abolish processing equipment except a short list.

(iii) Abolish restriction on expansion of contraction of business activities.

(iv) Removal the restriction on the movement of goods and services.

(v) Freedom in fixation of price of goods and services.

(vi) Minimising tax rates.

(vii) Easy forcing capital and technology.

(vii) Simplifying the system of import and export.

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