NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Geography Chapter 8 Manufacturing Industry

Q.1: Choose the right answers of the following from the given options.


(i) Which is not a factor of industrial location?
(a) Market
(b) Capital
(c) Population Density
(d) Power


(ii) earliest Iron and Steel Company to be established in India was:
(a) llsco
(b) TISCO
(c) Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Works
(d) Mysore Iron and Steel Works.


(iii) The first modern cotton mill was established in Mumbai because:
(a) Mumbai is a port
(b) It is I oc ated near cotton growing area
(c) Mumbai was the financial centre
(d) All of the above.


(iv) The nucleus of the Hugli Industrial Region is:
(a) Kolkata -Haora
(b) Kolkata-Rishra
(c) Kolkata-Medinipur
(d) Kolkata-Konnagar


(v) Which one of the following is the second largest producer of sugar:
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Punjab
(d) Tamil Nadu

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Q.2: Answer the following questions in about 30 words.


(i) Why do you think that the iron and steel industry is basic to the industrial development of any country?
(ii) Name the two sectors of the cottage textile industries. How are they different?
(iii) Why is the sugar industry a seasonal industry?
(iv) What is the raw material base for the petrochemical industry? Name some of the products of this industry.
(v) What is the major impact of Information Technology (ID revolution in India)?

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Q.3: Answer the following questions in about 150 words.
(i) How did the Swadeshi Movement give a major impetus to the cotton textiles industry?
(ii) What do you understand by liberalisation. privatisation and globalisation? How have they helped industrial development in India?

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