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India Physical (Part -4)

IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES OF INDIA

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY

The oldest and the largest organised modern industry of India.

MANUFACTURING CENTRES

  • Mumbai largest centre.
  • Other centres: Nagpur, Amravati,Wardha, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Pune, Satara, Solapur, and Kolhapur.

Gujarat

  • Ahmedabad Second largest centre after Mumbai.
  • Otrher centres: Porbandar, Rajkot, Vadodara Surat.

Madhya Pradesh

  • Bhopal, Indore, Dewas, Ujjain, Ratlam, Gwalior, Jabalpur etc.

Tamil Nadu

  • Coimbatore. (Most importatn centre) Other centres - Chennai, Perambur, Salem, Tiruchirapalli,  Madurai, Tirunelvelli, Tuticorin, etc.

West Bengal

  • Kolkata (most important centre).
  • Other centres: Howrah, Serampur, Murshidabad, etc.

Uttar Pradesh

  • Kanpur (largest centre). Other centres: Varanasi, Mirzapur, Lucknow, Agra, Modinagar, Saharanpur etc.

Rajasthan

  • Jaipur, Pali, Bhilwara, Kota, Udaipur, Ganganagar.

Karnataka

  • Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Chitradurga, Belgaum.

Orissa

  • Cuttack.

Punjab

  • Amritsar, Dhariwal, Phagwara, Ludhiana.

Kerala

  • Thiruvananthapuram, Alleppey.

Bihar

  • Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur.

Andhra Pradesh

  • Hyderabad, Secundarabad, Rajamundry, East Godavari and Udayagiri.

JUTE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

  • First large scale industry was established in 1855 at Rishra, (near Serampur) in West Bengal.
  • This industry suffered a great because of partition in 1947 becasue 80 percen of Jute producing areas went to Bangladesh while almost all the Jute mills remained in India.

MANUFACTURING CENTRES

West Bengal (56 mills)

  • Kolkata.
  • Other centres: Rishra, Serampore, Titagarh etc. mainly along the both banks of Hooghli river.

Andhra Pradesh

  • Vishakhapatnam, Eluru, Guntur and Ongole.
  • Other important states:

Uttar Pradesh

  • Kanpur, Gorakhpur and Shahjawan.

Bihar

  • Darbhanga, Samastipur, Purnea, Katihar and Gaya.

WOOLEN TEXTILE INDUSTRY

  • One of the oldest textile Industries of India. The first woolen mill was started at Kanpur in 1876.

MANUFACTURING CENTERS

Punjab

  • Dhariwal (largest centre).
  • Other centres: Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala.

Maharashtra

  • Mumbai (industry based on imported wool).
  • Other Centres: Jalgaon, Ambernath.

Uttar Pradesh

  • Kanpur, largest Woolen Textile centre in the state).
  • Other Centres: Modinagar, Allahabad, Varanasi and Mirzapur.

Gujarat

  • Jamnagar, Kalol, Vadodara.

Other Important states:

Karnataka

  • Bangalore, Bellary.

Tamil Nadu

  • Chennai, Salem.

Jammu and Kashmir

  • Srinagar.

Himachal Pradesh

  • Kullu

West Bengal

  • Kolkata.

SILK AND SYNTHETIC FIBRE INDUSTRIES

  • About 98 percent of the total production comes fromKarnataka,West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.

MANUFACTURING CENTERS

Karnataka

  • Bangaloe, Kolar and Mysore.

West Bengal

  • Murshidabad, Bankura, 24 Parganas and Birbhum districts.

Jammu and Kashmir

  • Srinagar (big centre).
  • Other Centres: Baramulla, Anantnag, Udhampur, Jammu.

Other Important states:

Bihar

  • Bhagalpur (famous for silk industry), Patna, Gaya.

Jharkhand

  • Palamau, Hazaribagh.

Madhya Pradesh

  • Birlanagar, Viragram and Indore.

Uttar Pradesh

  • Varanasi.

CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES

  • Fourth largest set of industries after textiles, iron and steel and engineering industries.
  • Products of chemical industry are more multifarious than of any other industries of equal importance.

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