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  • Question 1
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    It started as a cottage industry.
    Solution
    Usually, cottage industries were groups of rural homes working together to make products, which in this case, were textiles. Cottage industries developed the first form of specialization. Before they existed, the same person would use raw materials and do every step until they had made a completed item, ready to sell.
  • Question 2
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    Which of the following states is the leading producer of jute products in the country?
    Solution

    • Jute which is also called as golden fibre is produced mostly in Bangladesh and in West Bengal in India. Jute in West Bengal is grown along the Hooghly river belt due to its fertile soils.
    • After independence during partition major hectarage of jute went into Bangla Desh but most of the industries are located on the banks of Hooghly River.

  • Question 3
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    What makes your toothpaste white?
    Solution
    Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is commonly applied to enhance the white color and brightness of food products. TiO2 is also used as a white pigment in other products such as toothpaste. A small fraction of the pigment is known to be present as nanoparticles.
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    A considerable part of our cotton, woollen and silk goods is produced on handlooms and powerlooms. The handloom and Khadi industry is located ______________.
    Solution
    Cotton, Wollen and Silk goods is produced in the large power loom factories. It includes manufacturing of clothes using fibre or filament synthetic yarns. The handloom and Khadi industry is located largely in rural areas of India and were considered as important opportunities for providing rural employment. It was felt that this was a good way to provide non-farm employment opportunities to the poor artisans, who were otherwise unemployed and suffering from acute poverty, at very low per capita investment.

  • Question 5
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    __________ is not a physical factor which contributes to the location of individual industries.
    Solution
    Many important factors involved in the location of individual industries are of relative significance, e.g., availability of raw materials, power resources, water, labour, markets and the transport facilities in which labour is not a physical factor.
  • Question 6
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    Why is there a need to always import cotton?
    Solution
    In India, most of the cotton textile mills are working with old and obsolete machinery. The spindles are more than 30 years old. Obsolete machinery results in low output and poor quality of goods as a result of which Indian textile goods are not able to face competition in the international market. Also, India faces shortage of raw material which has to be imported from Australia, Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt, USA, Peru.
  • Question 7
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    What is the full form of NMCC? 
    Solution
    The NMCC was established in 2004 as a part of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the erstwhile government to provide a continuing forum for policy dialogue to energize and sustain the growth of the manufacturing industry.
  • Question 8
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    The first cement plant was set up in _________.
    Solution

    • The first cement plant was set up in 1904, in Chennai.
    • First attempt to manufacture cement in an organized way commenced in Madras. South India Industries Limited began the manufacture of Portland cement in 1904. But the effort did not succeed and the company had to halt production.
    • Finally, it was in 1914 that the first licensed cement manufacturing unit was set up by India Cement Company Ltd at Porbandar, Gujarat with an available capacity of 10,000 tons and production of 1000 installed.

  • Question 9
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    Common indicator organism of water pollution is:
    Solution
    Commonly it is called as E. coli bacteria. Its presence indicates that the water is polluted. This bacteria is not very harmful. It causes food poisoning in their hosts. It is expelled out in the environment with the fecal matter. 

  • Question 10
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    Which of the following fertilizer plant is not in the public sector?
    Solution
    Kota fertilizer plant is not in the public sector. Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited is among the largest private-sector fertilizer producers in India. It was promoted by Zuari Industries Limited in the year 1985 at Kota in Rajasthan. But National Fertilizers Ltd, i.e. NFL was promoted by the Government of India in 1974. NFL had set up fuel oil-based urea plants at Panipat and Bhatinda. And Later, the NFL also set up its plant at Nangal. Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd is at Gorakhpur. It is also under the public sector set up. Thus the correct answer is Kota means option C. 
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