Manufacturing I...

Which of the following is/are agro based industries?

a. Sugar industry
b. Textile industry
c. Petrochemicals

Which of the following is/are not categorised as heavy industries?

a. Iron and steel
b. Chemicals
c. Electrical

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. India has the second largest installed capacity of spindles in the world.
b. India's trade in garments is only 4 percent of the world's total.
c. India's trade in the cotton yarn is almost 10 percent of the world's total.

Which of the following is a market for Indian jute products?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The jute industry is facing stiff competition from synthetic substitutes and competitors.
b. National Jute Policy was formulated in 1995.
c. The internal demand for jute has been on the increase.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. India stands first as a world producer of sugar.
b. India occupies the second place in the production of gur and khandsari.

Which of the following is used to harden the steel during manufacturing?

Production and consumption of which of the following is regarded as the index of a country's development?

The fertiliser industry produces fertilisers which have a combination of nitrogen (N), phosphate (P) and potash (K). Which of the following is/are entirely imported?

a. N
b. P
c. K

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. (STPI) Software Technology Parks of India have come up across 6 locations at different centres of India.
b. 30 per cent of the people employed in the information technology and electronics sector are women.
c. This industry has been a major foreign exchange earner in the last two or three years because of its fast growing BPO sector.

Treatment of industrial effluents in the water can be done in three phases. Which of the following is done in the final or the tertiary phase?

Rapid growth has been recorded in both inorganic and organic chemical industries. Which of the following is/are inorganic chemicals?

a. Sulphuric acid
b. Petrochemicals
c. Nitric acid
d. Caustic soda

Which of the following is made with soda ash?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Thermal pollution of water occurs when hot water from factories and thermal plants is drained into rivers and ponds before cooling.
b. Air pollution is caused by the presence of high proportion of undesirable gases, such as sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Primary treatment of polluted water can be done by mechanical means which involve screening, grinding, flocculation and sedimentation.
b. Secondary treatment can be done by biological processes.
c. Tertiary treatment can be done by biological, chemical and physical processes which involves recycling of wastewater.

Match the following columns:

Which of the following industries is located in the Hugli basin of West Bengal?

In which of the following states is aluminium smelting plant not located?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Sixty percent sugar mills are in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
b. Sugar industry is seasonal in nature.
c. The cane produced in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has a higher sucrose content.

Organic chemicals include petrochemicals, which are used for manufacturing of which of the following?

a. Glass
b. Synthetic fibers
c. Plastics
d. Pharmaceuticals