Question 1 : Which is the oldest industrial area of India?
a) Kolkata – Hooghly Industrial Area
b) Chota Nagpur Industrial Area
c) Mumbai – Kolhapur – Pune Industrial Area
d) Visakhapatnam Industrial Area
Answer : a
Question 2 : The belt extending from Amritsar Gurdaspur to Ludhiana is famous for
a) Silk Industry
b) Jute Industry
c) Woollen Industry
d) Cotton textile Industry
Answer : c
Question 3 : Madurai-Coimbatore industrial belt is known for which of the following Industry?
a) Coffee
b) Leather Industry
c) Coke-producing Industry
d) Silk Cloth Industry
Answer : c
Question 4 : Which one of the following is the oldest industry in India?
a) Jute
b) Cotton textiles
c) Tea
d) Sugar
Answer : b
Question 5 : Which of the following is not correct regarding the industrial development in India?
a) The first iron and steel industry was established in India in Kulti (West Bengal) in 1872
b) The first successful paper mill was established in Lucknow in 1879
c) The first shipping industry in India was established in Vishakhapatnam in 1907
d) Associate Cement Company Limited (ACC) was founded in 1934
Answer : c
Question 6 : In which of the following industrial regions of India Sivakasi centre is located?
a) Chota Nagpur region
b) Ahmedabad-Vadodara region
c) Madurai-Coimbatore Bengaluru region
d) Kolkata-Hooghly region
Answer : c
Question 7 : What is Diamond Park?
a) These are the National Parks developed by the Central Environment Ministry on hilly areas of India
b) These are the places where refineries have been established
c) These are the industrial zones which have been created to promote manufacturing and export of diamonds and synthetic jewellery and ornaments
d) These are the centres where huge power projects are established
Answer : c
Question 8 : Which one of the following industrial/economic corridors of India is being developed in collaboration with Japan?
a) Chennai – Vizag
b) Mumbai – Bengaluru
c) Delhi – Mumbai
d) Amritsar – Kolkata
Answer : c
Question 9 : Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh is known for
a) Paper
b) Jute
c) Automobile
d) Aluminium
Answer : c
Question 10 : ‘Manchester’ of South India is
a) Coimbatore
b) Madurai
c) Bengaluru
d) Chennai
Answer : a
Question 11 : It is basically a traditional centre for cotton. The town accounts for the bulk of India’s cotton knitwear exports to all over the world. The Noyyal river runs across the town, virtually dividing it into two halves.
a) Guntur (Andhra Pradesh)
b) Tripur (Tamil Nadu)
c) Erode (Tamil Nadu)
d) Subarnpur (Odisha)
Answer : b
Question 12 : Which one of the following is not correct in the context of industrial cluster development in India?
a) Industrial clusters play an important role for the MSME participants in their inclusiveness, technology absorption and efficiency improvement
b) Industrial cluster are visible in traditional handloom handicraft and modern SMC
c) Industrial cluster programmes in India are administered by various ministries
d) Industrial clusters lead to promotion of monopoly in the market
Answer : d
Question 13 : Establishing basic industry was the goal of which of the following Five Year Plans?
a) First Five Year Plan
b) Second Five Year Plan
c) Third Five Year Plan
d) Fourth Five Year Plan
Answer : b
Question 14 : In the context of India’s Five Year Plan, a shift in the pattern of industrialisation, with lower emphasis on heavy industries and more on infrastructure begins in
a) Fourth Plan
b) Sixth Plan
c) Eighth Plan
d) Tenth Plan
Answer : c
Question 15 : Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
a) Kolkata-Hooghly region – Titagarh
b) Chota Nagpur region – Sivakasi
c) Mumbai – Pune region – Ambernath
d) Ahmedabad – Vadodara – Bharuch region
Answer : b
Question 16 : Consider the following statements regarding India’s Industrial regions.
I. The Kollam – Thiruvananthapuram regions are dominated by agricultural products because it is away from the country’s mineral belts.
II. The Chota Nagpur region is also called as the Rhur of India
Which of the following statements given above is/are correct?
a) Both I and II
b) Only I
c) Only II
d) None of these
Answer : a
Question 17 : Which of the following regions is/are not known for cotton-textile industry?
I. Mumbai – Pune region
II. Madurai – Coimbatore region
III. Dhanbad – Jamshedpur region
IV. Indore – Ujjain region
a) I and III
b) II and III
c) I, II and IV
d) Only III
Answer : d
Question 18 : Assertion (A) : Maximum concentration of Jute mills in India is between Naihati and Kolkata
Reason (R) : Jute industry in India, is traditionally export-oriented
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is true, but R is false
d) A is false, but R is true
Answer : b
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Question 22 : In which of the following area, the first cotton textile factory had begun in 1818?
a) Fort Gloster in West Bengal
b) Mumbai in Maharashtra
c) Ahmedabad in Gujarat
d) Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh
Answer : a
Question 23 : The first cotton mill of India was established at
a) Bombay
b) Ahmedabad
c) Baroda
d) Calcutta
Answer : d
Question 24 : The largest number of cotton mills in Tamil Nadu are found in
a) Chennai
b) Coimbatore
c) Madurai
d) Salem
Answer : b
Question 25 : In which year was India’s first cotton textile industry set up in Ghusrui near Kolkata?
a) 1818
b) 1821
c) 1819
d) 1823
Answer : a
Question 26 : Which group of steel plants were established in India after independence?
a) Jamshedpur, Durgapur, Bihali
b) Bhilai, Durgapur, Bhadravati
c) Bhilai, Durgapur, Rourkela
d) Kulti-Burnpur, Visakhapatnam, Salem
Answer : c
Question 27 : Bhilai Steel Plant is the collaborative project of the Indian Government and
a) Russia
b) Britain
c) Germany
d) Poland
Answer : a
Question 28 : Which of the following Iron and Steel plants is not close to raw material area?
a) Jamshedpur
b) Rourkela
c) Durgapur
d) Salem
Answer : d
Question 29 : TISCO plant is located near
a) Patna
b) Darbhanga
c) Dhanbad
d) Tatanagar
Answer : d
Question 30 : Which of the following places does not have Iron and Steel Industry?
a) Jharia
b) Jamshedpur
c) Durgapur
d) Bhilai
Answer : a
Question 31 : The Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Ltd is located at
a) Bengaluru
b) Bhadravati
c) Mangalore
d) Mysore
Answer : b
Question 32 : Bokaro Steel Plant was constructed with the collaboration of
a) USA
b) Germany
c) England
d) Russia
Answer : d
Question 33 : Which one of the following industries earns maximum Foreign Exchange for India?
a) Tea
b) Jute
c) Iron and Steel
d) Sugar
Answer : c
Question 34 : Which one of the following steel plants was started in 1965 in India with West German collaboration?
a) Jamshedpur – Tata Steel Plant
b) Bokaro Steel Plant
c) Durgapur Steel Plant
d) Rourkela Steel Plant
Answer : d
Question 35 : Rourkela Steel Plant gets its supplies of iron ore from
a) Keonjhar
b) Dalli-Rajhara
c) Kamangundi
d) Myurbhanj
Answer : a
Question 36 : The local supply of coal is not available to
a) TISCO, Jamshedpur
b) VSL, Bhadravati
c) HSL, Durgapur
d) HSL, Bhilai
Answer : b
Question 37 : Which one of the following centres is not known for iron and steel industry?
a) Bhadravati
b) Salem
c) Visakhapatnam
d) Renukoot
Answer : d
Question 38 : In India, the steel production industry requires the import of
a) Saltpetre
b) Rock Phosphate
c) Coking coal
d) All of these
Answer : c
Question 39 : Some iron and steel plants have been planned along the Western cost of India. What is the major reason for this locational shift in this industry?
a) Increased nuclear power generation in the Western Coastal region
b) The occurrence of high-grade iron ore deposits in Goa and parts of Madhya Pradesh and the comparative ease of exporting steel from here
c) The decline in international demand for Indian iron ore from the Western coastal region
d) Adoption of sponge from technology
Answer : b
Question 40 : Which one of the following statements is not correct?
a) Rourkela Steel Plant, the first integrated steel plant in the Public Sector of India was set up with the Soviet Union Collaboration
b) Salem Steel Plant is a premier producer of stainless steel in India
c) Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd is a subsidiary of the Steel Authority of India Ltd.
d) Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is a unit of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
Answer : a
Question 41 : Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
a) Bhilai – Madhya Pradesh
b) Durgapur – West Bengal
c) Jamshedpur – Jharkahand
d) Rourkela – Odisha
Answer : a
Question 42 : At which of the following places Bharat Wagon and Engineering Co Ltd is situated?
a) Madhepura
b) Jamalpur
c) Harnat
d) Mokama
Answer : d
Question 43 : Korba in Chhattisgarh is known for
a) Aluminium industry
b) Copper
c) Mica
d) Steel
Answer : a
Question 44 : Which of the following company does not manufacture aluminium?
a) TELCO
b) BALCO
c) NALCO
d) HINDALCO
Answer : a
Question 45 : Which one among the following is not correctly matched?
a) BALCO – Raipur
b) HINDALCO – Pipari
c) NALCO – Bhubaneswar
d) HCL – Khetri
Answer : a
Question 46 : At which of the following places the copper industry is located?
a) Tarapur
b) Titlagarh
c) Ranchi
d) Khetri
Answer : d
Question 47 : Which of the following is a silk textile producing centre in Bihar?
a) Motipur
b) Bajari
c) Bhagalpur
d) Dalmianagar
Answer : c
Question 48 : Where is located the largest centre of petrochemical production?
a) Jamnagar
b) Ankleshwar
c) Nunmati
d) Trombay
Answer : a
Question 49 : The Tapa Iron and Steel Plant was established in which of these districts?
a) Bankura
b) South 24 Parganas
c) Singbhum
d) Nalanda
Answer : c
Question 50 : India’s largest petro-chemical factory is situated in the state of
a) Gujarat
b) West Bengal
c) Assam
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer : a
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