Saturday, May 26, 2018

India Facts 9

ഇന്ത്യയിലെ വ്യവസായങ്ങൾ, നോട്ട് നിരോധനം, സാമ്പത്തിക ആസൂത്രണത്തിലെ ആദ്യകാല പ്ലാനുകൾ എന്നിവയാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ
  • Oldest industry in India
                 Cotton-textile industry
  • Largest producer of cotton in India
                 Gujarat
  • Port export maximum amount of cotton from India
                 Mumbai (Kandla port export large quantity of textile garments)
  • Indian state which has the largest number of cotton mills
                 Maharashtra (Cottonopolis in India-Mumbai)
  • Largest producer of Jute in India
                 West Bengal (Golden fibre: Jute)
  • Largest jute producing and exporting country in the world
                 India (As per new reports. Bangladesh 2nd)
  • Largest producer of wool in India
                 Punjab (Karnataka: Largest for Silk)
  • Largest producer of Silk in the world
                 China (India 2nd)
  • Manchester in India                    : Ahammadabad
  • Manchester in South India         : Coimbatore
  • Manchester in North India         : Kanpur
  • City of weavers\Textile city       : Panipat
  • Sugar bowl of India                    : Uttar Pradesh
  • Second largest agro based industry after cotton in India
                 Sugar Industry (Largest sugar producing state : UP)
  • Largest producer of paper in India
                 Maharashtra (UP Maximum number of paper mills)
  • Largest paper mill in India
                 Bellarpur in Maharashtra
  • National news print & paper mills situated in
                 Nepanagar (Madhya Pradesh. First nes paper mill also there)
  • Photopaper and films are produced at
                 Udyogamandal, Tamil Nadu
  • Largest steel plant in India
                 Bokaro, Jharkhand (First iron and steel industry started at : Porto Novo, 1830)
  • Father of Indian industry
                 Jamshedji Tata
  • Largest steel plant in private sector
                 Tata Iron and steel company (TISCO, Jharkhand, located on the banks of Suvarnarekha)
  • Steel plant located near sea shore
                 Vishakhapattanam Steel Plant, Andhra Pradesh
  • Bhilai            : Chattisgarh
  • IISCO            : West Bengal
  • Dhitri             : Paradwip, Odisha
  • Vijaya Nagar  : Karnataka
  • Visweswarayya iron and Steel works is located on the banks of
                 Bhadravati river, Karnataka
  • Authority controls all steel plants under public sector in India
                 Steel Authority of India (SAIL)
  • Steel plant constructed with support of Germany
                 Rourkala, Odisha
  • Bhilai, Vishakhapattanam     : Russia
  • Durgapur, West Bengal         : Britain
  • Second largest metallurgical industry of India
                 Aluminium
  • Largest Aluminium plant in India
                 NALCO, Odisha
  • India's biggest ship building yard
                 Cochin shipyard (Started in 1972. India's modernised ship building yard)
  • India's first ISO 9001 ship building yard
                 Hindustan shipyard, Vishakhapattanam (First one in India 1948)
  • Garden Reach Workshop       : Cochin
  • Mazagon Dock (Naval Ship) : Mumbai
  • Hoogly dock                          : Kolkatta
  • Goa shipyard                         : Vascodagama
  • India's position among world countries in ship building
                 Second
  • Chittaranjan locomotive works and diesel locomotiveworks are located at
                 Chittaranjan, West Bengal
  • Country associated with Integral coach factory at Perambur, Tamil Nadu
                 Switzerland
  • Electric locomotive for Indian railway was developed by
                 BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd)
  • Maximum number of fertilizer plants are in the state of
                 Gujarat
  • Who is known as father of Indian Chemical Industry
                 P C Ray
  • Largest producers of cement in India
                 Madhyapradesh, Chattisgarh (First started in Chennai)
  • Central leather research Institute is at
                 Chennai (First leather tanning center is in Kanpur)
  • Largest producer of glass in India
                 Firozabad, Agra, UP (Silika is the raw material)
  • Special economic zones in India announced as part of
                 Export import (EXIM) policy of India
  • India's first SEZ free trade zone
                 Kandla, Gujarat, 1965
  • Union government announced demonetisation of 500 and 1000 notes on
                 8th November 2016 (came in to effect on 9th November)
  • Presently largest circulating currency
                 2000 (Picture in that is of Mangalyan)
  • RBI governor who signed on new 50, 200, 500 and 2000 notes
                 Urjit Patel
  • National level scheme mentioned in the new 50, 200, 500 and 2000 notes
                 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
  • No of times demonetisation happened in India
                 Three times (Firstly in 1946 Second in 1978)
  • TV Channel started by central govt to educate people about cashless payments
                 Digishala (Started on 9th November 2016)
  • Mobile application started by central govt to enable cashless payments
                 BHIM- Bharat Interface for Money
  • Toll free number started for cashless payment help and support
                 14444
  • Picture on new 500 note : Red Fort
  • Picture on new 200 note : Sanchi Stupa
  • Picture on new 50 note   : Humpi and Chariot
  • National planning committee was set up in 
                 1938 (Jawaharlal Nehru was the Chairman, 15 members)
  • Father of Indian Planning and Indian Engineering
                 M Visweshwarayya (His birthday September 15 observed as Engineer's day)
  • Author of the book Planned economy for India
                 M Visweshwarayya
  • Economic plan introduced by leading industrialists in Bombay in 1944
                 Bombay Plan (Malayalee John Mathai was a member)
  • Gandhian plan putforwarded by
                 Narayan Agarwal (Term Gandhian economics was coined by JC Kumarappa)
  • Peoples plan formulated by
                 M N Roy in 1945
  • Sarvodaya plan formulated by
                 Jayaprakash Narayanan in 1950
  • The propounder of Hindu rate of growth
                 Raj Krishna
                                                                             (To be Continued...)

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