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...)