⚡Chapter 6 Manufacturing Industries

Important Questions⚡
1. Why is it important for our country to keep the mill sector
loomage lower than power loom and handloom?
2. Why is it important for us to improve our weaving sector
instead of exporting yarn in large quantities?
3. Why is the per capita consumption of steel so low in India?
4. Where would it be economically viable to set up the cement
manufacturing units?
5. Which one of the following industries uses limestone as a
raw material?
(a) Aluminium (b) Cement (c) Plastic (d) Automobile
6. Which one of the following industries uses bauxite as a raw
material?
(a) Aluminium Smelting (b) Cement (c) Paper (d) Steel
7. What is manufacturing?
8.What are the basic industries? Give an example.
9. How are integrated steel plants different from mini steel
plants? What problems does the industry face?
10. Discuss the steps to be taken to minimise environmental
degradation by industry?
11. Name the important raw materials used in the
manufacturing of cement?
12. Give reasons on why the cotton textile industry
concentrated in the cotton-growing belt of Maharashtra and
Gujarat in the early years?

13. Mention any two problems faced by the iron and

steel industry in India.
14. Define mini steel plants and explain any two features of it.

15. Give three reasons why the iron and steel industry are called the basic industry?

16. Why are thermal power stations positioned near the coalfields?

17. Give reasons why agro-based industries are important.

18.Why is the jute industry mainly concentrated in West Bengal?

19. What are the major problems faced by the cotton textile mills in India?

20. How do industries pollute the air?

21. “The economic strength of the country is measured by the development of

manufacturing industries”. Support the statement with arguments.

22. Why are sugar mills concentrated in sugarcane producing areas? Explain any three
problems faced by sugar industry in India.

23. Describe three major problems faced by the weaving and processing sectors in cotton
textile industry.