Question for Assertion & Reason Type Questions: Manufacturing Industries
Try yourself: Match the followings item given in Column A with those in Column B:
Explanation
(i) Agro based industry: The cotton textile industry is known as an agro based industry because it uses raw materials produced by the agricultural sector.
(ii) Private sector industry: Tata Steel was established in India as Asia's first integrated private steel company in 1907. With this, we also developed India's first industrial city at Jamshedpur. Today, we are among the leading global steel companies.
(iii) Joint Sector Industry: Oil India limited is jointly owned by the public and private sector, hence it is a joint sector industry.
(iv) Cooperative sector industry: The Amul Model of dairy development is a three-tiered structure with the dairy cooperative societies at the village level federated under a milk union at the district level and a federation of member unions at the state level.
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Question for Assertion & Reason Type Questions: Manufacturing Industries
Try yourself:Match the followings item given in Column A with those in Column B:
Explanation
(i) Information Technology and Electronics Industry: Bangalore has emerged as the electronic capital of India. Others are Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Coimbatore.
(ii) Cement Industry: India entered into the Cement Era in 1914, when the Indian Cement Company Ltd. started manufacturing Cement in Porbandar in Gujarat.
(iii) Automobile Industry: For three decades, more than half the vehicles – two-wheelers as well as cars sold in the country have come from five factories in the industrial belt of Gurgaon and Manesar in Haryana.
(iv) Fertilizers Industry: Chambal Fertilisers is a large fertiliser manufacturing company based at Kota in Rajasthan in India.
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Q3:
Question for Assertion & Reason Type Questions: Manufacturing Industries
Try yourself: Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
How to make a garment?
(i) Weaving or knitting of fabric
(ii) Manufacturing of garment (stitching)
(iii) Spinning of yarn
(iv) Dyeing and finishing of garment
Explanation
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two definite sets of braids together at right angles form a fabric or cloth. The process of making yarn from fibre e is called spinning. This brings the fibres together to form a yarn. The two main processes are weaving and knitting.
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Try yourself: How to manufacture Steel?
(i) Pig iron
(ii) Blast furnace
(iii) Shaping metal
(iv) Steel making
Explanation
Steel is made primarily in a two-step process. In the primary steelmaking step, liquid iron is converted into steel by the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) process, or by melting scrap steel or direct reduced iron (DRI) in an electric arc furnace.
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Try yourself: Shaping of Steel
(i) Forging
(ii) Pressing
(iii) Casting
(iv) Rolling
Explanation
Create curves in the steel by using a hammer and form or a mechanical roller machine if you have one. A roller machine clamps the metal between a hard metal form, usually a humped shape, and a heavy duty roller. Rolling the sheet back and forth by hand curves and thins the metal as you guide it into the shape you want.
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Question for Assertion & Reason Type Questions: Manufacturing Industries
Try yourself: Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options:
It not only results in irritation and anger. It can also cause hearing impairment, increased heart rate and blood pressure among other physiological effect. Unwanted sound is an irritant and a source of stress. Industrial and construction activities, machinery, factory equipment, generators, saws and pneumatic and electric drills also make a lot of noise.
Explanation
Noise pollution, also known as environmental noise or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of them harmful to a degree. The source of outdoor noise worldwide is mainly caused by machines, transport, and propagation systems.
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Q7:
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These plants are smaller, have electric furnaces, use steel scrap and sponge iron. They have rerollers that use steel ingots as well. They produce mild and alloy steel of given specifications.
Explanation
Mini steel plants are smaller, have electric furnaces and use steel scrap as well as sponge iron. They have re-rollers that use steel ingots as well. They produce Carbon steel and Alloy Steel of certain specifications. There are around 650 mini steel plants in India.
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In the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A) : The handspun Khadi provides large scale employment to weavers in their homes as a cottage industryReason (R) : Mahatma Gandhi lay emphasis on spinning yarn and weaving khadi.
Explanation
Mahatma Gandhi believed in the ideology of Swadeshi i.e., to use everything that is made in India. Gandhi and other leaders in order to promote swadeshi goods encouraged the people to spin yarn and weave Khadi. This hit the British textile industries hard and provided work to many Indian artisans and weavers.
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In the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A) : India is the largest producer of raw jute and jute goods and stands at second place as an exporter after Bangladesh.Reason (R) : Other problems are the law output of labour and stiff competition with the synthetic fibre industry.
Explanation
India is the largest producer of raw jute and jute goods and the second largest exporter after Bangladesh. There were about 80 jute mills in India ,most of which are located in West Bengal, mainly along the banks of the Hooghly River, in a narrow belt (98 km long and 3 km wide).
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Q10:
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Try yourself: Find the incorrect option:
Explanation
Agriculture and industry are not exclusive of each other. They move hand in hand. The agro-based industries depend on agriculture for raw materials and sell their products such as fertilisers, insecticides, irrigation pumps, PVC pipes, machines and tools, etc to the farmers.
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Try yourself: Direction: In the Following Questions, A Statement Of Assertion Is Followed By A Statement Of Reason. Mark The Correct Choice As:
Assertion : Consumer industries produces goods for direct use by consumers.Reason : Consumer industries are Agro based.
Explanation
Consumer industries that produce goods for direct use by consumers like sugar, toothpaste, paper, sewing machines, fans are Agro-based. The reason does not explain the Assertion
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Assertion : The economic strength of the country is measured by the development of manufacturing industries.Reason : India’s prosperity lies in diversifying its manufacturing industries,
Explanation
Industries creates a variety of good and thus reduce the dependence of the people on agriculture. Exports of manufactured goods add value to the economy.
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Assertion : Harvesting of rainwater reduces Industrial pollution of fresh water.Reason : Rainwater helps industry to meet water requirements.
Explanation
Every litre of waste water discharged by our industry pollutes eight times the quantity of Freshwater, harvesting of rainwater replenishes the water table and thus helps industry to meet its water requirements.
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Assertion : Most of the Jute mills of India located in West Bengal.Reason : Bus facility is available to export the manufactured goods.
Explanation
Most of the jute mills of India are concentrated in the Hooghly basin in West Bengal. It is a narrow belt 98 km long and 3 km wide along the Hooghly river.
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Assertion : Chemical industries are lagging behind in India.Reason : Only small scale industries are present and growth of this industry is very less comparatively.
Explanation
Chemical industries in India are fast growing and diversifying .There is a rapid growth in the manufacture of organic and inorganic chemicals.
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Assertion : Air pollution is caused by the presence of high proportion of undesirable gases.Reason : Air pollution does not affect human health, animals, plants, buildings and the atmosphere as a whole.
Explanation
Air pollution is caused by the presence of high proportion of undesirable gases, such as sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Airborne particulate materials contain both solid and liquid particles like dust, sprays mist and smoke and adversely affect human health, plants & animals.
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Assertion : Aluminum is a universally accepted metal for a large number of industriesReason : Aluminum is flexible and a good conductor of heat and electricity.
Explanation
In India, Aluminum smelting is the second largest industry. It is flexible, good conductor of heat and electricity and hence is a universally accepted metal for a large number of industries. It is widely used as a substitute of copper, zinc, lead and steel.
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Assertion : Textile industry occupies a unique position in Indian economy.Reason : it contributes significantly to industrial production employment generation directly.
Explanation
It is the only industry in the country, which is self reliant and complete in the value Chain, from raw material to the highest value added products. The reason justifies the assertion.
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Assertion : Industries gives boost to the agricultural sector.Reason : Competitiveness of manufacturing industry has helped in increasing their production and also made production process efficient.
Explanation
The agro-industries have given a major boost to agriculture by raising its productivity. It provides irrigation pumps, fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, plastic and PYC pipes, machines and tools, etc. to the farmers. The farmers can produce more and more. Industries help in transporting the goods produced.
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Assertion : Industrial development cannot minimize environmental degradation.Reason : Environmental degradation depends on the raw material used.
Explanation
Proper fuel selection and utilization, smoke can be prevented by the use of oil instead of coal in industries and equipment’s to control emissions can minimize environmental degradation.
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