Test: Manufacturing Industries - 2 - UPSC MCQ

Hyderabad is known as the "City of Pearls" on account of its role in the pearl trade. Until the 18th century the city was the only global trading centre for large diamonds.

• The Gujarat Refinery is an oil refinery located at koyali in Gujarat, western india, It is the second largest refinery owned by Indian oil corporation after panipat Refinery. The refinery is currently under projected expansion to 18 MMTPA.

• The Mathura Refinery, owned by Indian Oil Corporation is located in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The Refinery process low sulphur crude from Bombay High imported low sulphur crude from Nigeria and high Sulphur crude from the Middle East.

• The Refinery is in Haldia near Kolkata (west Bengal). The fuel sector was built French Collaboration and the lube sector with Romanian Collaboration. The Refinery Capacity of the Refinery was increased to 2.75 MMTPA in 1989 debottlenecking measures.

• Bongaigaon Refinery is an Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Complex located at Bongaigaon in Assam. It was announced in 1969 and construction began in 1972.

B. Visakhapatnam has a steel plant.

C. Perambur has an integral Coach factory.

D. Renukoot has an Aluminium plant.

• Aluminium : Alwaye (Kerala), Asansol (West Bengal), Renukoot (U.P.), Belur (Karnataka), Hirakud (Orissa).

• Petrochemical : Indian Refineries Ltd (Barauni) Bihar, Noohamati (Assam), Koyali oil Refinery, Koyali (Gujrat), Cochin oil Refinery Kochi (Kerala).

• Cotton Textiles : Ahmedabad (Gujarat) Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Coimbatore (Tamilnadu), Kanpur (UP), Ludhiana and Amritsar (Punjab), Indore (MP).

• Heavy Electricals : Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd Ranipur Haridwar (Uttrakhand), Jagdishpur (U.P.), Heavy Electricals India Ltd (Bhopal)

• Durgapur Steel Plant is located in Durgapur (West Bengal).

• It was Set up in the late 1950s with assistance from the United Kingdom.

• It is one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited.

• Gujarat is blessed with the longest coastline of 1600 km. Summers (March through May) are quite hot, however, with temperatures typically rising well above 100 °F (38 °C) during the day and dropping only into the 90s F (low 30s C) at night, Gujarat is drier in the north than in the south.

• Rainfall is lowest in the northwestern part of the state-in the Rann of Katch. The coastline of Gujarat includes two, gulf areas Gulf of Kutch and Gulf of Khambhat.