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The trend of growth rate in manufacturing over the last two decades has been around ____________ percent per annum.

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  1. 6

  2. 7

  3. 8

  4. 9

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Correct Option: B

Piramal Swasthya is a profitable organisation.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following states has massive deposits of Zinc?

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  1. Orissa

  2. Madhya Pradesh

  3. Gujarat

  4. Rajasthan

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Correct Option: D

Which of the following area primal foundation does not undertake projects ?

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  1. Healthcare

  2. Youth Empowerment

  3. Education

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Piramal foundation is arm of piramal group. The foundation undertakes projects under the four broad area which are health care, educations, livelihood creation and youth empowerment.

Piramal foundation, presently covers 36, districts and aims to cover only 33 districts of Rajasthan ?

civics the concept of development distribution and classification of industries in india mineral resources in rajasthan industrialisation and industrial belts

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B

'Industrialise or Perish' was the motto of ___________.

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  1. Visveswaraiah

  2. Nehru

  3. Gandhiji

  4. Vivekananda

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Industrialise or Perish' was the motto of Visveswaraiah.

He is known for his dictum "Industrialise or perish". Stated by Ramaswamy Mudaliar quoted in The Most Celebrated Indian Engineer:Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.

Which one of the following factors has least influence on the location of industries?

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  1. Availability of raw materials locally

  2. Availability of power resources

  3. Stock market

  4. Transport facilities

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Stock market is one of the factor which has least influence on the location of industries.
Factors Influencing the Location of Industries : Geographical and Non-Geographical Factors! Many important geographical factors involved in the location of individual industries are of relative significance, e.g., availability of raw materials, power resources, water, labour, markets and the transport facilities.

Which of the following is not a geographical factor affecting the location of industry?

geography manufacturing industries in india - i : agro-based location of industries distribution and classification of industries in india industrialisation and industrial belts

  1. Raw material

  2. Labour

  3. Water

  4. Industrial inertia

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Industrial inertia is the factor irrelevant to the location of industries. Industrial inertia (geographical) describes a stage at which an industry prefers to run in its former location although the main alluring factors are gone. For example, the raw material source is depleted or an energy crisis has emerged.

Which of the following is a commercial factor affecting the distribution of industries

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  1. Capital

  2. Labour

  3. Raw material

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Capitals are the Commercials or Non-Geographical Factors which consists of Modem industries which are capital-intensive and require huge investments. Capitalists are available in urban centers. Big cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, and Chennai are big industrial centers, because the big capitalists live in these cities.

Factors affecting the location of industries is classified as which of the following below mentioned factors ______________.

geography manufacturing industries in india - i : agro-based location of industries distribution and classification of industries in india industrialisation and industrial belts

  1. Geographical factors

  2. Non Geographical factors

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by the availability of many factors. Some of them are: raw material, land, water, labor, capital, power, transport, and market. For ease of convenience, we can classify the location factors into two: geographical factors and non-geographical factors.