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plants are located near oil refineries or Automobile Industry petrochemical plants. Automobiles provide vehicle for quick The chemical industry is its own largest transport of good services and passengers. consumer.Basicchemicalsundergoprocessing Trucks, buses, cars, motor cycles, scooters, to further produce other chemicals that are three-wheelers and multi-utility vehicles are used for industrial application, agriculture or manufactured in India at various centres. After directly for consumer markets. Make a list of the liberalisation, the coming in of new and the products you are aware of. contemporary models stimulated the demand Fertilizer Industry for vehicles in the market, which led to the healthy growth of the industry including The fertilizer industry is centred around the passenger cars, two and three-wheelers. The production of nitrogenous fertilizers (mainly industry is located around Delhi, Gurugram, urea), phosphatic fertilizers and ammonium phosphate (DAP) and complex fertilizers which Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur and have a combination of nitrogen (N), phosphate Bengaluru. (P), and potash (K). The third, i.e. potash is entirely imported as the country does not have Information Technology and any reserves of commercially usable potash or Electronics Industry potassium compounds in any form. The electronics industry covers a wide range After the Green Revolution the industry of products from transistor sets to television, expanded to several other parts of the country. telephones, cellular telecom, telephone Gujarat,TamilNadu,UttarPradesh,Punjaband exchange, radars, computers and many Kerala contribute towards half of the fertilizer production. Other significant producers are other equipments required by the telecommunication industry. Bengaluru has Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, emergedastheelectroniccapitalofIndia.Other Maharashtra,Assam,WestBengal,Goa,Delhi, important centres for electronic goods are Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Cement Industry Kolkata,LucknowandCoimbatore. Themajor Cement is essential for construction activity industry concentration is at Bengaluru, Noida, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune. A such as building houses, factories, bridges, major impact of this industry has been on roads,airports,damsandforothercommercial employment generation. The continuing establishments. This industry requires bulky and heavy raw materials like limestone, silica growth in the hardware and software is the key to the success of IT industry in India. and gypsum. Coal and electric power are needed apart from rail transportation. Where would it be economically viable to set up the cement manufacturing units? The industry has strategically located plants in Gujarat that have suitable access to the market in the Gulf countries. Findoutwheretheplantsarelocatedinother States of India. Find their names. The first cement plant was set-up in Fig. 6.6: Cable manufacturing facilities at HCL, Rupnarainpur (West Bengal) Chennai in 1904. After Independence the industry expanded. MANUFACTURINGINDUSTRIES 65 Reprint 2026-27