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Unit 2 Ch 6 : Manufacturing Industries — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10Social StudiesUnit 2 Ch 6 : Manufacturing Industries4 Marks
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Read the text given below and answer the following questions.
Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by availability of raw material, labour, capital, power and market, etc. It is rarely possible to find all these factors available at one place. Consequently, manufacturing activity tends to locate at the most appropriate place where all the factors of industrial location are either available or can be arranged at lower cost. After an industrial activity starts, urbanisation follows. Sometimes, industries are located in or near the cities. Thus, industrialisation and urbanisation go hand in hand. Cities provide markets and also provide services such as banking, insurance, transport, consultants and financial advice, etc. to the industry. Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as agglomeration economies. Gradually, a large industrial agglomeration takes place. In the pre-Independence period, most manufacturing units were located in places from the point of view of overseas trade such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, etc. Consequently, there emerged certain pockets of industrially developed urban centres surrounded by a huge agricultural rural hinterland.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
  1. What do you understand by agglomeration economies?
  1. Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as agglomeration economies.
  2. Making of a cooperatives.
  3. Small and cottage industries.
  4. Setting up of industries by an individual.
  1. Which facilities are provided by the cities?
  1. Banking.
  2. Insurance.
  3. Transport.
  4. All of these.
  1. Name the places where most of the manufacturing units were located from the point of view of overseas trade.
  1. Kanpur and Gorakhpur.
  2. Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
  3. Trivandrum.
  4. Kochi.
  1. Which factors influence the setting up of industrial locations?
  1. Infrastructure.
  2. Technological Park.
  3. Shopping complexes and malls.
  4. Availability of raw material, labour, capital, power and market, etc.
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Answer

(i)
(a)
Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as agglomeration economies.
(ii)
(d)
All of these.
(iii)
(b)
Kochi.
(iv)
(d)
Availability of raw material, labour, capital, power and market, etc.

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