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Industrial Development in India

India is emerging as a large industrial power. We are competing with the most
industrialised nations of the world. We are already the sixth largest economic power.
Many of Indian products are popular all over the world, such as electronic goods,
textiles, handicrafts etc.
Some of the important industries in India are as follows :

Iron and Automobile Textile Sugar Fertilizers
Steel Industry Industry Industry Industry
Industry

Products iron, steel scooter, bus, cotton, silk sugar fertilizers
car, truck and woollen
etc. clothes

Important Jharkhand, Haryana, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,
producing Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan,
states Odisha, Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu,
Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Gujarat,
Karnataka, etc. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar
Andhra Himachal Andhra Pradesh,
Pradesh, Pradesh, Pradesh, Kerala,
West Bengal Kashmir, Karnataka Jharkhand
etc. Haryana, etc. etc.
Punjab,
Uttar Pradesh
etc.

In addition to the above, there are many other industries in our country, such as paper
industry, cement industry, tool and machine industry, leather industry, glass industry,
pharmaceuticals industry, railway yards, shipyards and more.

agro-based : based on agricultural products.
raw material : a basic material needed to make a product.
capital : an amount of money invested in an industry or business.

workforce : all people who work for an industry or organisation.

Facts

• The nature meets our needs through plants and minerals.
• We need to process natural products to produce the required product.

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