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offices in the Silicon Valley are Google, Hewlett- revolutionised the set-up of the world. The world
Packard, Apple, Intel, Yahoo, Oracle, Microsoft, can truly be said to be a global village.
Adobe etc.
Silicon Valley continues to maintain its status as
one of the top research and development centre of
Info Bits
Info Bits the world, and as a high technology giant.

The first digital electronic computer was developed
Info Bits
in the USA in 1946. It was used for military Info Bits
purposes. In the 1970s, and 1980s emerged micro Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, better known
electronics, a sub industry of electronics industry. as NR Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist
This led to the development of information and software engineer. He founded Infosys in 1981
technology. This industry has become global. It has
along with six software professional.

v Industry is an economic activity that converts natural resources into consumer goods.

v Industry may be classified into several different categories on the basis of size (heavy or large-scale and
light or small-scale), raw material (agro-based, mineral-based) and ownership (private, public, joint, or
cooperative).
v Agro-based industries derive their raw material from agriculture and mineral-based industries from
minerals.
v Location of industry is affected by availability of raw material, land, water, labour, capital, transport, market
etc.
v Iron and steel industry is a basic industry which leads to industrial diversification.

v The industrial regions of India are Mumbai-Pune cluster, Bengaluru-Tamil Nadu region, Ahmedabad-
Vadodara region, Chota Nagpur industrial belt, Vishakhapatnam-Guntur belt, Gurugram-Delhi-Meerut
region and Kallam-Thiruvanathapuram industrial cluster.

v In India, the development of organised industries was started in 1854 in Mumbai with cotton textile
industry.

v Ahmedabad is called the Manchester of India.
v Silicon Valley in California and Bengaluru in India are major hubs of IT industry.

A. Tick (3) the right option :

1. __________ industry is an agro-based industry.
(a) iron and steel (b) sugar (c) chemical
2. __________ sector involves manufacturing.

(a) primary (b) secondary (c) tertiary
3. Industries whose investment is up to __________ come under the category of small-scale industries.
(a) one crore rupees (b) two crore rupees (c) ten crore rupees
Manufacturing Industries
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