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*India’s largest wind power producer
Ans : Tamil Nadu
*The largest wind energy farm in India
Ans : Muppandal Perungudi
*The energy Produced from hotsprings of the earth
Ans : Geo thermal energy .
*Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh is the first commissioned Geothermal plant in India.
*India’s (world’s) first solar airport
Ans : Kochi International airport
*World’s largest solar power plant is situated at
Ans : Tamil Nadu
INDUSRIES
Cotton- textile industry
*The oldest industry in India
Ans : Cotton- textile industry
*The largest producer of cotton in India
Ans : Gujarat
*The modem textile industry of India Fort
Ans : Gloster near Kolkata in 1818
*Kanpur is famous for textiles and clothing, large modern tanneries, leather works and shoe manufacturing
*The port export maximum amount of cotton , from India
Ans : Mumbai port
*The port exports large quantities of textile garments
Ans : Kandla port
*Indian state which has the largest number of cotton mills
Ans : Maharashtra
Jute industry
*Jute is also known as
Ans : Golden fibre
*The first jute industry in India
Ans : Rishra in West Bengal
*The largest producer of Jute in India
Ans : West Bengal
*The Indian port export large amount of jute
Ans : Kolkata
*Largest Jute producing and exporting country in the world
Ans : Bangladesh (2nd place - India)
Wool Industry
*The largest producer of wool in India
Ans : Punjab
Silk Industry
*The largest producer of silk in India
Ans : Karnataka
*The largest producer of muga silk in India
Ans : Assam
*First modem silk factory
Ans : Howrah (1832)
*India is the second largest producer of silk after china
*India is the only country producing all the four known commercial varieties of silk (mulberry, Tasar, Eri and Muga)
Sugar Industry
*The second largest agro-based industry after cotton textile - Sugar Industry
*UP is the largest producer of sugar in India.
*Uttar Pradesh is called as Sugar bowl of India
Paper Industry
*The largest producer of paper in India
Ans : Maharashtra
*The State with maximum number of paper mills
Ans : Uttar Pradesh
*The first Modem Papermill in India
Ans : Serampur (West bangal, 1832)
*India's largest papermill
Ans : Bellarpur in Maharashtra
*National news print & paper mills is situated at
Ans : Nepanagar (Madhya pradesh)
*Photopaper and films are manufactured at
Ans : Udyogamandal (Tamil Nadu)
*The first newsprint mill was started at Nepanagar in Madhya Pradesh.
Iron & Steel Industry
*The largest steel plant in India
Ans : Bokaro
*The first Iron and Steel industry of India started at
Ans : Porto Novo (1830)
Iron & Steel Plants in India
*TISCO-Jharkhand
*Bokaro-Jharkhand
*IISCO-West Bengal
*Visewsarayya -Karnataka
*Vijaya Nagar-Karnataka
*Bhilai-Chattisgarh
*Tata Steel Plant-Kalinga nagar (Odisha)
*Dhitri Steel Plant-Paradwip (Odisha)
*Rurkela-Odisha
*Durgapur -West Bengal
*Saelam Steel Plant -Tamil Nadu
*Visakhapattanam Steel Plant -Andhra Pradesh
*Dolvi Steel Plant -Ratnagiri
