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*First - chemical fertilizer plant of India in public sector
Ans : Sindri (Jharkhand) 1951
*The maximum number of fertilizer plants are in the state of Gujarat
*Punjab uses maximum amount of nitrogenous fertilizers in India.
*Father of Indian Chemical Industry
Ans : P.C.Ray
*India is the second largest producer of cement in the world after china
*Manufacturing of cement first started in Chennai (1904)
*Largest producers of cement in India are Madhyapradesh and Chhattisgarh
*The states which has the largest number of cement plants
Ans : Andhrapradesh, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Gujarat, Madhyapradesh
*Leather Industry is divided into two parts - tanning and leather goods
*Three largest leather tanning centres are -
Ans : Chennai, Kolkata and Kanpur
*India’s first leather tanning centre
Ans : Kanpur
*Central leather research Institute
Ans : Chennai
*The main raw material used in Glass Industry
Ans : Silica
*Largest producer of glass in India
Ans : Firozabad (Agra)
*Leading producer of glass are
Ans : Uttarpradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra
Special Economic Zone
*The special economic zone policy was first announced in India on April 2000 as a part of the export
Ans : Import (EXIM) policy of India
*India passed special Economic Zone Act in
Ans : 2005.
*The SEZ Act 2005, came into effect on
Ans : 10th February 2006
*India’s first SEZ free trade Zone
Ans : Kandla (Gujarat)
*Asia’s first Export Processing Zone (EPZ)
Ans : Kandla (1965)
Demonetisation of 500 & 1000 currency notes
*The union Government announced demonetisation of 500 and 1000 banknotes on 8th November 2016.
*Demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 banknotes came into force on 9thNovember 2016
*The main aim of demonetisation is to prevent the growth of terrorism funded by black money.
*Presently largest circulating currency in India is 2000.
*The RBI Governor who signed on new 500 & 2000 rupee notes
Ans : Urjit Patel
*The mobile application launched by government to enable fast, secure, cashless payments
Ans : BHIM (Bharat interface for money)
*Digishala is a T.V. Channel launched by Central Government on 9th December 2016 to educate people about the cashless transactions.
*The toll free number launched for digital payment help and support 14444.
*Picture imprinted on new 2000 rupee note - Mangalyan
*Picture imprinted on new 500 rupee note - Red Fort
*The national level scheme which is mentioned in the new 500, 2000 rupees currency notes
Ans : Swachh Bharat Abhiyan First cashless village in South India Ibrahimpur (Telengana) (Akodara in Gujarat is India’s first cashless village)
*In India demonetisation has happened three times. The first instance was in 1946 and the second in 1978 and the last in 2016.
