India: resources, agriculture, industry and transport
Industrial location and industrial regions of India
Concepts to cover
- Factors of industrial location: raw material, power, market, labour, transport, capital, policy; agglomeration
- Iron and steel plants and their inputs: Jamshedpur, Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur, Bokaro, Bhadravati, Salem, Visakhapatnam
- Cotton (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore), jute (Hooghly), silk and woollen industries
- Sugar, cement, fertiliser, aluminium (Korba, Renukoot, Hirakud) and petrochemical industries
- Automobile, electronics and information technology hubs
- Major industrial regions of India