Geography Quiz: Industries and Location and Transportation | 9 July, 2021

Jaduguda in Singhbhum Thrust Belt (in the state of Jharkhand, formerly part of Bihar) is the first uranium deposit to be discovered in the country in 1951.

• The discovery of uranium at Jaduguda in this belt paved the way for intensive exploration work and soon a few more deposits were brought to light in this area.
• Some of these deposits like Bhatin, Narwapahar and Turamdih are well known uranium mines of the country.

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy

Kolkata is the only riverine major port in India. Known for twin dock systems viz., Kolkata Dock System (KDS) on the eastern bank and Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) on the western bank of river Hooghly.

Vishakhapatnam is India’s deepest landlocked port handling crude oil and petroleum products.

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy

Golden Quadrilateral is a network of highways connecting India’s four top metropolitan cities, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, thereby, forming a quadrilateral.

The largest highway project in India, the Golden Quadrilateral project was launched in 2001 as part of National Highways Development Project (NHDP).

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy

National Highway 65, is a National Highway in India. It runs along the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

It starts at Pune and ends at Machilipatnam. Major cities on this route are Pune, Solapur, Hyderabad, Suryapet, Vijayawada and Machilipatnam.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/national-highways-seeing-hundreds-of-fatalities/article30368542.ece

Source: Maps of India 

The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to set up a major port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra with a total cost of ₹65,545 crore, including about ₹14,500 crore of GST.

This is part of the government’s plan to develop infrastructure projects with a cost of ₹100-lakh crore over the next five years.

Source: The Hindu

India is critically deficient in the reserve and production of copper.

• Being malleable, ductile and a good conductor, copper is mainly used in electrical cables, electronics and chemical industries.
• The Balaghat mines in Madhya Pradesh produce 52 per cent of India’s copper.
• The Singbhum district of Jharkhand is also a leading producer of copper.
• The Khetri mines in Rajasthan are also famous.

Mica is a mineral made up of a series of plates or leaves. It splits easily into thin sheets.

• These sheets can be so thin that a thousand can be layered into a mica sheet of a few centimeters high.
• Mica can be clear, black, green, red yellow or brown. Due to its excellent di-electric strength, low power loss factor, insulating properties and resistance to high voltage, mica is one of the most indispensable minerals used in electric and electronic industries.
• Mica deposits are found in the northern edge of the Chota Nagpur plateau. Koderma Gaya – Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand is the leading producer.

• In Rajasthan, the major mica producing area is around Ajmer. Nellore mica belt of Andhra Pradesh is also an important producer in the country.

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy

By States, Odisha alone accounts for 51% of country’s resources of bauxite followed by Andhra Pradesh (16%), Gujarat (9%), Jharkhand (6%), Maharashtra (5%) and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh (4% each).

Major bauxite resources are concentrated in the East Coast bauxite deposits in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy

Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur belt lies in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

• Very high grade hematites are found in the famous Bailadila range of hills in the Bastar district of Chattisgarh.
• The range of hills comprises of 14 deposits of super high grade hematite iron ore. It has the best physical properties needed for steel making.

• Iron ore from these mines is exported to Japan and South Korea via Vishakhapatnam port.

Source: NCERT – XII India People and Economy