Manufacturing Industries
This chapter of the NCERT Class 10 Contemporary India II textbook, Chapter 6, explains why manufacturing matters for employment, exports and modernisation. It outlines factors guiding industrial location such as raw materials, power, labour, markets and transport, and surveys major industries including cotton textiles, jute, iron and steel, aluminium, chemicals, fertilisers, automobiles and information technology. It discusses public and private ownership, the role of small scale units, industrial pollution of air, water and land, and measures for control and sustainable growth.
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