3. Manufacturing Industries

Manufacturing is the processing of primary products into more refined and more usable products. Many of the natural products cannot be used directly without processing. It is because of this reason that we manufacture cloth from cotton, sugar from sugarcane, paper from wood pulp etc. By doing so, we make the primary products more valuable and usable. Thus, manufacturing means transformation of natural material endowments into commodities of utility by processing, assembling and repairing.

3.1. Types of Industries 3.2. Location of Industries 3.2.1. Geographical Factors 3.2.2. Non – Geographical Factors 3.3. Major Industries 3.3.1. Iron & Steel Industry 3.3.2. Cotton textile Industry 3.3.3. Sugar Industry 3.3.4. Petrochemical Industries 3.3.5. Machine Tools 3.3.6. Automobile Industry 3.3.7. Electronic Industry 3.3.8. Knowledge based Industries 3.4. Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation (LPG) and Industrial Development in India 3.5. Industrial Regions 1. Mumbai-Pune Industrial Region:Advantages and Factors of Development:2. Hugli Industrial Region:Advantages and Factors of Development 3. Bangalore-Chennai Industrial Region:Advantages and Factors of Development 4. Gujarat Industrial Region:Advantages and Factors of Development 5. Chhotanagpur Region:Advantages and Factors of Development 6. Vishakhapatnam-Guntur Region:Facilities available and Reasons for Development 7. Gurgaon-Delhi-Meerut Region:Facilities Available and Reason for Development 8. Kollam-Tiruvanantapuram Region:Facilities Available and Reasons for Development