industries manufacturing & service sectors section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Tamil Nadu has the highest number of women entrepreneurs with 2930 women equalling to 30.36 %.

Answer: (b)

India’s share in world merchandise exports is around 1.7%

India toppled Vietnam to become the second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones globally following China in 2018.

Ref: Economic Survey 2019-20, Vol – I, Chapter 5, Page No. 101 and 115

Answer: (c)

Bengaluru or Bangalore is identified as the hottest outsourcing destination in the world.

Bangalore continues to rule as India’s software hub, with its availability of skilled resources. The pleasant climate of Bangalore has also been a factor in Bangalore’s popularity.

Answer: (a)

Crude oil is the basic raw material upon which all refinery processes are founded. Raw material-oriented industries are those industries that are having their locations stick close to the source of raw material.

“Raw material” denotes materials in minimally processed or unprocessed in states e.g. raw later, crude oil, cotton, coal etc

Sugar Industry: It subsumes the production processing and marketing of sugar.

Light Engineering Industry: It is one of the largest sequents of the overall industrial growth of a nation.

Answer: (b)

Tata Steel is Asia’s first privately owned integrated iron and steel plant. It is the first company outside Japan to get the Deming Application Prize in 2008 for excellence in total quality management.

Tata Steel started a provident fund for its employees as early as in 1920, however, it became a law for all employers under the Provident Fund Act only in 1952.

Answer: (d)

In Maharashtra, the arrival of foreign tourists was maximum according to the data of the Tourism Ministry in 2012.

Maharashtra received the highest number of foreign tourists in the country with nearly 4.8 million tourist arrivals in 2011.

Maharashtra was followed by Tamil Nadu and New Delhi, which welcomed 3.4 million and 2.2 million foreigners respectively in the same period.