CBSE Questions for Class 10 Geography Manufacturing Industries Quiz 2 - MCQExams.com

The first jute mill was set up at Rishra near Kolkata in 1859. 

Factors responsible for the location of jute mills in the Hooghly basin include proximity of the jute producing areas, inexpensive water transport supported by a good network of railways and roadways to facilitate movement of raw material to the mills, abundant water for processing raw jute, cheap labour from West Bengal and adjoining states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. 

First modern textile mill was established in 1854 in Mumbai. Next it was established in Ahmadabad in 1859. Later Kanpur and Madras cotton textile mills were established. 

The first Indian cotton mill ‘The Bombay Spinning Mill’ was opened in 1854 in Bombay by Cowasji Nanabhai Davar. In the year 1854, the first cotton textile mill of Mumbai was established by a Parsi cotton merchant.

The first iron and steel plant was established in 1907. It was a momentous day in the history of industrial India in Jamshedpur.

• Operation Flood was a project of India's National Dairy Development Board, which was the world's biggest dairy development program and was launched in 1970.
  
• The White Revolution in India, also known as Operation Flood, was a plan of three phases by the National Dairy Development Board to revitalize India's dairy production until India became self-sufficient in milk. The program was so successful that by 1998, India was the world's largest milk producer.
  

1. Mining activity is the main cause of environmental degradation.
2. Both legal and illegal mining activities has resulted in soil contamination, groundwater contamination, surface water contamination and loss of bio-diversity.
3. It also led to destruction of habitat and soil erosion.

India has achieved much in the last two decades. According to World Economic Forum reports, while growth averaged 4.4 percent a year during the decades 70s and 80s. Further, it accelerated to 5.5 percent during 90s and early 2000s. During las two decades it is around 7.1 percent. This growth is for aggregate GDP and also for per capita GDP. Thus option B is correct.

• Smelting is an extractive metallurgy. It is the process by which a metal is extracted from its basic ore or a rock.
  
• Smelting makes use of heat and chemical reducing agents to decompose the ore.
  
• Common reducing agents used is a carbon source like coke or charcoal.
  

The chemical industry refers to the company producing industrial chemicals. Such industry converts various raw materials to different products. It uses raw materials like air, water, minerals, etc. Chemical industries of India are located in many places such as in Mumbai, Nagpur, Ajmer, Srinagar, Guwahati, Raipur, etc. But no such industry is majorly available at Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.

Thus the correct option is A.