CBSE Questions for Class 10 Geography Manufacturing Industries Quiz 6 - MCQExams.com

Usually, cottage industries were groups of rural homes working together to make products, which in this case, were textiles. Cottage industries developed the first form of specialization. Before they existed, the same person would use raw materials and do every step until they had made a completed item, ready to sell.

• Jute which is also called as golden fibre is produced mostly in Bangladesh and in West Bengal in India. Jute in West Bengal is grown along the Hooghly river belt due to its fertile soils.
  
• After independence during partition major hectarage of jute went into Bangla Desh but most of the industries are located on the banks of Hooghly River.
  

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is commonly applied to enhance the white color and brightness of food products. TiO2 is also used as a white pigment in other products such as toothpaste. A small fraction of the pigment is known to be present as nanoparticles.

In India, most of the cotton textile mills are working with old and obsolete machinery. The spindles are more than 30 years old. Obsolete machinery results in low output and poor quality of goods as a result of which Indian textile goods are not able to face competition in the international market. Also, India faces shortage of raw material which has to be imported from Australia, Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt, USA, Peru.

The NMCC was established in 2004 as a part of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the erstwhile government to provide a continuing forum for policy dialogue to energize and sustain the growth of the manufacturing industry.

• The first cement plant was set up in 1904, in Chennai.
  
• First attempt to manufacture cement in an organized way commenced in Madras. South India Industries Limited began the manufacture of Portland cement in 1904. But the effort did not succeed and the company had to halt production.
  
• Finally, it was in 1914 that the first licensed cement manufacturing unit was set up by India Cement Company Ltd at Porbandar, Gujarat with an available capacity of 10,000 tons and production of 1000 installed.
  

Commonly it is called as E. coli bacteria. Its presence indicates that the water is polluted. This bacteria is not very harmful. It causes food poisoning in their hosts. It is expelled out in the environment with the fecal matter. 

Kota fertilizer plant is not in the public sector. Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited is among the largest private-sector fertilizer producers in India. It was promoted by Zuari Industries Limited in the year 1985 at Kota in Rajasthan. But National Fertilizers Ltd, i.e. NFL was promoted by the Government of India in 1974. NFL had set up fuel oil-based urea plants at Panipat and Bhatinda. And Later, the NFL also set up its plant at Nangal. Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd is at Gorakhpur. It is also under the public sector set up. Thus the correct answer is Kota means option C. 

The Air Prevention and Control of Pollution Act, 1981 is a central Act of Parliament, which provides for the prevention and control of air pollution and maintaining the good quality of air.