CBSE Questions for Class 8 Geography Industries Quiz 1 - MCQExams.com

Iron and steel industry is called the basic industry due to following reasons:

• All industries whether heavy, medium or light depend on it for the machinery. Thus, it provides base to the other industries.
• Steel is required for manufacturing variety of engineering, construction and defense goods. Various ship building industries, aircrafts, transport equipments etc require steel which is a finished product of the iron and steel industry.
• Day to day consumer goods like containers, safety pins etc. are made up of steel.

Factors Influencing the location of industries are geographical and non-geographical factors. 

Many important geographical factors involved in the location of individual industries are of relative significance, e.g., availability of raw materials, power resources, climatic conditions, water, site locations, labour, markets and the transport facilities.

This belt inculdes the state of Goa and Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. The ores in these mines are not of very high quality. They are exported through Marmagao port. The richest ore deposits are located in North Goa. These areas have the advantage of river transport or ropeways for local transport and that of Marmagao port for exporting the ore. Most of Goa’s iron ore is exported to Japan.

In the second Five Year Plan, the focus was mainly on heavy industries. The Indian government boosted manufacturing of industrial goods in the country. This was done primarily to develop the public sector. As many as five steel plants including the ones in Durgapur, Jamshedpur as well as Bhilai were set up as per the second five year plan.