Industrial development in India - Let's Crack it

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: 

IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY:

Iron and steel is such a basic industry and its products are also used as raw material in all other industries. It provides some of the base for all sorts of tools, equipment and many of the machinery. 

It us indexed for all the economic growth of a nation. The more steel a nation produces, the more developed it is. Such as comparative study of this industry at the two centers in different countries will help us to understand that its development in so many different regions. 

JAMSHEDPUR IN INDIA: 

Jamshedpur is also located in the state of Jharkhand, at the confluence of many of the Subarnarekha and the Kharkai rivers . 

Earlier it was such a small village named Sakchi. In 1907, Jamshedji Tata also get established the first modern steel plant of the India here and also named it Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO). 

Sakchi was also later renamed Jamshedpur. Today TISCO is the oldest and one of the largest integrated iron and steel plants of India. 

It is one in the private sector. 

It is also started producing pig iron in 1911 and steel in 1912. 

Iron ore is also obtained from the mining areas of the Singhbum in Jharkhand and Mayurbhanj in Odisha which are located 75 to 100 km  from Jamshedpur. 

The supply of the coal also comes out from its own collieries at West Bokaro and Jamboda. Some of the good quality cooking coal comes from Jharia and Raniganj which are about 150 to 200 km away. 

Manganese also comes from the Kendujhar in Odisha. 

Limestone and dolomite are also brought from Sundergarh in Odisha. There are two rivers , Subarnarekha and Kharkai, always supply water which is requires for some of the large quantities. 

Some of the cheap and abundant labor is also provided by the densely populated states of the Bihar, Jharkhand , West Bengal and Odisha. 

Kolkata is also about 240 km away from the Jamshedpur. It is also an important port and that can be easily handle the import and export of goods. 

Jamshedpur is well connected with some of the metropolitan cities like some Kolkata , Mumbai, and Chennai by some of the efficient road and rail networks. 

Also the region behind it is around Kolkata that was an industrially very developed. This also provides a good market for the products of the Jamshedpur steel plants. 

The capital is also required for the investment that would be provided by the Tata as well as by other Indian people. 

TISCO also made some of the rapid progress during the two world wars and Jamshedpur soon became a center for some other allied industries too. A large number of factories that manufacturing locomotive parts such as heavy vehicles, automobiles, machinery, agricultural equipment, chemicals, tin plates , cables , wires, etc have been set up here. 

Many of the technical institutes and metallurgical laboratories have come up. So that the Jamshedpur is a well planned industrial city of India with very good infrastructure. 

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY: 

Cotton textile is also a very important industry as it can be provided one of the basic needs of humans clothing. The use of cotton textiles has been common since it was the ancient civilizations. 

The Industrial Revolution also brought about a phenomenal change in some of the industry— hand woven cloth that have been gave way to machines made clothes. Today cotton textiles can be produced by an employment to a large number of the people all over the world. 

India’s cotton textile industry that has been developed since the ancient times. Very fine fabric was manufactured on the hand-looms by the Indian weavers. 

The Muslim of Dhaka, chintzes of Masulipatnam, and calicoes of Calicut were world famous. 

Two important centers of the cotton textile industry in two different countries- 

AHMADABAD IN INDIA: 

Ahmadabad is also located in the state of Gujarat, on some of the banks of the Sabarmati River. After Mumbai, it is the second most largest cotton textile in center of India and sometimes referred to as the Manchester of India . The first cotton textile mill was established here in 1863. 

The cotton growing areas of Gujarat provides the raw material fir the industry. 

The water also required fir some of the textile plants is easily available from the Sabarmati River. 

Hydroelectricity is available in abundance. Ahmadabad is well connected with some other parts of the country by road and rail. 

Land for setting up of the cotton mills was also available at Ahmadabad at much cheaper rates than at Mumbai. 

Thus Ahmadabad is not only a premier textile center of the country , it is also an important trading center.