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Subcontinental India
Secondary Economic Activities
Question | Answer |
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Raw Materials | India has a rich supply of natural resources. Kolkata is the main location of iron and steel manufacturing, as it is close to the largest sources of coal and iron ore in India. |
India contains one of the largest iron and steel companies in the world, the Tato steel and iron company, which in is Bihar. | |
India is the tenth largest steel producer in the world and the lowest consumer of steel per capita. | |
Locally extracted coal is used to generate 60% of the regions electricity and the rest is powered by HEP. | |
India also has large reserves of minerals such as bauxite and copper. | |
Government Intervention | Due to the expansion of the manufcaturing sector into ICT technologies, many companies locate in the region eg. IBM Texas Instruments and Microsoft |
30 British Companies eg Aviva have outsourced teleservice in India | |
The IT sector contributes to 5.8% of India's GPD | |
The government introduced a policy of industrialisation in Bangalore. They established software parks improved infrastructure and special economic zones that offer tax breaks |