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arihant current affairs magazine
Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 24 imported from england. subsequently two more mills the shahpur mill and the calico mill were established in ahmedabad. by 1947 the number of mills in india went up to 423 but the scenario changed after partition and this industry suffered a major recession. this was due to the fact that the most of the good quality cotton growing areas had gone to west pakistan and india was left with 409 mills and o...
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Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 25 the cotton textile industry in india can be broadly divided into two sectors the organised sector and the unorganised sector. the decentralised sector includes cloth produced in handlooms including khadi and powerlooms. the production of the organised sector has drastically fallen from 81 per cent in the mid-twentieth century to only about 6 per cent in 2000. at present the powerlooms on the decentra...
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Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 25 at present the trend is to locate the industry at or close to markets as it is the market that decides what kind of cloth is to be produced. also the market for the finished products is extremely variable therefore it becomes important to locate the mills close to the market. after the first mills were set up in mumbai and ahmedabad in the second half of the nineteenth century the cotton textile indu...
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Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 26 after 1921 with the development of the railway network other cotton textile centres expanded rapidly. in southern india mills were set up at coimbatore madurai and bengaluru. in central india nagpur indore solapur and vadodara became cotton textile centres. cotton textile mills were set up at kanpur based on local investment. mills were also set up at kolkata due to its port facilities. the developme...
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Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 27 the rapid development of this industry in tamil nadu is the result of the abundant availability of hydel power for the mills. lower labour costs at centres like ujjain bharuch agra hathras coimbatore and tirunelveli also caused industries to be located away from cotton producing areas. thus the cotton textile industry is located in almost every state in india where one or more of the locational facto...