Solution-Class 9-History-Chapter-8-Industry and Trade-Maharashtra Board

(b) making available long term loans to industrial projects.

(b) Automobile

(b) Determining the quality standards of cloth

(b) Ludhiana

Wrong pair : Textiles Committee - welfare of weavers.

• The term "internal trade" refers to trade conducted within the nation.
• Rail, river, road, and air transportation are all used to carry out this trade.
• The ports of Mumbai, Kolkata, Cochin, and Chennai are significant for domestic trade.
• The internal commerce includes goods including coal, cotton, cotton textiles, rice, wheat, oil seeds, salt, sugar, raw jute, iron, and steel.

• The cultural heritage of India is vast.
• It has numerous places of religious devotion, pilgrimage sites, river confluences, forts, cave architecture, and tourism attractions.
• Both domestic and international tourists travel to these locations.
• The Tourism Development Council (and the hotel industry) provide the visitors with the necessary amenities.

As a result, the tourism industry has developed in India.

• The GDP and the average income of the population have increased as a result of economic development in general and industrialization in particular.
• Industries provided lots of job opportunities.

As a result, the quality of life and standard of living of the people of India has improved.

In order to promote-encourage agriculture, the following steps are taken by the government :

• Cooperative banks are used to provide loans.
• Cooperative industries that process fruits and vegetables are encouraged. (Example: industries run by sugar cooperatives)
• There are organised study tours, agricultural outdoor visits (trips), and farmer conferences where advice on how to enhance agriculture is given.
• Better equipment, top-notch seeds, and (chemical) fertilisers are provided. Training at the district level is offered in dairy farming, pisciculture, poultry, cattle and goat rearing, and nurseries.
• Laboratories that examine soils provide advice on crops.
• Financial assistance is granted to construct grain-storage buildings (given as farm products).

• Indians and visitors from other countries travel frequently.
• The hotel sector employs people because tourists need places to stay and eat.
• Foodgrains, vegetables, fruits, milk, and a variety of other products are needed by the hotels. People in nearby rural areas might take advantage of the employment opportunities this offers.
• Informational guides are necessary for tourists.
• They need transportation to get where they're going.
• They buy trinkets and crafts made by locals.

In this way, many employment opportunities are generated in the tourism sector.

• Forests provide raw material for industries like paper, newsprint, furniture, matchbox and construction.
• Silk, medicinal herbs, honey and lacquer are forest based industries.
• Raw material required for the paint industry is available in the forest.

• India has had a leather industry for a very long time.
• Skin from dead animals is removed to obtain the raw material for leather, which is then processed.
• Leather was used in the ancient and mediaeval eras to create "Masak" (a water container), musical instruments like the drum and dholak, and the bellow the blacksmith used. Shoes and shields were also made from it.
• Today, leather is used to make travel accessories, shoes, chappals, handbags, and belts.
• India exports leather products to numerous nations.