- Agro - based Industries : Textile, Tobacco, leather, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Natural Rubber
- Mineral - based Industries : Iron-Steel, oil -refinery, Cement, Fertilisers, Petro-Chemicals
- Forest-based Industries : Paper, Gum, Match, Plywood, Honey
- The first Cotton Mill : Near Kolkata (1818)
- The real beginning of Cotton Mill : Mumbai (1854) - The Bombay Spinning Mill
- The largest Producer of Jute products in the world : India
- It has large number of Post offices in the world : India
- Holds monopoly in silk production : Karnataka
- The first Cement Factory : at Chennai in 1904
- It has the largest number of Sugar Factories in India : Maharashtra (195)
- The biggest Oil Refinery in India : Mathura
- Oil refineries in India : 18 (17 are in public sector, Assom Oil company is in private sector)
IRON and STEEL Industries :
- Tata Iron and Steel company : 1907 at Jamshedpur
- The Indian Iron and Steel Company : 1918 in West Bengal
- The Visveswarayya Iron and Steel Ltd : 1923 at Bhadravati
- The Rourkela steel plant : 1959 in Orissa (Germany)
- The Bhilai Steel Plant : 1959 in Madhya Pradesh (Soviet Union)
- The Durgapur Steel Plant : 1959 in West Bengal (Britain or England)
- The Bokaro Steel Plant : 1964 in Bihar (Soviet Union)
SHIPYARDS :
- Hindustan Shipyard : Visakhapatnam
- Garden Reach Shipyard : Kolkata
- Mazagaon Dockyard : Mumbai
- Cochin Shipyard : Cochin
Industries - Classification :
- Agro Based Industries :
- Sugar Industry : Uttar Pradesh
- Textile Industry :
- Cotton Textile : Maharashtra, Gujarat
- Jute Textiles : West Bengal
- Woolen Textiles : Dhariwal, Amritsar
- Silk Textiles : Karnataka
- Synthetic Textiles : Mumbai, Delhi
- Mineral Based Industries :
- Iron and Steel :
- Tisko : Jumshedpur (1907)
- Bhilai : Chattisgarh (1959 Soviet Union)
- Durgapur : West Bengal (1959 - England)
- Bokaro : Jharkhand (1964 - Soviet Union)
- Visakhapatnam (Public Sector)
- Cement Industry :
- First Cement Factory : Chennai (1904)
- Ship Building Industry :
- Hindustan Shipyard (Visakhapatnam)
- Garden Reach (Kolkata)
- Cochi Shipyard (Cochin)
- Mazagaon Dock (Mumbai)
- Oil Refining Industry :
- Jamnagar (Biggest Oil Refinery)
- Mathura
- Digboi
- Trombay
- Visakhapatnam
- Nunmati
- Barauni
- Koyali
- Chennai
- Cochin
- Haldia
- Bongaigaon
- Forest - Based industries :
- Paper Industry : West Bengal
- Match Industry
- Timber Industry
- Lac Industry
- Sports Goods Industry
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