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Monali answered on
Nov 21 2021
Geographical analysis
(a) Location: India
(b) Topography: India has mountains, rivers, desert, valleys, table lands, seashores and flat te
ains with Northern India at Himalayan Mountain range, Eastern side near Bay of Bengal, Western side su
ounded by Arabian Sea and India ocean on south side. India has total area of 3.3 square kilometre, 7517 coastal line border, sharing with Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka being at southern distance.
(c) Climate: India is very diverse in climatic condition being largely tropical except northern side by Himalayan mountain. Seasonal variation with four seasons of winter, summer, south west monsoon and post monsoon season with Climatic hazard of landslide, earthquake, fire, floods and drought can be seen.
Economic analysis:
(a) Natural resources: India is diverse and plenty of natural resources of coal, Mineral, Gas, Oil, Diamond, Nuclear, few name being Bauxite, Lignite, gold, Chromite, Tin, Zinc, Lead, Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Rock Phosphate, Dolomite, Fire Clay, Limestone, Ochre, Pyrophyllite, Laterite, Molybdenum, Apatite, Asbestos, Ball clay, Calcite, Chalk, Dunnite, Felsite, Felspar, Fluorite, Garnet, Graphite, Gypsum, Jesper, Kaolin, Kyanite, Magnesite, Mica, Perlite, Phosphorite, Pyroxenite, Quartz, Sand, Selenite, Shale, Silica Sand, Sillimanite, Slate, Vermiculite, Wollaston, Ma
le, among others.
(b) Major industries, importers and exporters: Mining, Chemical and Petrochemicals, Cottage, Defence Products, Fertilizer, Food processing, Heavy Industries, Manufacturing, Oil and Natural gas, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Textile and Tourism are major industries. Import and export data by Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of commerce, Government of India, value import 2018-19 at 359,467,461.19 Lac Rs and Export valued at 230,772,619.38 Lac Rs. Items namely being commodity like live Animals, fishery, horticulture, agriculture & its by products, mineral, metals and non-metal substance, heavy industry products, defence items, instruments, goods, projects among other.
(c) Cu
ency type: Indian cu
ency is Indian Rupee (INR) with symbol as ₹
(d) Inflation, consumer prices and interest rates: Inflation in India is measured by two indices, namely Wholesale price index (WPI) at 2.02% (provisional) on June’19 and Commercial Price Index (CPI) at 143.8 in october’19. Policy repo rate being rate at which Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lends in exchange of government securities at 5.15% as on November 8th 2019.
(e) Transportation: India has Railway network crossing entire India with connectivity getting improved by construction of road,
idges, dams, canals, etc. Public transportation in modes of sea & river root, buses, taxi, state transportation, metro, as availability in cities and villages. Few Ports namely Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai Port, Kolkata Port, Vishakhapatnam...