Uttar Pradesh is known as the "Sugar Bowl of India", Because it is the largest produces of sugar, producing about 50% of the country's total.

National Aluminium Company Limited, abbreviated as NALCO (incorporated in 1981) has units in Odisha at places like Angul and Damanjodi. It was incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Ministry of Mines, Govemment of India in 1981.

1. Being flexible, copper can be made into utensils of any shape.
2. Copper is used to making alloys.
3. Copper is used for making cooking utensils and other objects of common utility.
4. It is used in a vast variety of electrical machinery, wires, and cables.

Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha and Jharkhand.

The main centres of IT parks are located in Chennai, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Gandhi Nagar, Jaipur, Noida, Mohali and Srinagar

(i) Heavy electrical industries manufacture equipment used for power generation, transmission and utilization.
(ii) Turbines for steam and hydro power plants, boilers for thermal power plants, generators, transformers, switch gears etc. are the chief products of this industry.
(iii) The most important company in the field of heavy electrical is Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL). It has its plants at Hardwar, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Jammu, Bengaluru, Hansi and Tiruchirappalli.

The automobile industries are found in four clusters viz: Delhi, Gurgaon and Manesar in North India, Pune, Nasik, Halol and Aurangabad in west India, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hosur in South India and Jamshedpur and kolkata in East India.

Tamil nadu produces about 5% of the total thermal electricity produced in India.
(i) Neyveli
(ii) Mettur
(iii) Thoothukudi and
(iv) Ennore (Chennai) are the important thermal power stations in Tamil nadu.

(i) The Gas Authority of India Ltd [GAIL] is doing pioneer work in the field of natural gas exploration.
(ii) Discovery of gas made rapid strides in the 1985. Oil strikes at Cauvery offshore, at Nanda in Cambay basin and Tarot in Jaisalmer basin in Rajasthan were major discoveries during 1988-89.
(Iii) Recently, it has been found that Krishna- Godavari delta has reserves of Natural gas.

(i) Gypsum is a hydrated sulphate of calcium which occurs as white, opaque or transparent minerals in beds of sedimentary rocks such as limestone, sandstone and shale.
(ii) Gypsum is used in the manufacture of cement, fertilizers, wall board, plaster of paris and in soil conditioning.
(iii) The state of Rajasthan alone accounts for 81% of its reserves. 14% of its reserves is found in Jammu and Kashmir and 2% in Tamil nadu.
(iv) The remaining 3% resources are found in the states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

(i) Andhra Pradesh
(ii) Rajasthan
(iii) Odisha
(iv) Jharkhand

 i) Mica is used in making insulating properties.
 ii) It is used in electrical goods.
 iii) lt is used in making of lubricants, medicines, paints and varnishes.

(i) Bauxite is an important ore from which aluminium is extracted. 
(ii) It is found in the rock consisting mainly of hydrated aluminium oxides 
(iii) Bauxite is widely distributed as surface deposits in the areas of laterite soil.
(iv) Being light in weight and tough, aluminium is used in the manufacture of aircrafts and automobile engines. Bauxite is also used in the manufacture of cement and chemicals.

Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.