Panipat is called the city of weavers because of its
- A.Plywood industry
- B.Handloom durries, carpets and blankets
- C.Brass utensils
- D.Scientific instruments
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, handloom durries, carpets and blankets. Panipat weaves durries, carpets, blankets and furnishing fabrics for the home and export markets, and it is also the largest centre in India for pulling old woollen clothing into fibre and spinning it again into yarn, a trade for which the city is known across the world. The craft grew from the weaving traditions of families that settled there.
Option A, plywood, belongs to Yamunanagar. Option C, brass utensils, belongs to Jagadhri in Yamunanagar district and to Rewari. Option D, scientific instruments, belongs to Ambala and Ambala Cantt. Panipat does carry heavy industry too, with the refinery, the fertiliser plant and a thermal station, but its nickname comes from the looms, and that is what the question tests.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the largest industrial city of Haryana?
- A.Panipat
- B.Faridabad
- C.Hisar
- D.Yamunanagar
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Faridabad has the largest concentration of factories in the state, making tractors, refrigerators, tyres, switchgear, garments and a very wide range of auto components, and it is also the most populous city of Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The oil refinery of Haryana is located at Baholi in which district?
- A.Panipat
- B.Faridabad
- C.Karnal
- D.Rohtak
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The Indian Oil refinery at Baholi in Panipat district was commissioned in the late nineteen nineties and was later expanded with a petrochemical complex; it is supplied with crude through a pipeline from the Gujarat coast and sends its products to north India.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Haryana is known as the plywood capital of India?
- A.Yamunanagar
- B.Ambala
- C.Kurukshetra
- D.Panchkula
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Hundreds of plywood and veneer units work in and around Yamunanagar and Jagadhri, giving the district the largest cluster of this industry in the country.
Read the full explanation →Jagadhri in Haryana is famous for the manufacture of
- A.Brass and metal utensils
- B.Cement
- C.Woollen blankets
- D.Sports goods
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Jagadhri, now part of the Yamunanagar urban area, has an old industry of brass, bronze and other metal utensils, with rolling, beating and polishing done in workshops across the town, and its market supplies vessels to north India.
Read the full explanation →The manufacture of scientific, laboratory and surgical instruments in Haryana is concentrated at
- A.Karnal
- B.Ambala
- C.Rohtak
- D.Sirsa
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Ambala, and Ambala Cantt in particular, has a cluster of workshops making laboratory glassware and apparatus, surgical and dental instruments, weighing and measuring devices and household mixers, and it supplies schools, colleges and hospitals across the country.
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