Showing posts with label petroleum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petroleum. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Gujarat

01 - rivers : Sabarmati, Mahi, Narmada, Tapti.
02 - formed : May 1, 1960 under Bomaby Reorganisation Act 1960.
03 - Highest producer of Cotton and Groundnut.
04 - Second highest producer of Tobacco.
05 - First Integrated Horticulture District in India : Valsad.
06 - Largest Petro-chemical Complex.
07 - Accounts to 65% of infant Milk.
08 - Produces 60% of India's Salt.
09 - Leading producer of Biogas(28000 plants)
10 - First Expressway of India : Ahmedabad-Baroda
11 - Game Sanctuary of Gir : World's last habitat of Asian Lions
12 - Tourist place : Dwarka, Palitana, Udwada, Akshardham.

Friday, December 29, 2006

Assam

- in 1963 Nagaland was carved out of it.
- Jan 21st 1972 Meghalaya was carved out of it.
- Mizoram was also a part of Asaam earlier.
- Mizoram was a Union Territory untill Jan 21st 1972.
- In 1987 Mizoram was declared a state.
- Highest rain fall 178-305 cm.
- Biggest river Brahmaputra.
- Tourist Place : Kaziranga National Park.
- 15.6% of world's and 50% of India's Tea production.
- First state where Oil was struck.
- It was struck at Digboi
- Assam also produces natural gas.
- Assam is the second place in the world (after Titusville in the United States) where petroleum was discovered.
- Asia’s first successful mechanically drilled oil well was drilled in Makum (Assam) way back in 1867
- World's Largest producer of Golden colored "Muga" silk.