Choose the correct statement about traditional large scale industrial regions.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Inferior type high density housing with poor services
Traditional large-scale industrial regions are based on heavy industry, often located near coal-fields. Their industries are known as smokestack industries.
Option (1) Well planned cities/towns — Incorrect. Housing in these regions is crowded and often of an inferior type.
Option (2) Green and well maintained surrounding and environment — Incorrect. The environment is unattractive, with pollution and waste heaps.
Option (3) Everyone having work and no unemployment problem — Incorrect. These regions face unemployment, as factories close because of a worldwide fall in demand.
Option (4) Inferior type high density housing with poor services — Correct. High-density housing, often of inferior type, and poor services are a mark of a traditional industrial region.
Note: This question is taken from the pre-rationalised NCERT book. The latest edition (2026-27) does not have this part. An extract of the pre-rationalised NCERT book is given below for the benefit of students.
Pre-rationalised NCERT: “Traditional Large-Scale Industrial Regions These are based on heavy industry, often located near coal-fields and engaged in metal smelting, heavy engineering, chemical manufacture or textile production. These industries are now known as smokestack industries. Traditional industrial regions can be recognised by: • High proportion of employment in manufacturing industry. High-density housing, often of inferior type, and poor services. Unattractive environment, for example, pollution, waste heaps, and so on. • Problems of unemployment, emigration and derelict land areas caused by closure of factories because of a worldwide fall in demand.” |