- Prologue
- G9/P1: Indian Geography: Mines, Minerals and Coal
- G9/P2: Indian Geography: Petroleum & Gas Reserves & Pipelines
- G9/P3: Nuclear Energy in India: Uranium, Thorium, Plants & Liabilities
- G9/P4: Indian Geography: Steel & Cement Industries
Prologue
- These geography lectures are conducted by Ms. Rajtanil at Sardar Patel institute of Public Administration (SPIPA), Ahmedabad.
- On 4th April, continuation of the Indian geography segment with Mines and Industrial topics. Total ~2:30 hours but I’ve split it into three parts.
- PowerPoint of the lecture, available at Mrunal.org/Download
- Medium of instruction- Hindi.
- English version not possible for the moment, because faculties are required to teach at this batch, in Hindi/Gujarati only. Besides, same content is available in English in the powerpoints.
G9/P1: Indian Geography: Mines, Minerals and Coal
- Mines, Minerals and physiography of India
- Metallic- non-metallic minerals
- Energy resources
- Shield regions – chhota nagpur plateau and Dharwad plateau – metallic, non-metallic minerals source
- Rift valley regions- Damodar and Mahanadi valley – coal reserve
- Marine transgression regions – petroleum reserve
- 5 mineral rich regions of India: Northern belt, Central belt, South east belt, South west belt, North west belt,
- Meaning of pyala lakes
- Mineral reserves in India: Iron ore, copper, bauxite, Mica, Limestone, Chromite.
- Energy Reserves in India: Coal.
- Types of Coal and their properties: Bituminous, Lignite, Anthracite and peat coal reserve in India
- Problems of Indian coal
- Under-ground coal gasification: features and benefits.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/nIjjh7sJjUA
G9/P2: Indian Geography: Petroleum & Gas Reserves
- Petroleum reserves and Sedimentary basin in India
- New petroleum exploration
- Petroleum refining industries: PSU, private, Joint venture.
- Natural gas reserve in India and LNG terminals
- Basin centered gas
- Benefits of Basin centered gas
- Pipelines: domestic and international.
- TAPI, IPI pipeline: routes, benefits, challanges
- Deep sea pipeline: Iran-India
- Russia-India pipeline
- Energy security in India- domestic & global challenges
- ONGC videsh: procurement
- Kelkar panel on energy security
- Strategic reserve of crude oil
- UPSC Prelims questions from this topic.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/nxO-gIKruOE
G9/P3: Nuclear Energy in India
- Thorium, Uranium reserves in India
- Composition of natural uranium, Uranium processing
- Nuclear energy mechanism: Fission and fusion process
- Comparison: heavy water reactor and light water reactor
- Moderator in nuclear reactor
- Comparison: Light water and heavy water
- Issue with energy generation from Thorium
- India’s 3 stage nuclear plan by Homi Bhabha
- Pressurised Heavy water reactors of India
- Working of Pressurised Heavy water reactor
- Nuclear energy generation: Zirconium
- Uranium pallets and fuel assembly
- Sources of Zirconium
- Nuclear energy generation: helium
- Mechanism of moderator and control rod
- Re-processing of fuel
- Prototype-fast breeder reactor
- Thorium reactors
- Indian reactors and IAEA
- Kudankulam reactor
- India’s nuclear agreement with other countries
- Nuclear plant with foreign assistance
- Core raw material for nuclear energy generation
- Problems associated with nuclear-energy
- Nuclear liability law: arguments in favour and against, recent breakthroughs.
- Past UPSC questions from this topic.
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/UCeRZZVf9yk
G9/P4: Indian Geography: Steel & Cement Industries
- History of steel industries in India
- Location factors for steel industries: Raw material based, Port based, Market based steel plants.
- Major steel industries in India, their plants and resources
- Vishakhapatnam steel plant
- Mini steel plants
- Status of steel industries in India
- National steel policy 2005
- Indian steel industry: challenges and potential
- Indian cement industries- raw material and location factors.
- New opportunities for cement industries
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/ahMVbMDHr3I
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GEO_L23 ppt ??? missing
Thanks sir and madam mam can u write the article on geography
thank you mam
thank you mam
thanks you for sharing material but can we also get pdf notes of above material.
thanks in advance
thank you mam for ur outstanding work……
regards
subhash
thank you mam
India is 2nd largest producer of cement after china
india is 4th position in crude steel producer
1st china
2nd japan
3rd USA
4th INDIA
India is 4th largest Iron reserve
Hi Purna, India recently overhauled USA in terms of steel producing country and got 3rd place after china and japan……..
very useful article
Thank you so much for this lectures…:)
thank u very muchhh
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great word ….. god give you special credit for selfless service..
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Madam its Krishna godavari basin.. And not kaveri godavari. :D
In response to:
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Mam Koderma(largest producer of Mica) is in Jharkhand.
+1
Right, Kodarama is place in Jharkhand State
What is your Message? Search before asking questions & confine discussions to exams related matter only.ya u are right. koderma is in jharkhand not in odisha
outstanding…thank u!!!!
economy ke lecture khatam ho gaye kya sir? 2 weeks apne upload nahi kiye.
sir plz provide the powerpoint presentation for all the geography lectures
thank u sir and mam very much
plz suggest any book on environment and ecology ,as so many questions come from this topic.
Sir can u pls put those lectures in English … It’ll be very helpful … Pls sir
mrunal informations very useful and improving knowledge regarding unknown& curious information about all subjets thank u verymuch for mrunal group i have one more help regarding my subjct of sociology now iam preparing lecturer exam for degree college so please give me some important information in sociology for compitative purpous . iam waiating for your responce .
Tummalapalle is in kadapa
Strategic reserve of crude oil.
2004 – Mangaluru and Padur in West Coast and Vishakhapatnam in East Coast.
Major Iron and Steel Indu. in India
Bokaro is in Jharkhand not Bihar.
Coal from Jharia not Zaria.
please sir give some answer formet for public administration and geogrphy optional
sir,pls provide viedo lecturers in english also
Sir I cant find the ppt of this article plz help me ?
sir in the slide of energy security …mam has explained a data about energy consumtion of india and production in world in percentage ? is this data is correct?