Syllabus: GS 1 – Factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India).
| Do you agree that there is a growing trend of opening new sugar mills in the Southern states of India? Discuss with justification. | 2013 |
| Analyze the factors for highly decentralized cotton textile industry in India. | 2013 |
| Account for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world. | 2014 |
| What is the significance of Industrial Corridors in India? Identifying the industrial corridors, explain their main characteristics. | 2018 |
| Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India? | 2019 |
| Discuss the factors for the localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India. | 2019 |
| Despite India being one of the countries of the Gondwanaland, its mining industry contributes much less to its Gross Domestic Product(GDP) in percentage. Discuss. | 2021 |