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chemical industry is becoming more important in india today .why?​

Answer 1

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Historical development

The development of the chemical industry in India can be traced to the indigenous efforts of P. C. Ray, a professor of chemistry at Calcutta Univ. Ray established the pharmaceutical company Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Works in 1892; it was incorporated nine years later. This was followed by the founding of Alembic Chemical Works at Baroda (now Vadodara) in Gujarat, by B. D. Amin (1).

During World War II (1939–1945), foreign drug supplies decreased and several Indian pharmaceutical companies opened, including Unichem, Chemo Pharmaceuticals, Zandu Pharmaceutical Works, Chemical Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories (CIPLA), and East India Pharmaceutical Works. The Indian government later established five public-sector companies. Two of them— Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd. (HAL) in 1954 and Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (IDPL) in 1961 — played particularly important roles.

During the first two decades after India’s independence from British rule in 1947, several industrial units were established to make basic chemicals, dyes and textile auxiliaries, and fertilizers (Table 1). By the 1960s, India had also developed a sizeable alcohol-based chemical industry that used ethanol as feedstock (2). A recommendation that “molasses-based alcohol be totally reserved for industrial use,” rather than used as an energy source (3), and stricter controls on sugarcane molasses as well as alcohol prices and allocations played a role in this development.

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Answer 2

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chemical industry is becoming more important in india today because

(i) Chemicals play a major role in our food. The preservatives, taste enhancers and flavours helps the food to be palatable and increase the shelf life. Food Industry thrives for the reason, that the preservatives not only help them to maintain the quality of the food, but also helps them to import food to different parts of the world

(ii) More than 80% of the chemical industry concentrates on producing polymers, and plastics. They are not only used in packing, but also in numerous other things, like wiring, furniture, clothing, home décor, prosthesis and electronics.

(iii) Fertilizers, and pesticides aids in the agriculture and development. The green revolution has happened only due to the advancement of chemical industry in India.

(iv) Advanced researches like bio-engineering, mutation, artificial human organ production and genetic-reengineering are made possible in India, only with the help of the proper chemical industries.

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