Power Resources, Infrastructure and Industrial Development

What the official syllabus says

UPPCS Main Examination, General Studies VI.

Power Resources, Infrastructure and Industrial Development of UP.

Topics in detail

This line links power and infrastructure to industrial growth. Study it as a chain: power and infrastructure as inputs, industrial policy as the means, industrial development as the result.

Power resources

• Installed capacity by source: thermal (coal and gas), hydro, nuclear and renewable
• State, central and private generating stations in UP
• Transmission network: substations, intra-state lines and the green energy corridor
• Distribution: the five distribution companies and the state's demand
• Power for farms: separate feeders, solar pumps
• Reliability of supply in urban and rural areas

Infrastructure for industry

• Industrial areas and estates of the industrial development authorities
• Industrial corridors along the expressways and freight corridors; the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor through UP
• The Defence Industrial Corridor and its six nodes
• Special economic zones and export parks
• Plug-and-play units and flatted factories for small industry
• Water, roads and logistics for industrial clusters
• Digital infrastructure: data centres, broadband

Industrial development

• Phases: the early public-sector era, the decline of old industrial centres such as Kanpur, the growth of the NCR
• Industrial policies of the state from the 1990s to the present
• Growth of MSMEs and their clusters
• New sectors: electronics, mobile phones, IT, food processing, pharmaceuticals, defence
• Industrial sickness and revival
• Regional imbalance in industry and steps to spread it to Purvanchal and Bundelkhand
• Industrial pollution and environmental clearance
• Labour issues: skills, wages, labour laws

Industrial centres by region

• Western UP and the NCR: Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad (electronics, engineering, IT), Meerut (sports goods), Moradabad (brassware), Aligarh (locks), Saharanpur (wood craft, paper), Muzaffarnagar (sugar, jaggery, paper)
• Central UP: Kanpur (leather, defence, chemicals), Lucknow (IT, aeronautics, defence), Unnao (leather), Rae Bareli (railway coaches)
• Eastern UP: Varanasi (locomotives, silk), Gorakhpur (fertiliser, the Gorakhpur industrial area), Bhadohi and Mirzapur (carpets), Sonbhadra (power, cement, aluminium)
• Bundelkhand: Jhansi (BHEL plant, the Parichha power station, a new industrial development authority), Chitrakoot and Jhansi as defence corridor nodes

Concepts to apply

• Agglomeration and cluster development; backward and forward linkages
• Industrial location factors: raw material, market, power, labour, transport
• The infrastructure gap and how it raises the cost of production
• Balanced regional development through infrastructure-led growth

Overlaps

Energy planning has its own page, Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Resources; industries and trade on Trade, Commerce and Industries; investment on Investment in UP.