1. MY COUNTRY
INDIA

2. UNIQUE BLEND OF
CUSTOMS AND
TRADITIONS IN INDIA
INDIA has a unique blend of
customs, traditions, religions and
languages. Hinduism, Buddhism,
Sikhism, Jainism, Judaism,
Zoroastrianism, Christianity
and Islam co-exist here in
harmony. This wonderful blend
makes INDIA a favourite
destination for tourists. There are
many tourist attractions here, such
as, historical monuments, natural
beauty and entertainments like

3. INDIA STATISTICS-
STATES (PART 1)
S STATE CAPITAL LITERACY
NO. %
1. Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad 60.50
2. Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 54.30
3. Assam Dispur 63.30
4. Bihar Patna 47.00
5. Chhattisgarh Raipur
6. Goa Panaji 82.00
7. Gujarat Gandhinagar 69.10
8. Haryana Chandigarh 67.90
9. Himachal Pradesh Shimla 76.50
10. Jammu And Srinagar 55.50
Kashmir

4. INDIA STATISTICS-STATES
(PART 2)
S STATE CAPITAL LITERACY
NO. %
1. Maharashtra Mumbai 76.90
2. Manipur Imphal 70.50
3. Meghalaya Shillong 62.60
4. Mizoram Aizawl 88.80
5. Nagaland Kohima 66.60
6. Orissa Bhubaneshwar 63.10
7. Punjab Chandigarh 69.70
Rajasthan Jaipur 60.40
9. Sikkim Gangtok 68.80
10. Tamil Nadu Chennai 73.50
11. Tripura Agartala 73.20
12. Uttarakhand Dehra Dun 71.60
13. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 56.30

5. INDIA STATISTICS-UNION
TERRITORIES
S Union Capital Literacy
NO Territories %
.
1. Andaman And Port Blair 81.30
Nicobar Islands
2. Chandigarh Chandiga 81.94
rh
3. Dadra And Nagar Silvassa 57.63
Haveli
4. Daman And Diu Daman 78.20
5. Lakshadweep Kavaratti 86.66
6. National Capital New 81.70

6. INDIA STATISTICS
COUNTRY NAME - INDIA
CAPITAL - NEW DELHI
AREA (SQ. KM) - 32,87,240
POPULATION - 1,028,737,436
LITERACY (%) - 64.80
DENSITY (PERSONS PER SQ. KM)
- 313
LIFE EXPECTANCY - 63
CURRENCY - INDIAN RUPEE
GDP PER CAPITA ($) - 2,600

7. INDIA-FACTS
Latitudinal location – National Fruit -
8.4°N -37.6°N Mango
Longitudinal location Highest Peak - K2 /
– 68.7°E -97°.25 E Godwin Austin
Status – Sovereign,
Democratic Republic Highest Waterfall –
Location - South Jog Falls
central region in Asia Largest Lagoon –
Area-wise – 7th largest Chilika Lake
country in the world Biggest Fresh water
Population-wise – 2nd Lake – Wular Lake
largest country in the Salt water Lake –
world Sambhar Salt Lake
National Animal –
Tiger
National Bird –
Peacock

8. INDIA-PLACES OF TOURISM
Dal Lake – Srinagar Fort – Gwalior
Golden Temple – Jagannath Rath Yatra –
Amritsar Puri
Red Fort – Delhi Gateway of India –
Hawa Mahal – Jaipur Mumbai
Taj Mahal - Agra Charminar – Hyderabad
Kedarnath Temple – Vidhana Soudha –
Uttarakhand Bengaluru
Shillong – Meghalaya Snake Boat Race –
Heora Bridge - Kolkata Alappuzha
Mamallapuram –
A monument at the
Government Park –
Puducherry

9. INDIA-CLIMATE AND
NATURAL HAZARDS
TYPES OF CLIMATE DANGERS TO
Highland INDIA
Humid subtropical Droughts
Semi-arid
Hot desert
Arid
Cold desert
Tropical wet and
dry Floods
Tropical wet Cyclones
Tsunami

10. INDIA-GEOLOGY AND SOILS
TYPES OF GEOLOGY TYPES OF SOILS
Quaternary – Recent Red soils
Tertiary Red and Yellow soils
Deccan Traps Laterite soils
Mesozoic Sub - montane soils
Upper Palaeozoic Desert soils
(Gondwana) Grey and Brown soils
Lower Palaeozoic Black soils
Upper Proterozoic Mountain soils
(Vindhyan)
Alluvail soils
Lower Proterozoic
(Cuddapah) Skeletal soils
Archaean Glacier soils

11. INDIA-LAND USE AND
NATURAL VEGETATION
TYPES OF TYPES OF
LAND USE NATURAL
VEGETATION
Arable
Mountain
Forest vegetation
Non-agricultural Tropical moist
use deciduous forest
Tropical dry
Plantation
deciduous forest
Scrub and grass Thorn forest
Unproductive

12. INDIA-MINERALS
METALLIC MINERALS MINERAL FUELS
Bauxite
Chromite Coalfields
Copper Gas fields
Gold
Lignite
Iron ore
Lead And Zinc Oilfields
Manganese
Silver
Tungston

13. INDIA-MINERALS
(NON-METALLIC
MINERALS)
Asbestos Gypsum
Barytes Kaolin
Clay Limestone
Diamond Magnesite
Dolomite
Mica
Feldspar
Fireclay Phosphates
Granite Pyrites
Graphite Quartz
Salt
Uranium

14. INDIA-IRRIGATION AND
FOREST
SOURCES OF TYPES OF FOREST
IRRIGATION Tropical evergreen
Canal irrigation forest
Tank irrigation Tropical deciduous
Well irrigation forest
MAJOR IRRIGATION Tropical thorn forest
PROJECT Sub-tropical
Godavari broadleaved forest
Tawa Sub-tropical dry
Ranvir evergreen forest
Krishna Sub-tropical pine
forest
Rana Pratap Sagar Mountane wet
temperate forest
Himalayan temperate
forest

15. INDIA-DRAINAGE BASINS
1 Brahmani 11 Narmada
2 Brahmaputra 12 Penneru
3 Ganga 13 Ponnaiyar
4 Godavari 14 Sabarmati
5 Indus
15 Subarnarekha
6 Kaveri
7 Krishna 16 Surma
8 Luni 17 Tapi
9 Mahanadi 18 Vaigai
10 Mahi 19 West coast
drainage
20 Others

16. INDIA-WILDLIFE
NATIONAL PARKS WILDLIFE
Dudhwa SANCTUARIES
Desert Ramnagar
Sariska Rupi Bhawa
Indravati Kawal
Van Vihar Yaval
Satpura Karlapat
Sanjay Gandhi Koyna
Gir
Chandoli
Corbett
Sohagbarwa
Panna
Khangchandzhong
ar
Wild Ass

17. INDIA-FOOD CROPS AND
CASH CROPS
FOOD CROPS CASH CROPS
Rice Sugarcane
Wheat Coconut
Bajra Cotton
Jowar Jute
Tea
Maize
Coffee
Barley
Tobacco
Ragi Rubber
Pulses Oilseeds
Spices
Fruits

18. INDIA-POWER PROJECTS
CONVENTIONAL ALTERNATIVE
POWER PROJECTS POWER
Atomic PROJECTS
Gas
Biogas
Hydel
Geo-Thermal
Thermal
Solar
Tidal
(experiment)
Wind

19. INDIA-INDUSTRIES
AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING
BASED BASED
Cashewnut Aircraft building
Cotton Automobile
Jute
Cables and wires
Paper
Food processing
Rubber goods
and beverage
Silk and other
fabrics Locomotive
Sugar Machinery, tools
Tobacco and parts
Vegetable oils Ship building

20. INDIA-INDUSTRIES
MINERAL BASED OTHERS
Aluminium
Asbestos Chemicals
Brass and copper Drugs and
Cement pharmaceutical
Ceramics and s
glass
Fertilizer Electronics and
Iron and steel electric
Petroleum equipment
Leather and
leather goods

21. INDIA-AIRPORTS
INTERNATIONAL DOMESTIC
AIRPORTS
Delhi – Uttar Pradesh AIRPORTS
Amritsar - Punjab Srinagar – Jammu and
Kolkata – West Bengal Kashmir
Hyderabad – Andhra Chandigarh – Punjab
Pradesh
Chennai – Tamil Nadu Lucknow – Uttar
Thiruvananthapuram - Pradesh
Kerala Jodhpur – Rajasthan
Bengaluru - Karnataka Allahabad – Uttar
Guwahati - Assam Pradesh
Ahmadabad – Gujarat Gwalior – Madhya
Mumbai - Maharashtra Pradesh
Nagpur – Maharashtra
Ranchi – Jharkhand

22. INDIA-TOURISM
PILGRIM CENTRES HISTORICAL CENTRES
Amarnath – Jammu Srinagar - Jammu and
and Kashmir Kashmir
Sravasti –Uttar Leh - Jammu and
Pradesh Kashmir
Mathura – Uttar Ajanta - Maharashtra
Pradesh Ellora - Maharashtra
Madurai – Tamil Nadu Jaisalmer - Rajasthan
Mahabaleshwar - Agra - Uttar Pradesh
Mumbai Fatehpur Sikri - Uttar
Gaya - Bihar Pradesh
Sanchi - Madhya Kochi - Tamil Nadu
Pradesh Rajkot - Gujarat
Pushkar - Rajasthan Gangtok - Sikkim

23. INDIA-TOURISM
HILL STATIONS
Gulmarg - Jammu Aizawl -
and Kashmir Mizoram
Mount Abu -
Chikalda -
Rajasthan
Maharashtra
Dehra Dun -
Uttarakhand Almora -
Shimla - Himachal Uttarakhand
Pradesh Pirmed - Kerala
Amboli - Dalhousie -
Maharashtra
Jammu and
Rajgir - Bihar
Kashmir

24. INDIA-TOURISM
RECREATION CENTRES
BEACH LAKE
Tithal - Gujarat Srinagar - Jammu and
Murud - Kashmir
Maharashtra Bhopal - Madhya
Pradesh
Goa - Goa
Shivaji Sagar -
Puducherry - Tamil Maharashtra
Nadu Agartala - Tripura
Karwar - Udaipur - Rajasthan
Karnataka Palampet - Andhra
Vishakhapatnam - Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh Rohtak - Haryana
Chennai - Tamil
Nadu

25. INDIA-TOURISM
RECREATION CENTRES
MAJOR TOURIST SKIING
CENTRE Gulmarg -
Delhi - Uttar Jammu and
Pradesh Kashmir
Mumbai -
Maharashtra
Kullu -
Himachal
Bengaluru -
Karnataka
Pradesh
Chennai - Tamil
Nadu

26. INDIA-TOURISM
RECREATION CENTRES
(OTHER RECREATION CENTRES)
Leh - Jammu and Kashmir
Kumbhal - Rajasthan
Madhubani - Bihar
Ziro - Arunachal Pradesh
Kohima - Nagaland
Amarkantak - Chhattisgarh
Bhilai - Chhattisgarh
Jalgaon - Maharashtra
Ahmadabad - Gujarat