This document discusses factors that influence the location of industry and infrastructure. There are two main categories of location factors: physical factors and socio-economic factors. Physical factors include accessibility, climate, land availability, power sources, and proximity to raw materials. Socio-economic factors that influence industry location are capital availability, transportation and communication networks, government policies, available labor supply, and access to markets. The document also provides examples of key infrastructure sectors such as chemical, manufacturing, energy, food and agriculture, and defines infrastructure as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for an economy to function.

1. Infrastructure and Location of
Industry
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Narendra B. Bhandava
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2. Factors influencing industrial location
Location factor are easily divided into two
section;
• Physical factors
• socio-economic (human) factors

3. Physical factors
Accessibility: The site of the new factor needs to be accessible, so
that importing of raw materials and exporting of finished products
is easy.
Climate: The climate could affect where an industry locates, as
it needs to attract workers to the area. This is not a
particularly important factor.
Land: The site of an industry is very important. Usually, flat land
is the most essential thing to find.

4. Power: Initially, industry had to locate right beside its power source.
• Water power source
• Electrical power source
Raw Materials: Old, heavy industry required large amounts of bulky
raw materials, which were very costly to transport, and so the
industry located close to them.
Example. sugar manufacturing factory should be near the sugarcane
farms.

5. Socio-economic factors
Capital: Companies cannot set up their chosen industry without
investment of money. This may come from private sources or from
the government.
Communications: Probably the most important factor for new
industries nowadays. Transport routes such as the motorways,
airports, railways and the ports are all things that will attract
industrial location.
Communications increasingly also includes access to the
internet, fax and phones. All these allow industries to have a
greater freedom of choice over their location.

6. Government policy: Governments can greatly influence the location
of industry, by giving tax incentives, cheap rent and other benefits
to companies locating in certain areas of the country. Often these
are places, which the government wants to develop economically.
Labour Supply: Many companies often set up in or around large
cities due to the shear demand for labour.
Markets: These markets are absolutely vital to industry today. No
longer are they local but some world wide.

7. Infrastructure of industry
Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational
structure needed for the operation of a society or
enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an
economy to function.
Infrastructure is the operational framework of an
institution or organization. It defines in full details the
basic components that keep the organization operational.

8. Various sector of Infrastructure
Chemical sector
Manufacturing sector
Communication sector
Dams sector
Energy sector
Food and agriculture sector
Financial sector

9. Chemical sector Manufacturing sector

10. Communication sector Dams sector

11. Energy sector Food and agriculture
sector
All Power plants

12. Example:-

13. Thank you
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Bhandava Narendra B.