CBSE Class 10 Answered

 India's prosperity ies in increasing and diversifying its manufacturing industries because of the following resons:

• Manufacturing industries help in modernizing agriculture
• They also reduce the heavy dependence of people on agricultural income by providing them jobs.
• Industrial development reduces unemployment and poverty
• It also brings down regional disparities
• Export of manufactured goods expands trade and commerce, and brings foreign exchange.
• Prosperity of our country depends on transforming raw materials into furnished goods of higher value and diversifying our industries.
• Industrial sector contributes 27 % of GDP and manufacturing contributes 17 % of GDP.