UPSC Civil Services Model Paper 8

In USA, most of the production comes from the north Appalachian region (Pittsburgh), Great Lake region (Chicago-Gary, Erie, Cleveland, Lorain, Buffalo and Duluth) and the Atlantic Coast (Sparrows Point and Morisville).
These are major Iron and Steel Industry areas of the world, not IT regions.
Hence statement 1 is incorrect.
The important other steel centres are Birmingham and Sheffield in the U.K.; Duisburg, Dortmund, Dusseldorf and Essen in Germany; Le Creusot and St. Ettienne in France; and Moscow, St. Petersburgh, Lipetsk, Tula, in Russia and Krivoi Rog.
Bangalore, Gurgaon and Hyderabad are major Information Technology hubs developing in India. Bangalore is known as Silicon Valley of India .
Hence statement 2 is correct .
High-tech industries that are regionally concentrated, self-sustained, and highly specialised are called technopolies