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Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 19 this plant lies in raniganj and jharia coal belt and gets iron ore from noamundi fig. 8.7. durgapur lies on the main kolkata-delhi railway route. hydel power and water is obtained from the damodar valley corporation dvc. bokaro steel plant this steel plant was set up in 1964 at bokaro with russian collaboration. this plant was set up on the principle of transportation cost minimisation by creating bokaro-rourke...
Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 20 other raw materials come to bokaro from within a radius of about 350 km. water and hydel power is supplied by the damodar valley corporation. other steel plants new steel plants which were set up in the fourth plan period are away from the main raw material sources. all the three plants are located in south india. the vizag steel plant in vishakhapatnam in andhra pradesh is the first port based plant which star...
Arihant current affairs magazine
Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 21 apart from these major steel plants there are more than 206 units located in different parts of the country. most of these use scrap iron as their main raw material and process it in electric furnaces. the cotton textile industry is one of the traditional industries of india. in the ancient and the medieval times it used to be only a cottage industry. india was famous worldwide for the production of ...
Arihant current affairs magazine
Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 22 abundant skilled labour required for this industry was available in this country. in fact in some areas the people were producing cotton textiles for generations and transferred the skill from one generation to the other and in the process perfected their skills. initially the british did not encourage the development of the indigenous cotton textile industry. they exported raw cotton to their mills ...
arihant current affairs magazine
Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine published this article page no 23 this city had several advantages as a cotton textile manufacturing centre. it was very close to the cotton producing areas of gujarat and maharashtra. raw cotton used to be brought to mumbai port to be transported to england. therefore cotton was available in mumbai city itself. moreover mumbai even then was the financial centre and the capital needed to start an industry was available there. as a la...