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प्रश्न
Why is the iron and steel industry called a basic industry?
Why iron and steel industry is called the key industry?
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उत्तर
Iron and steel industry is called a basic/key industry because all other kinds of industries such as light, medium and heavy industries depend upon it for their machinery. Steel is required to manufacture several engineering goods, construction materials, defence goods, telephonic parts and a variety of other consumer goods, making it the backbone of industrial development.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The Iron and Steel industry constitutes the backbone of the modern industrial economy’. Give two reasons to justify the statement.
Explain three reasons as to why there is a large concentration of iron and steel plants in the Chota Nagpur Region.
What are integrated steel plants?
From where does it export its finished goods?
What is the ‘speciality’ of Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant?
Name the foreign collaborators of the following Iron and Steel plants:
Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur and Bokaro.
How is it advantageous for a mini steel plant:
not to be located close to the location of the raw material?
With reference to the Iron and Steel industry in India, give logical explanation for the following:
Mini Steel plants are becoming more popular.
With reference to Tata Iron and Steel Company, answer the following;
When and where was it set up?
With reference to Tata Iron and Steel Company, answer the following;
From where does it gets its supply of Iron-ore, coal, limestone and manganese?
Define the term Heavy Industries,
Name the Steel projects in the public sector which were not set up with foreign collaboration.
Name one important centre the production of the following:
Electronic goods
Give one important centre of production of the following:
The Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT)
Name a manufacturing centre for each of the following industries:
Software
With reference to Rourkela steel plant answer the following:
Where is it located?
Give one reason to explain the following:
Mini-steel plants help in conservation of coal.
With reference to Hirakud project answer the following:
Name an Indian state benefitted by the project.
