India's first newsprint factory is located at which place in Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Amlai
- B.Nepanagar
- C.Hoshangabad
- D.Mandideep
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Nepanagar. Nepanagar in Burhanpur district was built as a township around the newsprint mill now run by Nepa Limited, and that mill was the first newsprint factory in India, started in the years around independence so that Indian newspapers would not depend wholly on imported paper. It was designed to use bamboo and locally available grasses as raw material.
Option A, Amlai in Shahdol district, has the Orient Paper Mill, which makes writing and printing paper, not newsprint, so it is a close distractor. Option C, Hoshangabad, now Narmadapuram, has the Security Paper Mill that makes bank note and stamp paper. Option D, Mandideep in Raisen district, is a general industrial area near Bhopal with graphite electrode, pharmaceutical and engineering units. The word newsprint is the key: it belongs only to Nepanagar.
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Practice Questions
View allPithampur, the industrial area called the Detroit of India, lies in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Indore
- B.Dhar
- C.Dewas
- D.Ujjain
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Pithampur stands in Dhar district, about thirty kilometres south-west of Indore city, and its vehicle and auto component plants earned it the name Detroit of India.
Read the full explanation →The heavy electrical equipment plant of BHEL in Madhya Pradesh is located at
- A.Bhopal
- B.Jabalpur
- C.Gwalior
- D.Satna
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The plant stands at Govindpura in Bhopal and was set up in the 1950s as Heavy Electricals India Limited with British collaboration, before it became part of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
Read the full explanation →The Bank Note Press, which prints currency notes, is situated in which town of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Dewas
- B.Hoshangabad
- C.Indore
- D.Ratlam
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The Bank Note Press at Dewas prints currency notes and is a unit of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Madhya Pradesh is known as the cement capital of the state?
- A.Sagar
- B.Satna
- C.Shahdol
- D.Sehore
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Satna district has the thickest and purest limestone of the Vindhyan rocks, and a line of large cement plants works there and in neighbouring Maihar, which is why the district is called the cement capital of Madhya Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →Nagda, also called Birlagram, is known for the manufacture of
- A.Newsprint
- B.Viscose staple fibre and rayon
- C.Cement
- D.Aluminium
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Nagda in Ujjain district, on the Chambal, grew around the Grasim plant that makes viscose staple fibre, rayon grade pulp and caustic soda, and the township attached to it is called Birlagram.
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