The Gun Carriage Factory, the Vehicle Factory and the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria are situated in which city?
- A.Jabalpur
- B.Bhopal
- C.Gwalior
- D.Burhanpur
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The correct answer is A, Jabalpur. Jabalpur is the defence production centre of Madhya Pradesh. The Gun Carriage Factory, the Vehicle Factory, the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria and the Grey Iron Foundry all stand in or near the city, and they made it the ordnance town of central India. Its position in the interior of the country, far from any border, and its rail links were the reasons for siting them there.
Option B, Bhopal, has the BHEL heavy electricals plant at Govindpura and the industrial area of Mandideep nearby, but not the ordnance factories. Option C, Gwalior, is linked with old textile mills and with the Malanpur and Banmore industrial areas. Option D, Burhanpur, is the district of the Nepanagar newsprint mill and of power loom weaving. Jabalpur with defence, Bhopal with heavy electricals is the pair to fix.
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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 →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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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.
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.
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