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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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Satna. 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. Cement is a weight-losing industry, so plants come up at the quarry and send the finished bags out by rail, and coal from the eastern coalfields is within easy reach.
Option A, Sagar, is the district of the Bina oil refinery, not of cement. Option C, Shahdol, is known for the Orient Paper Mill at Amlai, for coal and for aluminium. Option D, Sehore, is an agricultural district near Bhopal with no large mineral industry. Other cement districts worth remembering with Satna are Katni, Damoh and Neemuch, and all of them sit on the same limestone belt.
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- 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 →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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