Which one of the following statement is NOT correct ?
- (a)Bokaro steel plant is located in Damodar river basin
- (b)Jamshedpur steel plant is located on the confluence of Damodar and Barakar
- (c)Salem steel plant is located on the bank of Kaveri River
- (d)Bhilai steel plant obtains water from Tandula reservoir
Correct — B, Jamshedpur steel plant is located on the confluence of Damodar and Barakar. Jamshedpur stands where the Kharkai joins the Subarnarekha, in the Subarnarekha basin, ringed by the Dalma hills. It is a different river system altogether from the Damodar. The Damodar and the Barakar meet far to the north, in the Damodar valley of Jharkhand, at the site of the Maithon dam — nowhere near Jamshedpur. So the statement names the right town but the wrong pair of rivers, and that is what makes it the one that is not correct. Jamshedpur is where the Tata works began construction in 1908 and rolled their first steel ingot on 16 February 1912.
- (a)Bokaro steel plant is located in Damodar river basin — This one is true, so it cannot be the answer. Bokaro Steel Plant is in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, with the Damodar cutting its valley right across the district and the Bokaro river running past the city into it. The plant was incorporated in 1964 with Soviet assistance and began operating in 1972.
- (c)Salem steel plant is located on the bank of Kaveri River — Not the odd one out. Salem Steel Plant is the stainless steel unit in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, standing in the foothills of Kanjamalai beside the Salem to Bengaluru highway, and the Kaveri is the great river of that district. The phrase on the bank of is loose for a works that sits some way from the channel, but the statement is not wrong in the way the Jamshedpur one is, which names a confluence in the wrong river system entirely.
- (d)Bhilai steel plant obtains water from Tandula reservoir — This is true. The Tandula dam in Balod district, Chhattisgarh, supplies drinking water to the Durg and Bhilai Nagar municipal area and meets the industrial requirement of the Bhilai Steel Plant, which was set up with Soviet help in 1955.
India's integrated steel plants were sited by a simple industrial logic — put the works where iron ore, coking coal, water and power can all be assembled cheaply. Water is the constraint that is easiest to test in an exam, because every plant is tied to a named river or reservoir. Jamshedpur draws on the Subarnarekha system, Bokaro and Durgapur on the Damodar valley, Rourkela on the Koel and the Sankh, and Bhilai on the Tandula reservoir. Learn the plants by their water and the map arranges itself.
The statement about Jamshedpur is built to sound right. Jamshedpur really is in the eastern coalfield belt, the Damodar and the Barakar really do meet at a famous confluence, and both facts live in the same chapter — so a candidate who recognises every word can accept the sentence without noticing that the words have been recombined wrongly. The defence is to check the pairing rather than the vocabulary. Jamshedpur belongs to the Subarnarekha and the Kharkai; the Damodar and Barakar confluence belongs to the Damodar valley and its dams. One incidental point about the printing is that the stem reads which one of the following statement is not correct, in the singular, with a space before the question mark; that is a typesetting slip in the booklet and does not change what is being asked.
- Jamshedpur stands on the confluence of the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers and is surrounded by the Dalma hills.
- Construction of the Tata works at Jamshedpur began in 1908 and the first steel ingot was rolled on 16 February 1912.
- Bokaro Steel Plant lies in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, in the Damodar valley; it was incorporated in 1964 with Soviet assistance and began operating in 1972.
- The Tandula dam in Balod district, Chhattisgarh, supplies water to Durg and Bhilai Nagar and meets the industrial requirement of the Bhilai Steel Plant.
- Accepting a statement because every proper noun in it is familiar, without checking that they belong together.
- Assuming that everything on the Chhota Nagpur plateau drains into the Damodar.
- Reading 'on the bank of' too literally and rejecting a statement the paper treats as sound.
Asked as a negative statement item — three sound sentences about plant sites and one in which the river pairing has been swapped.
Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
- (a) Rourkela Steel Plant, the first integrated steel plant in the Public Sector of India was set up with the Soviet Union collaboration
- (b) Salem Steel Plant is a premier producer of stainless steel in India.
- (c) Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd. is a subsidiary of the Steel Authority of India Ltd.
- (d) Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is a unit of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
Answer(a) Rourkela Steel Plant, the first integrated steel plant in the Public Sector of India was set up with the Soviet Union collaboration
The identical device on the identical topic — one sentence about a steel plant with a single detail swapped, here the foreign collaborator rather than the river. Rourkela was built with West German help, and Salem's stainless steel is the same plant this question also names.
Consider the following statements: 1. The Sharavati river creates Jog Falls. 2. The Brahmani river is formed by the confluence of the Kosi and Sankh rivers. 3. The Tamraparni is a river of Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. How many of the above statements is/are correct?
- (a) 1
- (b) 2
- (c) 3
- (d) None
Answer(b) 2
The very same trick with a river confluence. There the Brahmani's two feeder rivers are misnamed, the Kosi put in place of the Koel; here Jamshedpur's confluence is misnamed. Both reward checking which rivers actually join, rather than whether the names are familiar.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Jamshedpur steel plant is located at the confluence of which two rivers?
- (a)Damodar and Barakar
- (b)Subarnarekha and Kharkai
- (c)Koel and Sankh
- (d)Brahmani and Baitarani
Answer(b) Subarnarekha and Kharkai — the Koel and Sankh meet at Rourkela, and the Damodar and Barakar in the Damodar valley.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which steel plant draws its industrial water from the Tandula reservoir?
- (a)Durgapur
- (b)Rourkela
- (c)Bhilai
- (d)Bokaro
Answer(c) Bhilai — the Tandula dam in Balod district, Chhattisgarh, supplies Durg and Bhilai and meets the plant's industrial requirement.