Consider the following pairs with reference to Thermal Power Plants and their location in respective states in India: Thermal Power Plant — Located in State I. Panki — Uttar Pradesh II. Parli — Karnataka III. Vijayawada — Telangana IV. Vanakbari — Gujarat How many of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
- (a)1
- (b)2
- (c)3
- (d)4
Correct — B, two pairs are correctly matched. The Panki Thermal Power Station stands at Kanpur, so pair I (Panki-Uttar Pradesh) is right, and the Wanakbori (Vanakbari) station is in Kheda district of Gujarat, so pair IV (Vanakbari-Gujarat) is right. The other two are mismatched: the Parli (Parli Vaijnath) station is in Maharashtra, not Karnataka, and the Vijayawada Thermal Power Station lies in Andhra Pradesh, not Telangana. With two pairs correct and two wrong, the count is two.
- (a)1 — This undercounts — both Panki-Uttar Pradesh and Vanakbari-Gujarat are correct, so at least two pairs match, not one.
- (c)3 — This overcounts — it would need Parli-Karnataka or Vijayawada-Telangana to be right, but Parli is in Maharashtra and Vijayawada is in Andhra Pradesh.
- (d)4 — All four cannot be correct — two of the four pairs (Parli and Vijayawada) are mismatched with the wrong states.
India's thermal power stations are spread across the states and are usually run by state generation companies. Placing a plant correctly means knowing its host state — Panki near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Wanakbori in Gujarat, Parli in Maharashtra and the Vijayawada (VTPS) station in Andhra Pradesh.
The two wrong pairs use neighbouring or nearby states as bait. Parli is put in Karnataka when it is a well-known Maharashtra station, and Vijayawada is put in Telangana when it is in Andhra Pradesh — a natural slip after the 2014 split of the two states, since Telangana's big thermal stations are Ramagundam and Kothagudem, not Vijayawada. Checking each host state gives two correct pairs.
- Panki Thermal Power Station is at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
- Wanakbori (Vanakbari) Thermal Power Station is in Kheda district, Gujarat.
- Parli (Parli Vaijnath) Thermal Power Station is in Beed district, Maharashtra, not Karnataka.
- Vijayawada Thermal Power Station (VTPS) is in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, not Telangana.
Two pairs (Panki and Vanakbari) are correct and two (Parli and Vijayawada) are wrong, so the answer is 2 (option B).
- Placing the Vijayawada plant in Telangana — it is in Andhra Pradesh; Telangana's big stations are Ramagundam and Kothagudem.
- Placing Parli in Karnataka — it is a Maharashtra thermal station.
Asked as plant-and-state pairs to be counted or matched, testing the host state of each named thermal power station.
The thermal power plant of Bokaro is located in
- (a) Bihar
- (b) Chhattisgarh
- (c) Jharkhand
- (d) Orissa
Answer(c) Jharkhand — the Bokaro Thermal Power Station is in Bokaro district, Jharkhand.
The same skill of fixing a thermal power station in its correct state, exactly what this item asks across four plant-state pairs.
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I (Hydroelectric Power Plant) A. Doyang B. Gomuti C. Kapili D. Ranganadi List II (State) 1. Arunachal Pradesh 2. Assam 3. Tripura 4. Nagaland Code:
- (a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
- (b) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
- (c) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
- (d) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
Answer(a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
The same power-plant-to-state matching from the previous NDA GAT — there for hydroelectric plants, here for thermal ones, both testing whether you can place a station in its host state.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Vijayawada Thermal Power Station (VTPS) is located in which one of the following states?
- (a)Andhra Pradesh
- (b)Telangana
- (c)Karnataka
- (d)Odisha
Answer(a) Andhra Pradesh — the Vijayawada plant lies in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Panki Thermal Power Station is located in which one of the following states?
- (a)Uttar Pradesh
- (b)Bihar
- (c)Madhya Pradesh
- (d)Rajasthan
Answer(a) Uttar Pradesh — the Panki station is at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.