Read the following statements regarding manganese in Madhya Pradesh and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1. In 2020 - 21, Madhya Pradesh was ranked second in the country for manga

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Read the following statements regarding manganese in Madhya Pradesh and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1. In 2020 - 21, Madhya Pradesh was ranked second in the country for manganese deposits.
2. In 2020 - 21, Madhya Pradesh was ranked first in the country for manganese production.
3. There are manganese deposits in Godavari and Wardha river valleys in Chhindwara district.
4. There are manganese deposits in Thandla tehsil of Jhabua district.
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UnlockIAS · Accepted Answer

Correct — B, statements 2, 3 and 4. The official key accepts the production claim and both location claims, and rejects the deposits-rank claim. Statement 2 is accepted: for 2020-21 Madhya Pradesh is credited with the country's top rank in manganese-ore production, which fits the state's position as the home of the Balaghat–Chhindwara–Seoni manganese belt. Statements 3 and 4 are the standard state-geography entries — manganese occurrences in Chhindwara district (the Godavari and Wardha valley tracts of the Satpura region) and in Thandla tehsil of Jhabua district in the west of the state. Statement 1 is the one the key rejects: Madhya Pradesh's strength in manganese lies in output, not in the size of its resource base, where Odisha holds by far the largest share of India's manganese resources.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) It carries statement 1, the deposits-rank claim that the official key rejects, and it also drops statement 4 (Thandla tehsil, Jhabua), which the key accepts.  (c) It keeps the rejected statement 1 and leaves out statement 2 — the production rank, which is precisely the claim about Madhya Pradesh's manganese standing that the key does accept.  (d) 'All of them' would be right only if the deposits-rank claim also held. Because statement 1 fails, every code containing it fails with it.

Concept: India's central manganese belt runs across the Balaghat–Chhindwara–Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh and continues into Bhandara and Nagpur in Maharashtra; the ore occurs in the Precambrian rocks of this tract, with pyrolusite (MnO2) as the principal ore mineral. Balaghat is the state's most important manganese district — MOIL Ltd, a central public-sector undertaking, runs its largest manganese mine there. Manganese matters because it is an alloying metal: the bulk of it goes into steel-making as ferro-manganese and silico-manganese, with dry-cell batteries a smaller use.

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