Question

The steel plants set up during the second five year plan is ___________.
a. Bhilai, durgapur and bokaro
b. Jamshedpur, durgapur and bokaro
c. Bhadrakali, bhilai and rourkela
d. Rourkela,durgapur and bhilai

Answer 1

Hint:
- With the help of Russia, Britain (the UK) and West Germany, hydroelectric power projects and five steel plants were established.
- The Second five year Plan was based on public sector growth and rapid Industrialisation

Complete solution:
As per the second five-year plan, five steel plants were built, including those in Durgapur, Bhilai and Rourkela.

In cooperation with Britain, Durgapur Steel plant was built, Rourkela Steel plant was established in cooperation with Germany and Bhilai steel plant was started in cooperation with Russia.
The Hindustan Steel Limited (HSL), which was set up on 19 January 1954, traces its history to SAIL. Initially, HSL was planned to handle only one plant that arrived at Rourkela.
The Iron and Steel Ministry did the preliminary work for the Bhilai and Durgapur Steel Plants.

Lets see our options :

a. Bhilai, durgapur and bokaro : bhilai and durgapur were built during the second five year plan but not bokaro thus this option is wrong.
b. Jamshedpur, durgapur and bokaro : durgapur was set up during the second five year plan but not jamshedpur and bokaro thus this option is wrong.
c. Bhadrakali, bhilai and rourkela : bhilai and rourkela were built during second five year plan but not bhadrakali thus this option is wrong too
d. Rourkela,durgapur and bhilai : rourkela , durgapur and bhilai were set up during the second five year plan thus this is the right option.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
- India was the world's second-largest producer of steel with 111.2 million tonnes (MT) of production in 2019.
- In 2010, it produced 62.8 million tonnes of alloy, but it is still only about one tenth the size of China, the No.1 country producing steel.
- At the end of the fiscal year 2020, the production volume of crude steel in India amounted to 108,5 million metric tonnes. For the first time in nine financial years, a decline in output volume was observed. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation was under complete lockdown in the second half of March 2020.