Question

The thermal power plant of bokaro is located in _________.
A. Bihar
B. Chhattisgarh
C. Jharkhand
D. Odisha

Answer 1

Hint:Bokaro Thermal Power Station B (BTPS - B) is situated in Bokaro district, 44 km from Bokaro Steel City and 55 km from Dhanbad City. Bokaro Thermal is the closest railroad station. The power plant is one of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) coal based power plants .

Complete answer:
The installed capacity of Bokaro Thermal Power Station B is 630 MW. In March 1986, the 1st unit was commissioned. The station is situated near Bokaro 'A' Thermal Power Station on the banks of the Konar River. The DVC network supplies all the power generated by the plant.

A. Bihar :-In Barh, in the Indian state of Bihar, Barh Super Thermal Power Station or NTPC Barh is located. NTPC Barh is located just four kilometres east of the Barh sub-division in the district of Patna on National Highway-31. The project has been declared a mega-power project and is operated by the National Thermal Power Corporation, an Indian energy company.
 B. Chhattisgarh :-The main source of energy in Chhattisgarh is coal. Hydropower, geothermal power and renewable sources constitute the Chattisgarh Energy Resource in addition to Coal Thermal Power. The state has 16 percent of India's total coal reserves.
Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is situated in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh at Jamnipali in Korba district. The power plant is one of the National Thermal Power Corporation's coal-based power plants (NTPC).
C. Jharkhand :-Bokaro Thermal is a census town in the state of Jharkhand, India, in the Bermo subdivision of Bokaro district. The Bokaro Thermal Power Station is located in this area, sometimes colloquially referred to as 'BTPS'. It is the oldest thermal power plant in Asia owned by Damodar Valley Company, the first river valley multipurpose project in India. It was launched in 1952 by the country's then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in cooperation with the USA and West Germany.
 D. Odisha :-The only Odisha government-owned thermal power generating company is Odisha Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC). It was incorporated on 14 November 1984 under the Companies Act 1956.
OPGC began as a solely-owned Orissa State Government Corporation. It owns and operates 2 ,210 MW power plant units at the Banharpali Ib Thermal Power Station (ITPS) in the Jharsuguda district of Odisha.

Hence, the correct answer is option C.
Note:1. India currently has 22 reactors in operation at 7 nuclear power plants with an installed capacity of 6780 MWe.
2. Hussain Sagar Thermal Power Station is a historical thermal power plant situated on the banks of Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad, Telangana. It was the first thermal power station in India, opened by the former 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1920.
3. The country's cheapest and most plentiful power source is coal, which accounted for 74 percent of India's electricity generation in 2018. The second largest portion (18 percent) of power generation is renewable energy, which is the fastest growing power source.