How did Iron and Steel factories come up in India?
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Iron And Steel Factories Come Up In India
Soon in 1914 first world war was broke out. Steel produced in Britain had to meet the demand of war in Europe. Import of British steel into India declined and the Indian Railway, that was expanded at the time, turned to TISCO for supply of rails.
Explanation:
Iron and steel is the basic industry and serves as the backbone of our economic development. It provides raw materials, all types of machinery to run other industries. For example, machine, engineering industries
b. In 1830 a small steel plant was set up in Madras coast.
c. Further rise of iron and steel industry dates back to 1874 when the Bengal Iron Works came into being at Kulti, in West Bengal
d Them we saw the rise of TISCO started in 1907 at Sakchi by Dorabji Tata, near the confluence of the rivers Subarnarekha and Kharkai in Jharkhand.
e. Sakchi was later renamed as Jamshedpur.
f. TISCO changed its name to Tata Steel in 2005.
g. In realising with the growing importance of the industry, a series of plants came up up .in Rourkela (Orissa), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) and Durgapur(West Bengal) , Bokaro in Bihar
h. India today produces 73.42 ( 2011-12 data) million tons of total finished steel and ranks fourth largest among the World crude steel producers. ( 2012 data )