Sandeep BadadAIR 82 · CSE 2025 · 190 wordsTheir whole copy
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Iron and steel plants location has affected by factors like supply of raw materials, shifted from input based to market based in recent decades.
Concentration in Eastern and Central part because:
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Raw material availability: Most of iron ore mines are situated in chotanagpur region from westbengal to Telangana.
Import of raw material from Australia at east coast ports eg Vizag steel plant.
Adequate Power supply: → due to numerous cheap and uninterrupted power supply.
- Hirakud dam & hydro power plant
- coal thermal power plants - 1
- Supply of coking coal and limestone both are non weight losing and abundantly available in the region.
- Supply of water for cooling is easily available
- Huge investments already made in this region owing to traditional factors
- Connectivity network of rail and huge labour supply
Recently the trendy is shifting to market based because
- Use of scrap steel instead as raw material available around large metro
- Large consumption market
- Ghaziabad steel works
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Iron & steel industries are critical for capital goods which form basis of manufactury sector - thus adequate growth is imperative.
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