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Indian Power and Energy Sector Questions

Multiple choice biology carbon cycling mineral coal carbon cycle coal and its products coal petroleum and petrochemicals

In India, about ______ % of total power is generated by using nuclear energy.

  1. 2

  2. 3

  3. 4

  4. 6
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
3, India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power programme and expects to have $14.6 GWe$  nuclear capacity on line by 2024 and$ 63 GWe$ by 2032. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050.
Because India is outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its weapons programme, it was for 34 years largely excluded from trade in nuclear plant or materials, which has hampered its development of civil nuclear energy until 2009.
Due to earlier trade bans and lack of indigenous uranium, India has uniquely been developing a nuclear fuel cycle to exploit its reserves of thorium.
Since 2010, a fundamental incompatibility between India’s civil liability law and international conventions limits foreign technology provision.
Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence issues of the environment international efforts for conserving biodiversity effects of pollution on environment government efforts in pollution control

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down _________ in the automobiles exhausts.

  1. Sulphur

  2. Nitrogen oxides

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down sulphur and nitrogen oxides in the automobiles exhausts.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence issues of the environment international efforts for conserving biodiversity effects of pollution on environment government efforts in pollution control

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down _____ in the automobiles exhausts.

  1. Sulphur

  2. Nitrogen oxides

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down sulphur and nitrogen oxides in the automobiles exhausts.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence issues of the environment international efforts for conserving biodiversity effects of pollution on environment government efforts in pollution control

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down.

  1. Sulphur

  2. Nitrogen oxides

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Government of India has adopted auto fuel policy to effectively cut down sulphur and nitrogen oxides in the automobiles exhausts.

Multiple choice industries in tamil nadu human geography in tamil nadu geography

Salem Steel Plant is a Public Sector company undertaken by the Government of _____.

  1. Chennai Municipal Corporation

  2. Tamil Nadu

  3. India

  4. Karnataka
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Salem Steel Plant is a public sector company undertaken by the Government of India.

Multiple choice industries in tamil nadu human geography in tamil nadu geography

Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) located at _____ is one of the six large units in electronics sector in India.

  1. Thiruchirapalli

  2. Thiruvarur

  3. Thiruppur

  4. Thirunelveli
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited located at Thiruchirapalli is one among the six large units of India. It produces boilers generators and turbines used in the production of hydro-electricity.

Multiple choice geography mineral and energy resources - i iron and steel industries iron and steel industry mineral based industries

Which of the following steel plants was started with the collaboration of Russia?

  1. Bhilai

  2. Durgapur

  3. Rourkela

  4. Bhadravati
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

After independence, during the second five-year plan, three new integrated steel plants were set up with foreign collaboration. In 1964 another one integrated steel plant was set up with foreign collaboration: 

(1) The Rourkela Steel plant in Orissa in collaboration with Germany in 1959.
(2) Bhilai Steel Plant in Chattisgarh with Russian collaboration in 1959.
(3) Durgapur Steel Plant in West Bengal  in collaboration with the United Kingdom in 1962
(4) Bokaro Steel Plant in Jharkhand with Russian collaboration in 1964

Multiple choice geography mineral and energy resources - i iron and steel industries iron and steel industry mineral based industries

The following is the list of rion and steel plants located in various parts of India.
A.Vishakhapatnam
B. Bhadravati
C. Jamshedpur
D. Salem
E. Rourkela
F. Bokaro
G. Vijayanagar
H. Durgapur
Which of the following iron & steel industries located outside the Chota nagpur region ?

  1. A D G H

  2. B C F G

  3. A B D G

  4. B E G H
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Most of India's major iron and steel industries are located in Chota Nagpur Plateau region because of the availability of high-grade iron ore, good quality of coking coal and other supplementing raw material.

Chota Nagpur Plateau region comprising parts of Chattisgarh, Northern Orissa, Jharkhand, and Western West Bengal.
Large integrated Steel Plants which are found in this region are -
(1) Rourkela Steel Plant, Orissa
(2) Burnpur steel plant, West Bengal
(3) Durgapur Steel Plant, West Bengal
(4) Kulti Steel Plant, West Bengal
(5) Jamshedpur steel plant, Jharkhand
(6) Bokaro Steel Plant,  Jharkhand
Thus iron and steel industries in Vishakhapatnam(Andhra Pradesh), Salem (Tamilnadu,) Bhadravati (Karnataka), and Vijayanagar(Karnataka) are located outside the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. 

Multiple choice geography mineral and energy resources - i iron and steel industries iron and steel industry mineral based industries

The steel plants set up during the second five year plan is ___________.

  1. Bhilai, Durgapur and Bokaro

  2. Jamshedpur, Durgapur and Bokaro

  3. Bhadravali, Bhilai and Rourkela

  4. Rourkela, Durgapur and Bhilai
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

  • Rourkela steel plant is located in Durgapur of Odisha state. It was the first integrated steel plant established when second five year plan was in action.
  • It was established with the help of German collaboration and operated by SAIL. This plant had installed capacity of one million tons in 1960s.

Multiple choice geography mineral and energy resources - i iron and steel industries iron and steel industry mineral based industries

Which of the following steel plants is not managed by Indian Steel Authority Limited?

  1. Bokaro Steel Plant

  2. Alloy Steel Plant, Durgapur

  3. Rourkela Steel Plant

  4. Selaam Rust resistant Steel Plant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Iron ans Steel Authority of India  consists of 10 integrated plants. Except TISCO, Jamshedpur, all the integrated plants are in the public sector and are managed and supervised by the Steel Authority of India. Indian Steel Authority is an integrated steel manufacturing company. SAIL has integrated plants at Bokaro i.e Bokaro Steel Plant, Durgapur i.e Durgapur Steel Plant, Rourkela i.e Rourkela Steel Plant. 








Multiple choice geography mineral and energy resources - i iron and steel industries iron and steel industry mineral based industries

The thermal power plant of Bokaro is located in _______.

  1. Bihar

  2. Chhattisgarh

  3. Jharkand

  4. Odisha
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bokaro Thermal Power Station B is located at Bokaro district in Jharkhand, 44 km from the Bokaro Steel City and is about 55 km from Dhanbad city.. The nearest railway station is Bokaro Thermal. The power plant is one of the coal based power plants of DVC.

Multiple choice economics sustainable development with equity liberalisation objectives of economic planning in india need for sustainable development introduction to social movements and its types social movements

Which of the following is the most indigenous atomic power plant in India?

  1. Kalapakkam

  2. Tarapur

  3. Kota

  4. Trombay
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Madras Atomic Power Station located at Kalpakkam about 80 kilometres south of Chennai, India, is a comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors.

Multiple choice commercial applications management of natural resources unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

Hot water of Manikaran is used for generating electricity. It is known as 

  1. Solar energy

  2. Biomass energy

  3. Geothermal energy

  4. Hydroelectric energy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
A. Solar energy is energy generated from heat of sun.
B. Biomass energy is generated from the biomass i.e. organic matter of plants and animals which in turn, contains the stored solar energy.
C. Geothermal energy is the energy generated from heat of earth. 
D. Hydroelectric energy is generated using water which is passed over turbines which flow at a high speed and electricity is generated.
Manikaran (located in Himachal Pradesh) hot springs are used to generate geothermal energy because the heat of the water is used to produce electricity.
So, the correct answer is 'Geothermal energy'.
Multiple choice commercial applications management of natural resources unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

Geothermal energy is produced in India from hot springs by a 5 KW geothermal power plant at

  1. Manikaran (HP)

  2. Puga (Ladhakh)

  3. Gulfs of Kutch

  4. Ankleshwar
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Geothermal energy is energy from the shallow ground hot water and hot rock found some miles or deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma. Geothermal activity in the Parbati Valley is due to the hot springs at Manikaran, a village situated on the banks of Parbati river in Himachal Pradesh. Thus the correct answer is option A.