GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

HIMACHAL PRADESH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The cement factory at Rajban in Sarmaur district was installed in-
A
1976
B
1978
C
1979
D
1980
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The first cement factory established in Himachal Pradesh was the C.C.I. (Cement Corporation of India) in Rajban, a small town near Paonta Sahib, Sirmaur. C.C.I is a public sector undertaking of the Central Government and is based in New Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first Indian cement plant was established in Chennai. This happened in the year 1904.

Detailed explanation-3: -India entered into the Cement Era in 1914, when the Indian Cement Company Ltd. started manufacturing Cement in Porbundar in Gujarat. However, even before that a small cement factory was established in Madras in 1904 by a company named South India Industrial Ltd.

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