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Question

Despite having huge coal reserve in our country, why do we import millions of tons of coal?

1. It is policy of Govt. of India to save its own coal reserve for future use and import now from other countries for present use.

2. Most of the thermal plants in our country are coal based and they are unable to get sufficient coal supply from our coal mines.

3. Steel plants require large quantities of coking coal which we do not have, coking coal is to be imported from other countries.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

A 1, 2 and 3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
B 2 and 3 only Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
C 1 and 2 only Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
D 1 and 3 only Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

Solution

• There is no such government policy in India which aims to save local coal for future. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect. • Most of the thermal plants in our country are coal based and they are unable to get sufficient coal supply from our coal mines. Thus, to meet the shortfall between coal demand and domestic coal supply, coal has to be imported from other countries. Hence, statement 2 is correct. • Coking coal is essential raw material in steel manufacture. But India does not have significant local reserves of coking grade coal. Thus we have to import coking coal from other countries. Hence, statement 3 is correct.

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