Geography
The Rourkela Steel Plant is the first integrated steel plant in public sector with an installed capacity of 1 million tonnes. 'Parvati', its first blast furnace was lighted by Dr Rajendra Prasad, India's First President, on 3rd February 1959. It was built in ………. with cooperation from ………. .
- Bhirmitrapur; Britain
- Baradwar; France
- Keonjhar; Russia
- Sundargarh; Germany
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