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write a short note on iron and steel industry.

We live essentially in age of iron and steel ."Because of its hardness,strength and durability".Iron is the most important and widely used metal in the service of man.Although Indians are known for their technique of smelting iron since early time,the first iron and steel unit on modern lines was established in 1830 at Porto Nova in Tamil Nadu.The real beginig o the modern iron and steel industry was made in 1907 only when Tata Iron and steel company (TISCO) was set up at Jamshedpur.Its loaction is primarily controlled by the availability of raw materials.

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Iron and steel industry is a basic industry which provides sound base for modern industrial development.

It provides raw materials for machine tools, construction, transport, agricultural imple­ments and several other industries which are so essential for modern civilization and way of life.

So much so that the quantity of steel production and its per capita consumption are used as measures to judge the level of industrialisation and economic development. Although India is the eighth largest steel producing country of the world but its per capita consumption of steel (24 kg in 1998-99) is much below than the world average (150 kg) and developed countries (U.S.A. 700 kg).


 
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