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Question
What are the facilities enjoyed by ‘Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Works’?
Solution
It is ideally located because most of the materials required are available within a radius of 50 km at Bhadr,avati. Instead of coal it was charcoal from the wood in Shimoga and Kadur forests.
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