Barauni Oil Refinery Plant is situated in which district of Bihar?

CONCEPT: An industrial plant belongs to the administrative district that contains its physical site; its trade name or proximity to another transport centre does not change that district.

For a location-based question, the reliable method is to match the plant operator’s official address with the corresponding district administration record.

APPLICATION

IndianOil identifies Barauni Refinery at Barauni, on the edge of the district town of Begusarai in Bihar. IndianOil documents also give its postal address as Begusarai, Bihar.

CONTRAST

• Saharsa is a separate district in the Kosi division of northeastern Bihar; its administrative geography does not include the Barauni refinery site.

• Madhubani is a separate northern Bihar district; its administrative geography does not include the Barauni refinery site.

• The multiple-location choice would require the same named refinery plant to fall in at least two listed districts, whereas an official plant address resolves to one district.

• The exclusion choice would require every named district to be absent from the official address, but the address names one of them.

RESULT

Therefore, Barauni Oil Refinery is situated in Begusarai district.