Bhilai steel plant is located in

Concept

India's major public-sector integrated steel plants set up during the Second Five-Year Plan (1956-61) were each built with a different foreign collaborator and located in a different state - a standard 'plant leads to state leads to collaborator' fact tested repeatedly in static GK.

Application

The Indo-Soviet agreement for Bhilai Steel Plant was signed in 1955 and construction began the same year; the plant was commissioned in 1959 and stands in Durg district. At the time, Durg was part of undivided Madhya Pradesh, but the state of Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000, and Durg (with Bhilai) now lies within Chhattisgarh. The plant is run by the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), so the correct answer is Chhattisgarh.

Cross-check

• Rourkela Steel Plant (Odisha) was built with West German collaboration.

• Durgapur Steel Plant (West Bengal) was built with British collaboration.

• Bokaro Steel Plant (Jharkhand) was built with Soviet collaboration, sanctioned in the 1960s with production beginning in 1972 - added well after Bhilai.

• None of these sister plants is Bhilai, cross-confirming that Bhilai's own state is Chhattisgarh.