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“The Bokaro Iron and Steel Plant is an example of Industrial Complex.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Industry

An industrial complex is not a cluster of factories but a linkage system: a set of activities at one location bound by technical, production and marketing interrelationships, whose togetherness yields cost savings unavailable to any member alone.

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  • What an industrial complex means
  • Bokaro tested against the definition
  • Backward linkages
  • Technical and lateral linkages
  • Forward linkages
  • How complete is the complex today
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