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Study the given table and answer the following questions:

Steel Plants	Year of Establishment	Collaborating Country	Location
IISCO	1870-1913 (Private initially)	(Nationalised in 1972)	Kulti and Burnpur (W.B.)
TISCO	1907 (Private ownership)	Jamshedji Tata	Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
VISL	1923 Pvt. as MISCO	Nationalised later	Bhadravati (Karnataka)
Bhilal	1959 (Public sector)	Soviet Union	Bhilai (M.P.)
Bokaro	1972 (Public Sector)	Soviet Union	Bokaro (Jharkhand)
Durgapur	1959 (Public Sector)	U.K.	Durgapur (W.B.)
Rourkela	-(Public Sector)	Germany	Rourkela (Orissa)
Vishakhapatnam	-(Public Sector)	_	Vishakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh
Salem	-(Public Sector)	_	Salem (T.Nadu)
Vijay Nagar	_(Public Sector)	_	Karnataka

(a) Name the only private sector iron and steel plant in India.

(b) Name the two iron and steel plants established in collabaration with Russia.

(c) Name the iron and steel plant established in collaboration with Germany.

Answer:

(i) TISCO (Tata Iron and Steel Company) at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand is the only private sector iron and steel plant.

(ii) Bhilai and Bokaro steel plants are established with  Russian collaboration.

(iii) Raurkela iron and steel plant is set up with German collaboration.