Coal mining started at Raniganj in West Bengal in the year _______.

1700

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1765

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1774

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1779

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Solution

The correct option is D 1774
Raniganj power plant is located in the Barddhaman district of west Bengal. Discovery of coal led to industrialisation in this area. It is a pithead coal based thermal power plant.
Coal mining in India first started in the Raniganj Coalfield. In 1774, John Sumner and Suetonius Grant Heatly of the British East India Company found coal.

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