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Which state is the largest producer of coal in India?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Jharkhand
Production ranks vary a little from year to year between the leading states, with Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh all major producers; Jharkhand holds the largest reserves and has historically led output. India’s coal lies almost entirely in the Gondwana rocks of the eastern peninsula, laid down some 250 million years ago, and it is concentrated in the Damodar valley - Jharia, Bokaro, Raniganj and Karanpura - along with the Mahanadi and Godavari basins. Jharia is India’s most important coking-coal field, and the only substantial one, which is why it matters to the steel industry; a coal-seam fire has burned there since 1916. Most Indian coal is bituminous with a high ash content, which is why coking coal is imported despite large domestic reserves. Anthracite occurs only in small quantities in Jammu and Kashmir. Coal supplies the largest share of India’s electricity.
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