Answer: Kulti, Bengal
Notes: India's first large-scale from and steel industry was set up at Kulti in West Bengal in 1870. Modern metallurgy was introduced to India at Kulti with the setting up of the first blast furnace using coal instead of charcoal. Kulti Works was earlier known as Bengal Iron Works Company that was founded in 1870. In 1936, it merged with IISCO Burnpur. IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited, located at Burnpur in Asansol, is an integrated steel plant with an installed capacity of producing 2.5 million tonnes of liquid steel. Established as an industrial enterprise in 1918, IISCO produced iron from an open-top blast furnace at Hirapur (later to be called Burnpur) in West Bengal for the first time in 1922.
