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Guftagoo with Shafiullah Siddiqui | A retired foreman from Churk Cement Factory
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:23:57
Publish Date: 2022-03-25 13:41:43
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Conversation recorded in Gorakhpur at the guest's house on 14 April 2015

Mohd Shafiullah Siddiqui (Born 4 October 1930, Mohammadabad, Siwan) is a self made person. He worked mainly in the Churk Cement Factory, Sonebhadra (Energy Capital of India, then known as Mirzapur, UP). He is one of those hundreds of skilled and unskilled labourers who have joined this factory (Pt Nehru termed as the temple of Independent India)

Gurma Markundi was the place where various limestone mines were dug and used to create Cement.

This region became an industrial heaven from an area of forest and hills. Some of the hills were having limestone and lot of them were having coal. There were some small rivers running through the area and the major was the Son.

Owing to the limestone hills, initially one cement factory was established at Churk in 1956. Later another cement factory started at Dala in 1971 name them Dalla cement factory this Cement plant is Biggest plant in Asia and ancillary unit of Dala got started at Chunar in 1980. The cement factories became the foundation on which other industries were built. A big dam constructed at Pipri in 1961 and named Rihand Dam. The dam produces 300 MW of electricity. Another small dam was constructed at Obra in 1968, 40 km from Rihand dam which generates 99 MW of electricity.

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