WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 147 of 200

Answer: (B) 1984

Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd was set up in the mid-1980s as a West Bengal government-backed joint venture to build a naphtha cracker complex at Haldia port; the key dates its establishment to 1984, and the plant began commercial production only in 2000. 1974 is too early, before the project was taken up, while 1988 and 1992 are later stages of the long-delayed project.