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Fort Gloster is located in (a) West Bengal, (b) California or (c) Gujarat

Question: Fort Gloster is located in

A. West Bengal,

B. California,

C. Gujarat 

Answer: Fort Gloster is located in (a) West Bengal. Fort Gloster is a little place in India’s West Bengal area with a capacity of about 18,350 people. Fort Gloster is around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from West Bengal’s capital, Kolkata. The distance between Fort Gloster and New Delhi, India’s capital, is roughly 1,293 kilometres.

The company was founded in Calcutta in 1890. Jute hessian,  all forms of rubber gunny bags, PVC cables, household and heavy-duty type PILC  trailing, railway signalling, power cables, mining, and other speciality cables and rubber goods are all manufactured by the company.

Production fell to 30,220 tonnes in 1983-84, owing to a manufacturing strike from January 16 to April 7. From December 15 1983, till the end of January 1984, a part of the workforce went on strike, causing production to be impeded. In 1978-79, the company embarked on a program to produce cross-linked polyethylene cables (XLPE Cables), and contracts were made to import machinery. Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. of Japan agreed to collaborate on technical issues. The firm name was switched from Fort Gloster Jute Mfg. Co. Ltd. to the current one in 1957.

Fort Gloster Industries Ltd. is a 131-year-and-eight-month-old public company founded on September 24, 1890. It is headquartered in Howrah, West Bengal, India. The company is operating, and it has submitted all of its annualised returns & income reports until March 31, 2020. (FY 2019-2020). According to the MCA, it is a limited company with a paid-up amount of Rs 1,215.33 lakh and an authorised capitalization of Rs 2,000.00 lakh. The organisation is made up of 6 Directors and 2 Signatories. Bhawana Jain and Sankar Narayan Roychowdhury, Chief Financial Officer (KMP), Company Secretary, are the KMP or Key Managerial Personnel at Fort Gloster India. Directorships are currently held by Shree Ram Poddar, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Ajay Kumar Agarwal, and three additional members.