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opening up of these tracts by means of railways will have an imme¬ 
diate effect on stick-lac production. The only project which seems 
up to the present to have taken definite form is the Raipur-Vizia- 
nagram chord, which should result in the development of very import¬ 
ant Kusum areas in Raipur, Patna and Kalahandi. 
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