Chaibasa

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Chaibasa
Chaibasa Location of Chaibasa in Jharkhand and India
Coordinates	22°34′N 85°49′E / 22.57°N 85.82°E / 22.57; 85.82
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
District(s)	Pashchimi Singhbhum
Population	63,615 (2001[update])
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 222 m (728 ft)

Chaibasa is a city and a municipality in Pashchimi Singhbhum district in the state of Jharkhand, India.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Demographics 3 Education 4 Entertainment 5 Transportation 6 Bhhokhi Peedhi 7 References

[edit] Geography

Chaibasa is located at 22°34′N 85°49′E / 22.57°N 85.82°E / 22.57; 85.82^[1]. It has an average elevation of 222 metres (728 feet).

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census^[2], Chaibasa had a population of 63,615. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Chaibasa has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 79% and female literacy of 68%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

[edit] Education

Education in Chaibasa is of good quality. This city has a number of educational institutes: 1. DAV School 2. Xavier's Missonary school 3. M.L Rungta Inter college. 4. Tata College. 5. Women's College and an ongoing list too ST.VIVEKA

[edit] Entertainment

Chaibasa is full of entertainment. Whatever your genre may be, you will find things which interest you. There are two cinema halls, yashoda and JMP. Outside both halls, you can find a lot of items to eat like golgappa, jhalmuri, dosa, idli, Chinese food etc. Also recently many new restaurants have been built in the city. One of good one is near gandhi maidan. Also there are many in sadar baazar. You can find lots of fruit items at very reasonable rate in the market. There are a lot of picnic spots near chaibasa. To list a few are 1. chaliyama Dam 2. Kuju 3. Lutheran jheel 4. Rungta garden 5. kokcho 6. Jhikpani 7. Roro Dam 8. Airport Garden

Also, this place is full of natural beauty and hence any place will look like a picnic spot.

Also , In the heart of Town There is a small lake with two small island , recent renovation makes them must visit and it looks good during night too.

[edit] Transportation

Though chaibasa is not very well connected by any means, reaching chaibasa is not that difficult. Best connected place is Jamshedpur which is 60 KM away from chaibasa. There are two local trains and one shatabdi trains running from jamshedpur to chaibasa. Shatabdi trains connect chaibasa to kolkata. Condition of roads is very poor in jharkhand. If you are not in very hurry, do not take the road. It is full of trucks and jams are very frequent. Also roads are in bad condition which make the journey even more worse. It is not connected by aeroplanes but there are halipads available.

[edit] Bhhokhi Peedhi

The exponents of world famous literary and cultural movement Bhookhi Peedhi or Hungry generation Samir Roychoudhury resided in this town for several decades after 1950s.

[edit] References