Jhumri Tilaiya

Jhumri Tilaiya
mica town
—  town  —
Jhumri Tilaiya Location of Jhumri Tilaiya in Jharkhand and India
Coordinates	24°26′N 85°31′E
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
District(s)	Kodarma
Koderma
Population	69,444 (2001)
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 384 metres (1,260 ft)
Codes • Pincode • 825409 • Telephone • +6534 • Vehicle • JH12

Jhumri Taliya (also spelled as Jhumri Telaiya or Jhumri Talaiya or Jhumri Tilaiya) (Hindi: झुम्री तिलैया) is a town situated in the north-western region of Koderma District in Jharkhand, India. It is situated in the Damodar Valley.

History

Jhumri Telaiya was once a major mica mining centre. While laying a railroad through Koderma in 1890s, the British first discovered vast mica deposits in this region. Mining activities started soon after and many mining houses were established. CH Private Ltd. of Chatu Ram Bhadani and Horil Ram Bhadani was the predecessor of Mica Kings, which controlled the largest share of mica mining and export activity in the world at a time.

Prosperous businessmen built huge mansions in Jhumri Telaiya. Till late 1960s, Mercedes and Porsche cars, and thoroughbreds from Arabia used to be common in Jhumri Taliya. The town once boasted of most number of phone connections and phone calls made in India.

Most of the mica used to be exported to USSR, for space and military equipment. With the dissolution of the USSR and the discovery of a synthetic substitute for mica, the mining activity declined in 1990s. The huge mansions belonging to the mine owners, sprawling over acres of land, can still be found in the town. Mica Kings were still active in Jhumri Telaiya as of 2007. Apart from that business was moved to government corporations sometime in 1973-74 through a government venture called as Bihar Mica Syndicate which was having Mica mines in Sapahi, 40 km from Jhumri Telaiya. This government venture was renamed to Bihar State Mineral Development corporation (BSMDC), which is now known as Jharkhand State Mineral Development corporation (JSMDC) (after the formation of a new state of Jharkhand). Mica mining through government corporations went on well into the mid 1990s and slowly succumbed to lack of demand / political willpower and changing times.

See also: Mica Kings

Vividh Bharati

Jhumri Tilaiya was originally a sleepy mining town, which became famous in India in 1957 owing to its connection with Vividh Bharati, a nationally broadcast radio service. At a time when numerous television channels and FM radio stations were yet to come to India, the Vividh Bharati radio shows were a national phenomenon. A large number of song requests on the Vividh Bharati programmes would come from Jhumri Telaiya. Young listeners from this town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month. One requester, Rameswar Burnwal from Jhumri Tilaiya, managed to get his name repeated on the show almost on a daily basis. Other frequent requesters were Arvind Seth, Mr.Nandlal Sinha and Mrs. Radha Sinha from Nawada Basti, Ramji Prasad,Pawan Agarwal, Sacchidanand Prasad and Triloki Prasad from Khudra Patti. Requester Arvind Seth was even invited for an interview on the television show Aaj Tak.Vividh Bharati Radio listeners thus became familiar with the town of Jhumri Tilaiya

Implications of the name

Some people used to doubt the existence of Jhumri Telaiya, believing it to be an imaginary place. The name also carried overtones of derision and insignificance. For instance, the phrase "Medical Journal of Jhumri Talaiya" would often be used to refer to a shoddily produced, insignificant medical journal.

In many ways, Jhumri Telaiya is the Indian equivalent of Timbuktoo, also widely considered to be an imaginary place. This reference is seen in several Hindi movies. Often, when Jhumri Telaiya natives attend an interviews, they are greeted with surprise that a town called Jhumri telaiya, listed in their resume, actually exists.

Jhumri which is a village in Jharkhand, whereas the word "talaiya" comes from Hindi word "tal" which means pond. Jhumri is also said to be a local folk dance. Some people believe it originates from "Jhuri", the local word for "brush", which is commonly used as fuel for cooking in the villages. Another theory is that the town of Jhumri Telaiya gets its name from to its location between two separate villages Jhumri and Telaiya Dam.

Geography

Jhumri Taliya is located at 24.43°N 85.52°E / 24.43; 85.52. It has an average elevation of 384 m (1,260 ft). It is situated about eight kilometres from Koderma. The entire town is divided by the grand cord line of Eastern Railway, which passes through the middle of the town.

Telaiya dam and reservoir

Tilaiya Dam is the first dam and hydro-electric power station constructed by the Damodar Valley Corporation across Damodar River. The dam has historic significance since it is the first dam built in post-independent India and it was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru. The dam is 1,200 ft long (370 m) and 99 ft high (30 m). The Telaiya reservoir is spread over 36 km² area. There are many educational institutes within the vicinity of Telaiya dam. The most famous of them is Sainik School (Army School) Telaiya. The entire area is surrounded by lush green vegetataion. This is an ideal place for a picnic. The main objective of the dam was controlling floods. There is a hydroelectric power station, which a capacity of 4MW. The dam and its surroundings are also a tourist attraction.

The reservoir was stocked with 181,449 fingerlings of mrigal, 103,480 fingerlings of rohu and 27,211 fingerlings of catla fish in 1968. This heavy stocking did not affect the fishery until 1970-71, largely due to the presence of the predatory catfish. Other predatory fish species such as Notopterus chitala and Barilius bola were also common.

Places of interest near Jhumri Taliya include Rajgir, Nalanda, Hazaribagh National Park, Sonbhandar Caves (rumored to have hidden Mauryan treasures), Sammed Shikhar (Jain pilgrimage), Dhwajadhari Hill, Satagawan Petro falls, the tomb of Sant Paramhans Baba at Domchanch, Makamaro Hills, and Shaktipeeth Maa Chanchala Devi.

Administration

Jhumri Taliya is situated in the Kodarma district of the newly built Jharkhand state which is separated from Bihar. The PIN code of Jhumri Taliya is 825409.

Transport

The town has a railway station and it is known as Koderma railway station. Since the station falls on the Grand chord Delhi-Howrah route, the town is well connected to major Indian cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar etc. by large no. of trains including Rajdhani express. Owing to the large railway traffic, the station is being converted into a junction. Buses, jeeps, and three wheelers connect Jhumri Taliya with nearby towns and villages.

Gaya junction(74 km), Gomoh (94 km) (now Subhas Chandra Bose Junction) are the nearest railway junctions. Bokaro (127 km) is another nearby major railway station.

The nearest airport is Ranchi(capital of JHARKHAND) (162 km). Patna, the capital of Bihar state, is situated 175 km away from the town.

The National highway No. 31 that crosses Jhumri Telaiya is popularly known as Ranchi-Patna Road. It is located is 23 km from the Grand Trunk Road. The Koderma valley is famous for its U-turns and known as Jilebi Ghati (Jalebi Valley").

Industries

In recent years Telaiya had become incubator for small scale industries because of its proximity to easy access to minerals, better highway and rail connectivity,better power infrastructure because of DVC sub station.It has RIADA industrial area which has hand pump and mica powder manufacturing unit.Telaiya has numerous spong iron plants and mica units. Two mega power plant also coming up. One is the 1000 megawatt Banjhedih power plant and one is ADAG's 4000 megawatt power plant. On the banking sector, many national and private banks are available including State Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, United Bank of India, Allahabad Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank etc. along with their ATMs.

This town has many hotels and restaurant. The Centre Square Hotel CSQ , situated right at the centre of the town , near Jhanda Chowk.

Recently this town has seen a new Web service entrant as WebWOX, Showing concern over the development of such service provider emerging form this place.

Demographics

Hindi is the major language of the town. Apart from this, Punjabi, Bengali, Marwari, Magahi, and English are also spoken by people in this town. As of 2001 India census, Jhumri Taliya had a population of 69,444. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Jhumri Taliya has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 52%. In Jhumri Taliya, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

There are 12 primary schools, 8 upper schools,5 secondary schools, 2 higher secondary schools and 4 degree colleges in Jhumri Telaiya.

Schools

PVSS D.A.V Public school

• Grizzly Vidyalaya : An ISO 2000:9001 Certifield, CBSE affiliated Residential School, located in the Damoder Valley.
• Saraswati Shishu Mandir: This is governed by the Bal Bharti Samiti, on of the sub group of rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (RSS), and is serving the society since 1984.
• Sainik School Taliya: It is the 12th in the chain of Sainik Schools established in different Indian states. It is a boys-only residential school and was established on 16 September 1963. It provides education from Class VI to XII.
• Gandhi High School
• Rameshwar Modi Mahadeo Modi High School Chandwara
• Modern Public School
• Adarsh Vidyalaya(Mahatma Gandhi Marg)was established on 1974 by Sri Dhaneshwar Sharma.It provides education from Class Nursery to 10th.
• ST.Joseph School
• St.Clares School, Lokai, Jhumri Telaiya
• PVSS DAV Public School
• Sacred Heart School
• CD Girls High School (Founded by Mica Kings)
• CH High School ( Founded by Mica Kings)
• Purnima Vidya Mandir Telaiya (Founded by Mica Kings)
• MMLWO High School Karma
• Shri Digambar Jain Vidyalaya
• Marium Public High School
• Indira Sichhan Sansthan

Colleges

• Chatthuram Horilram Intermediate College (CHIC)
• Grizzly College of Education
• Jagannath Jain College (JJ College)
• Jhumri Telaiya Commerce College (JTCC), Karma
• Ramgovind Institute of Technology ( RIT ),
• Sharma school, Near Barkee Dhamrai, started on 1988.
• Ram Lakhan singh Yadav college, Jhumri TelAIYA
• The European Academy of English Language and Computer Education

Institute

• e-genius'the computer world', Pani Tanki Road,Jhumri Telaiya, koderma

External links

• Thumbnail pictures of the Jhumri Taliya town and Telaiya dam