Jhumri Telaiya

Template:Infobox Indian urban area Jhumri Tilaiya is a town situated in the north-western region of Koderma District in Jharkhand, India. It is one of the only two towns in the Koderma district, the other being Koderma. It is situated in the Damodar Valley. Alternative spellings include Jhumri Telaiya and Jhumri Talaiya.

History

Jhumri Tilaiya 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 set up business in this region. The biggest mica mining house was CH Private Ltd, started by Chattu Ram Bhadani and Horil Ram Bhadani.(Now the family members of this family are in a pathatic state deprived of family property as there are no son for Horil Ram) Prosperous businessmen built huge mansions in Jhumri Tilaiya. Mercedes and Porsche cars, and thoroughbreds from Arabia used to be common in Jhumri Tilaiya. 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, which controlled the largest share of mica mining and export activity in the world at a time, was still active in Jhumri Tilaiya as of 2006.

Vividh Bharati

Jhumri Tilaiya was originally a sleepy mining town, which became famous in India due to its connection with Vividh Bharati programmes. When television channels and FM radio stations were not common, Vividh Bharati radio programmes were very popular in India. A large number of song requests for the Vividh Bharati programmes would come from Jhumri Tilaiya. Youngsters in the town would compete on who sent out the most song requests in a day or month. Almost all Vividh Bharati Radio listeners were aware of the name of this town. Many younsters used to dream of becoming HERO and some even ranaway from their homes to Bombay ,even some promient business made futile attempt to produce movie in vain .Town was STAR struck and people used to go see movie to far of places like Dhanbad to be first to watch the movie.Even some Teachers gave up their career to become HERO in late 60,s. Some people used to doubt the existence of Jhumri Tilaiya, thinking of it as an imaginary place and this reference is made in several movies .name="ref_Koderma_official_overview"/>. Mica kings expanded their business to other centres in India but none of the family were able to sustain the growth or look forward for massive expanstion .All the scions of Mica kings were trying to consolidate their owm position rather than the growth of company,there were couple of them but due untimely death of some senior member the growth halted the process.

Geography

Jhumri Tilaiya is situated about six kilometers from Koderma, close to Bodh Gaya. The entire town is divided by the grand cord line which passes through the middle of the town.

Telaiya dam and reservoir

Telaiya dam is the first dam and hydro-electric power station constructed by the Damodar Valley Corporation across Damodar River. The dam is 1200 ft long and 99 ft high. 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 181449 fingerlings of mrigal, 103480 fingerlings of rohu and 27211 fingerlings of catla fish in the year [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.

Administration

Jhumri Tilaiya is situated in the Kodarma block of the district. The PIN code of Jhumri Tilaiya is 825409.

Transport

The nearest railway station is at Koderma, which is connected to Delhi, Kolkata, and Bhubaneswar. Buses, jeeps, and three wheelers connect Jhumri Tilaiya to Koderma. The nearest airport is Ranchi (162 km). Another is Patna(175 km) in Bihar. Bokaro (87 km) is another nearby major railway station. The highway that crosses Jhumri Telaiya is popularly known as Ranchi Patna Road . The Koderma valley is famous for its U-turns.

Facilities

Medical

• Parvati Clinic
• Holy Family Hospital
• Durga Poly Clinic
• Raj Nursing Home
• Shiv-Parvati Home
• City Nursing Home

Others

• Lions Club of Jhumri Tilaiya
• Rotary Club of Jhumri Telaiya
• Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal Jhumri Telaiya

Events

• The Nirankari Regional-level Samagam for Bihar-Jharkhand was held at Jhumri Taliya on March 9, 2005
• The 13th Bihar-Jharkhand State level Character Building Training Camp of All India Vivekananda Yuva Mahamandal was held at Jhumri Tilaiya on November 3 - 5, 2006.

Demographics

The most popular language is Magahi, spoken by the Mahuri Vaishya community of this town. Apart from this, Punjabi, Bengali, Marwari, Hindi and English are also spoken by people in this town. As of 2001 India censusTemplate:GR, Jhumri Tilaiya had a population of 69,444. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Jhumri Tilaiya 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 Tilaiya, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Educational institutes

There are 11 primary schools, 8 upper schools, 3 secondary schools, 2 higher secondary schools and 4 degree colleges in Jhumri Telaiya.

Schools

• Sainik School Tilaiya: 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 September 16, 1963. It provides education from Class VI to XII.
• Gandhi High School
• Modern Public School
• Adarsh Mahavidyalaya
• ST.Joseph School
• DAV Public School
• CD Girls High School ( Founded by Mika Kings )
• CH High School ( Founded by Mica Kings )
• Grizzly Vidalaya
• Purnima Vidya Mandir Telaiya ( Founded by Mica Kings )
• MMLWO High School Karma

Colleges

• Chatthuram Horilram Intermediate College (CHIC)
• Jagannath Jain College (JJ College)

Culture

Dussehra, Diwali and Durga Puja are the major festivals in Jhumari Tilaiya. Diwali was celeberated with large illuminations in Bhadani road where the houses of Mica Kings owners used to be illuminated and many people used to come from different places to see it. There use to be Gowsala mela. Saraswati Puja is celebrated during Vasant Panchami in big fanfare by students and there wused to be lot of cultural activities associated with it.

The most popular sweet in the town is kalakand . It is a refined form of mawa, tofu and sugar. The most popular restaurant is Kanaihya Mishtan. Earlier, there used to be Bhatia Mistan Bhandar, which was famous for sweets; people passing by Patna-Ranchi]] road would halt here for kalakand.Litte is also delicious dish in this part as people eat it during the winter sitting in front of bonfire.

There are two movie halls named Jawahar Talkies and Purnima Talkies. Movies of Mithun Chakraborty and Mandakini are very popular. The main commercial area of the town is known as Jhanda Chowk.

Cricket was introduced by two south Indian Brothers who's parents were employed by Mica kings which became passion in Jhumri Telaiya and many budding cricketers have latter played for university cricket.Cricket came to a standstill in the town after theyalong with [Bengali people|Bengalis]] migrated to some other place in late 60'. Many students fron CH school who has been employed in many mutinational companies are proud to be associated with jhumri telaiya, some have made great mark in India as well abroad. s. Football matches were played in a grand way and many tournaments used to take place in CH school grounds which use to attract many people .

External links

• Thumbnail pictures of the Jhumri Tilaiya town and Telaiya dam