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This article is about the municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India. For its namesake district, see Singrauli District.
Singrauli
Singrauli
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Population
 (2011)
 • Total1,178,132
Websitewww.singrauli.nic.in

Singrauli (Hindi: सिंगरौली) is a town in Singrauli district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

History

The founder of this place is Vivek Jaiswal.The area in the eastern part of the state of MP and the adjoining southern part of Sonbhadra district in the state of UP is collectively known as Singrauli. Singrauli is emerging as India’s Energy capital, the place earlier known as Shringavali, named after the sage Shringi, was once upon a time covered with dense and unnavigable forests and inhabited by wild animals. The place was considered so treacherous that it was used by the Kings of Rewa State, who ruled the area till 1947, as an open air prison for detaining errant civilians and officers.

Just two generations ago, small holders were tending their parcels of land here, and the original inhabitants were gathering honey and herbs in the forest. In the late fifties, a large scale dam banked up the water of the River Rihand. The dam known as Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar, was inaugurated by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1962. Later, rich coal deposits spread over an area of 2200 km² in the state of M.P. (eastern part of Sidhi District) and U.P. (southern part of Sonebhadra District) were discovered close to the artificial lake that could be used to generate electricity.[1]

On 24 may 2008 ,Madhya Pradesh government has declared Singrauli as its 50th district by separating from Sidhi with 3 tehsils viz. Singrauli, Chitrangi and Deosar.On 1st April 2012 two new tehsils are added viz. Mada and Sarai.

This area has group of Rock cut caves made in 7-8th century A.D. in Mada which is 32 km from waidhan.Mada is situated in Mada tehsil of Singrauli district.Famous caves include Vivah Mada, Ganesh Mada and Shankar mada, Jaljalia and Ravan Mada.These caves are not only a beautiful examples of rock cut caves but it is spendid also from the point of view of iconography.

Besides rock cut caves, singrauli also has Painted rock shelters. Ranimachi, Dholagiri and Goura pahad lies in Chitrangi tehsil of Singrauli.These painted rock shelters belong to the Mesolithic age of Microlithic implememts culture.These paintings are representative of the early history of Indian art.The paintings are made of red Ochre.[2]

Demographics

  • As of 2011 India census,[3] Singrauli had a population of 1,178,132. Males constitute 52.2%(614,885) of the population and females 47.8%(563,247).The Percentage decadal growth rate of population is 28 with Sex-Ratio of 916 and Population density per km2 is 208.
  • Singrauli has an average *literacy rate of 62.4%, lesser than the national average of 70.6%: male literacy is 73.8%, and female literacy is 49.9%. In Singrauli, 17.34% of the population is under 6 years of age.(*Literacy rate is the percentage of literates to total population aged 7 years and above).
  • Population growth rate of Singrauli in census 1951-1961 was 24.8(being 24th in Madhya Pradesh),in 1961-1971 was 35.9(4th in M.P.),in 1971-1981 was 36.4(3rd in M.P.),in 1981-1991 was 44.9(2nd in M.P.), in 1991-2001 was 38.6(1st in M.P.) in 2001-2011 was 28(4th in M.P.).It is aspected that Singrauli will be 1st in Madhya Pradesh in population growth rate during 2011-2022 because of industrial development.

District Statistics and south Asia's biggest industrial area

See also: List of cities in Madhya Pradesh

Connectivity

By Air

By Rail

  • Singrauli Railway Station
  • Shaktinagar Railway station

The following trains originate/pass through Singrauli.

  • Singrauli Varanasi Inter-city express (Daily)
  • Singrauli Lucknow-Bareilly Triveni express (Tri-weekly)
  • Singrauli Patna Link Express (Daily)
  • Singrauli Jabalpur inter-city express (To be introduced in 2012)
  • Howrah Singrauli Jabalpur Shaktipunj express (Daily)
  • Bhopal Singrauli Howrah express (Weekly)
  • Ahmadabad Bhopal Singrauli Kolkata Sare Jahan Express (weekly, to Ahmadabad in July 2012)
  • Ajmer Singrauli Kolkata express (weekly)
  • Santragachi (Kolkata) Tata Nagar Singrauli Ajmer express (Weekly)
  • Katni Singrauli Chopan over night fast passenger (Daily)
  • Bhusawal Singrauli Chopan passenger (Daily)
  • Shaktinagar Lucknow-Bareilly Triveni express (4 Days-week)

Though this area is full of industries and lot of movement of man and material takes place, the area is not connected properly to the metros and port cities of India in terms of rail connectivity. Direct rail connectivity is required for New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

By Road

Singrauli district has good connectivity to nearby major cities. The nearest city to Singrauli is Varanasi 208 km by road, nearest railway junction is Singrauli junction (the one platform junction between Katni-Chopan line), it is 768 km from Bhopal. The nearest airport is at Varanasi and one at Mayurpur owned by Hindalco. Private transport facilities are also available in this area and it is directly connected with Chattishgarh (Ambikapur), Maharashtra (Nagpur) and UttarPradesh (Varanasi) by road. Singrauli is approximately 50 km from Renukoot which has train connectivity with Jammu Tawi, Amritsar, Delhi, Ranchi and Rourkela. Sasan TPP of Reliance Power is located near Singrauli.

Industries

All major companies operating in Singrauli are giants of Indian energy industry. The operations of companies include mining of coal to power generation. In recent past, several private companies have also joined the league of companies operating in Singrauli. It is expected by 2017, that Singrauli would feed around 35,000 MW of electrical power to the grid alone.

Major companies operating or coming up at Singrauli are:

Rail department is planning to expand their network here. Recently Renukoot Station is subjected to survey for an additional platform.

Mining

All these Industrial developments have only been possible because Mother earth has blessed this part of the land with mineable reserves of Coal. Northern Coalfields Limited, the PSU coal major and the highest profit making subsidiary of Coal giant “Coal India Ltd” is the only coal feeder to these power, chemical and cement plants located within the vicinity of Singrauli Industrial Zone. With many billion tonnes of coal being mined for the last 35-40 yrs, it still sits on a geographical reserve of more raw material area. However, there is concern over possible deforestation, and environmental loss from mineral development.

Social responsibility played by industries at Singrauli

With Singrauli being scattered in M.P and U.P there is no real life development with the common people. The entire credits on developments in this zone directly goes to the host of Corporate honchos Viz; NCL Singrauli, NTPC, Hindalco Industries. The real development is still to be done, with investment by energy and mining companies worth more than INR 500 Billion coming up in this area and airport by Reliance Singrauli will see a facelift in 10 to 15 years.

Education

Singrauli is fast emerging as a major educational hub in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Major Schools in and around Singrauli:

Major Colleges

  • 7 Government degree colleges including 2 women colleges
  • Govt. Polytechnic collegeWaidhan
  • I.T.I.Singrauli
  • Mayaram mahavidhyalaya, Singrauli
  • Singrauli Institute of Technical education(SITE)Singrauli
  • Sai mahavidhyalayaVindhyanagar
  • Amrit VidhyapithVindhyanagar
  • Rajiv Gandhi collegeWaidhan
  • Sainath Nursing College

Tourist places in and around Singrauli

1.Natural Heritage

2.Dams

  • Rihand dam
  • Obra dam
  • Kaachan dam
  • Badwani dam
  • Tippa Jharia dam

3.Parks

4.Rivers and Water falls

  • Rend (Rihand) river
  • Gopad river
  • Mahaan river
  • Kachani river
  • Jhinga jharia and Gohwaiya river
  • Mayaar river
  • Rakashganda fall
  • Neelkanth river and fall
  • Kudargarh fall

5.Famous Temples and religious places

References

  1. ^ http://www.singrauli.nic.in
  2. ^ www.mptourism.com/web/unknown/index.html
  3. ^ www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/prov_data_products_MP.html
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