Jamshedpur is a major industrial centre of East India. It houses companies like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Lafarge Cement, Telcon, BOC Gases, Praxair, TCE, TCS, Tinplate and many more. It is home to one of the largest industrial zones of India known as Adityapur which houses more than 1,200 small and medium scale industries.
The airport has a flight training school and simulator center for commercial pilots called Alchemist Aviation (formerly known as Tatanagar Aviation). The Jamshedpur Co-operative Flying Club was started by the Tata Sons group chairman Mr. Ratan Tata who is a pilot himself. The nearest commercial airports are Kolkata and Ranchi.
Notable Institutes in the city include XLRI (Xavier Labour Relations Institute), the oldest and one of the best management institutes in India, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, and the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, an Institute of National Importance in the field of engineering/technology.
Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (JUSCO) was carved out of Tata Steel from its Town Services Division in 2004. JUSCO is today India’s only comprehensive urban infrastructure service provider. JUSCO won National Urban Water Award 2010,2009 for PPP and 5th Asia Water Management Excellence Award.
The National Metallurgical Laboratory is located here. The third in the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) family of 38 laboratories, NML was inaugurated and dedicated to the nation on 26 November 1950 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru “in a spirit of hope and faith in the future”.
Praxair and Brin’s Oxygen Company (BOC), are producers of liquefied oxygen, nitrogen and other gases, they both have plants adjacent to the steel mill.Usha Martin located in Adityapur is a wire rope manufacturing company. Other companies are ABB, TCS, L&T, M.N.Dastur, Danielle, Italiam Pianti.
Tata Cummins Ltd. (also known as TCL1) is situated beside Tata Motors.It is a joint venture of Tata Motors and Cummins India ltd., manufacting diesel engines for vehicles assembled at Tata Motors. Other than engines for vehicles, it also manufactures engines for generators and marine use.
Lafarge Cement, earlier Tata Cement, is located near Tata Motors. Along with the smokestacks of Tata Power, a coal fired captive power station that supplies a great deal of the city’s electricity, it can be conspicuously seen from the railway tracks while coming to Jamshedpur by rail.
Jamshedpur has a high literacy rate, close to the highest in India. The Steel City has 183 schools and 13 colleges. Of these, 25 schools and one inter-college are managed by the JUSCO Education Department. They cater to over thirty thousand children, with fees at a concessional rate.
Tata Football Academy (TFA) was started in 1987 to nurture budding Indian footballers and raise the standard of Indian football. TFA is a football club in Jamshedpur, sponsored by Tata Steel. Today, Tata Football Academy is one of the premier football breeding grounds in India.
It services most areas of the city buses is terminals are Sakchi to Tatanagar Railway Station, MGM Medical College, Pardih Chowk, Kandra, NIT College, Sundernagar, Adityapur Colony, Kadma, Sonari, Mercy Hospital, Telco, Al-Kabir Polytechnic College and Govindpur.
Tata has won awards like the Prime Minister’s Trophy for Best Integrated Steel Plant for a record five times, ranked World’s Best Steel Maker for three times by World Steel Dynamics, world renowned Deming Prize for major advances in quality improvement.
Messrs Julin Kennedy Sahlin from Pittsburgh prepared the first layout of the town of Jamshedpur. What the city looks like today is a testament to his visionary plans. Jamshedpur is the only million plus city in India without a municipal corporation.
Each bus is equipped with GPS, electronic sign boards and computerized vending machines. As Jamshedpur is a participating city in centres 63 city urban development scheme JNNURM the state government has introduced around 50 LFB buses under the scheme.
Jamshedpur has a reputation as the sports capital of Jharkhand with Tata Steel promoting sporting activities. Jamshedpur’s private clubs provide opportunities for activities, such as golf, tennis, squash, billiards, horse riding and water scootering.
Jamshedpur was chosen to be one of the six cities to participate in the UN Global Compact Cities pilot programme. The other five cities are Melbourne (Australia), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Tianjin (PRC), Nairobi (Kenya) and San Francisco (USA).
Jamshedpur represented south Asia. Tata Steel’s record in community development and its close involvement in providing services to the steel city has been the reason behind Jamshedpur being nominated for the international pilot project.
Jamshedpur Shoping Mall Current is BIG SHOPER SQUER Prasent in Pardih Dimnad Road. Shoping Centre is BIG Bazzar and Entitlement Place Is Eylex Cinema 3 Screens. Eylex Cinema is First Multiplex In Jamshedpur.
Sonari Airport is a small airport serving the city at present. It is spread over a 25 acre area in the Sonari area of the city. The airport is primarily used for bringing in chartered planes of TATA group.
TV programming is provided by regional news channels like Sahara Samay, ETV Bihar and Jharkhand, Sadhna News, Mahua News. There are several news programmes broadcast by local cable operators in city areas.
JNAC is divided into two parts, one is the Tata lease area while the other is the non-Tata lease area. The leased area which is 41 km² is managed by JUSCO while the rest is managed by JNAC itself.
In 1908 the construction of the plant as well as the city officially began. The first steel ingot was rolled on 16 February 1912. It was a momentous day in the history of industrial India.
National Highway 33 (NH 33) touches the city and connects it to Mumbai and further joins the NH32, which connects with Kolkata-Delhi NH2, NH33 and NH6 connects it to Kharagpur, Kolkata.
The city falls under deciduous type of forest region and the green cover is estimated to be around 33% of the total land area. The city falls under the Seismic Zone II region.
For local transport, the commuters have the options of bus and auto-rickshaw. Auto rickshaws are the popular mode of local commuting. Jamshedpur City Bus Service is run by JNNURM.
Bus services are available from Jamshedpur to Ranchi (131 km), Patna (480 km), Gaya, Jehanabad, Kolkata (250 km), Bhubaneshwar (430 km), Cuttack, Asansol, Dhanbad, Bhagalpur etc.
English Urdu and Hindi newspapers are published from the city, including Dainik Jagran, Rashtriya Roznama Sahara, The Telegraph, Dainik Bhaskar, Hindustan and Prabhat Khabar.
Jamshedpur has many schools, some of them acclaimed nationally. See Educational institutions in Jamshedpur for a complete list of the schools and colleges in the city.
The city is well connected via rail and road services. The intra city road network is very large and planned.
Marine Drive connects Adityapur Toll Brige to Mango via Kadma, Sonari through the corridors of Jamshedpur.
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