Chaibasa is a city and a municipality

Municipality

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 in West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum or Pashchimi Singhbhum is one of the 24 districts of Jharkhand state, India. It came into being in 1990, when the old Singhbhum district was bifurcated...

 district in the state of Jharkhand

Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Chaibsa is district headquarter of West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum or Pashchimi Singhbhum is one of the 24 districts of Jharkhand state, India. It came into being in 1990, when the old Singhbhum district was bifurcated...

 district.

Geography

Chaibasa is located at 22.57°N 85.82°E. It has an average elevation of 222 metres.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Chaibasa had a population of 63,648.total no of householders 10596.total male 33686 and total female 29962 . 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.

Education

There are a number of schools up to 10th and 12th standards in Chaibasa. However, in case of college education and degree courses the choices are limited. Recently the Kolhan University has been constituted with its head office at Chaibasa.

The city has a number of educational institutions:

SCHOOLS:-

• St. Xavier's Boys School, Chaibasa
• St. Xavier's Girls School, Chaibasa
• St. Xavier's English Medium School, Chaibasa
• Surajmull Jain DAV Public School, Chaibasa
• Mangilall Rungta Middle School, Chaibasa
• Mangilall Rungta High School, Chaibasa
• Zila School, Chaibasa
• Navodaya Vidyalaya, Chaibasa
• Lutheran school, Chaibasa
• Govt. Girls High school, Chaibasa
• St. Xavier's School, Lupungutu
• Scott Hindi Girl's school, Chaibasa
• Padmawati Jain Sarswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Chaibasa
• SPG Boys School, Chaibasa
• SPG Girls School, Chaibasa
• St. Viveka English Medium School, Chaibasa
• S.S.A.Niche Tola School, Chaibasa

University & Colleges:-

• Kolhan University
• Tata College, Chaibasa
• Mahila College (Womens College)
• G.C. Jain Commerce College
• Chaliyama Inter College
• ITI, Chaibasa

Prep-eatery Schools:-

• Tusa sardar public school
• KidZee
• Hello Kids

Economy

Chaibasa is district headquarter so that Government Institutions are the chief employers of chaibasa. Maximum ACC cement works Jhinkpani is just 18 km from Chaibasa and the main marketing place employees of ACC is Chaibasa. Some Mining and Steel Manufacturing Companies are situated in Chaibasa. S.R. Rungta Group is one of the biggest Mining & Steel Manufacturer. another are Thakur Prasad Sao & Sons, Saha Bros.

Entertainment

There are two cinema halls in Chaibasa one is Yashoda the other is JMP(Jain Movie Palace) . But the JMP cinema hall is no more in operation and only yashoda hall is availabel for entertainment. Outside both halls, a large variety of eateries can be found. Recently many new restaurants have been built in the city. Many can be found in Sadar Baazar. The weekly market can also be considered entertaining.

There are a lot of picnic spots near Chaibasa, e.g.:

• Chaliyama Dam
• Kuju
• Lutheran Jheel
• Rungta Garden
• Kokcho
• Jhikpani
• Roro Dam
• Airport Garden
• Lupungutu Jharna(Spring)
• Hakuium
• Clock house
• Shahid Park
• Cafeteria
• Birsa Munda Indoor Stadium

In the heart of Town there is a small lake with two small islands. Recent renovation makes them worth a visit.

Apart from the recent development of the Jubilee Lake (Kachari Talab), the city now has two parks, Saheed Park and Rungta Garden.

Transportation

The best connected place is Jamshedpur, which is 60 km away from Chaibasa. There are two trains running Jamshedpur which passes via Chaibasa.
1. Tata Gua Passenger
2. Tata Barbil Passenger
One another train running from Howrah i.e. Howrah Barbil Jan-Satabdi Express passes via Chaibasa. Capital of Jharkhand , Ranchi is 145 km away from Chaibasa. The city does not have a public airport, but there are some helipad

Helipad

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s.

Bhookhi Peedhi

The exponents of famous literary and cultural movement Bhookhi Peedhi or Hungry generation

Hungry generation

The Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy alias Haradhon Dhara, during the 1960s in Kolkata, India...

, Samir Roychoudhury

Samir Roychoudhury

Samir Roychowdhury , one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation 1961-1965 ,was born at Panihati, West Bengal, India in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers and musicians...

resided in this town for several decades after the 1950s.