Jamshedpur - the Steel City

About Jamshedpur City

Jamshedpur, the Steel City of India is India's first beautifully planned industrial township and is set amidst amazingly scenic surroundings. Jamshedpur is overpowered by two rivers, Subarnarekha and Kharkai, which flow on either side of the city. Also called Tata Nagar, the town owes its rapid economic develpment to the industrial giant, The Tata Group. Jamshedpur was known as Sakchi earlier, yet it was in the year 1904, when Jamshedji Tata decided to put up the country's first steel plant here, and this former city of Bihar honoured Jamshedji by naming it Jamshedpur. The city grew rapidly and today it's a modern township with many educational institutes and all the modern facilities of urban life.

As per the study and sources, Lord Chelmsford named the city Jamshedpur in honour of its founder, Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata in 1919, whose birthday is celebrated on 3 March as Founder's Day.It was J. N. Tata who had thought of setting of a great city in the area.

The city has several nicknames including 'Steel City' (which was referenced during TATA Steel's 'Green City - Clean City - Steel City' campaign). It is also known as 'Tatanagar' after the name of its railway station Tatanagar Railway Station.People do call Jamshedpur as 'Tata' also due to the presence of the significant Tata Steel in the city.

The people of Jamshedpur proudly call themselves as Jamshedpur-ians. A lot of pride and emotion is associated with this word. There also exists a small industrial town, Adityapur, on the outskirts of Jamshedpur having some of the most important small and large scale industries. Adityapur was developed because Jamshedpur needed room to expand and bear the burden of increasing growth and development in the region. Today, Adityapur is closely associated with Jamshedpur and the immaculate infrastructure makes the commuting among these cities an easy ride.

Jamshedpur has the advantage of its cosmopolitan society where there are people from every nook and corner of India. This makes the city very interesting, multi linguistic and multi cultured.