Jamalpur, Bihar
Jamalpur, Bihar
Jamalpur | |
|---|---|
city | |
 | |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 96,659 |
Jamalpur is a city and a municipality in Jamalpur in the Indian state of Bihar.
Jamalpur, the name literally means beautiful (Jamal-) town (-pur). And that is a literal description of the place. Picturesque and secluded, the verdant landscape has its share of hills, lakes and seasonal waterfalls. Jamalpur is best known as a very large workshop on the East Indian Railway, employing over 12,000 people at one time. The town was established during the British Raj and the cultural hub at that time was the Railway Institute. The Railway Institute was huge - it had its own movie theatre, a six-lane swimming pool, four tennis courts, two billiard rooms and a bowling lawn. Its dances were renowned and railway folk came from all over the East India Railway (EIR) to attend.
Geography
Jamalpur is located at 25°18′N 86°30′E / 25.3°N 86.5°E.[1] It has an average elevation of 151 metres (495 feet).
The city is in the Munger district. Munger is 8 km North West of Jamalpur. There is a road as well as a rail link between the two towns. It is an overnight journey from Calcutta.
The nearest airport is at Patna, around four hours from Jamalpur by rail. Kolkata is the nearest airport to the east from which Jamalpur can be reached by Rail. Jamalpur also has a small airstrip.
Demographics
As of 2001[update] India census,[2] Jamalpur had a population of 98,743. Males constitute 54 of the population and females 48%. Jamalpur has an average literacy rate of 79%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 85%, and female literacy is 73%. In Jamalpur, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Landmarks
Madras Coffee House
There used to be a small shop selling sweet meats like jalebis which was a half a century old. The Madras Coffee House caters to food aficionados. It has a small accommodation for two people and has a basic telephone booth. Not intended for soft tourists, this place is more for people who have come to visit Jamalpur for railways or other nostalgic purposes.
Hotel Yatrik
This is a very famous hotel at Jamalpur(west). It has a very good living & dining accommodation for the visitors
Hotel HillView
This is a six story hotel. have a very good accommodation facility for visitor.
Hotel Samrat Palace
This is an Eight story well furnish hotel and having its own Darbar Hall.
BHAWANI ELECTRONICS
This is well known shop for electronics items. Jamalpur is also well known for education some good schools like saraswati vidya mandir,NDA,DPS,Central school,Railway school....... It is also a religious place some famous temples are panchmukhi mandir near temprory hart ,Baridurga in bari bazar,sani mandir,kali4,in daulatpur Gayatrimandir is famous many people came two times in a year 1.In Ramnavmi and 2.in vijaya dashmi. It is also famous for railway quaters east colony,rampur colony, temprory hart ,daulatpur colony.
Luggage Corner
This is a very famous luggage shop of Jamalpur. This shop is very old, here people can get variety of luggage like VIP, ARISTOCRAT, SAFARI, etc.
Geetobitan
An excellent quarter century old music school near Hari Sabha being run single handedly by a senior lady with a pronounced handicap. Most of the railway men's children pursue music, dance and arts at this beginners place starting from as young as two. Surprisingly it is just the goodwill and the basic infrastructure with some local help that is keeping it going. Good place for stimulating discussions on Indian classical Music.
JSA Ground:Stadium
One of the best maintained small stadiums in the state, has seen a number of football matches held between different teams in the eastern region of India compete with each other over the better half of the last century.
Pir Baba
The name of Jamalpur comes from Pir Jamaluddin whose grave lies at this holy place and no visit to Jamalpur is complete without paying an obeisance at this holy place on Golf Road.A must visit on Fridays
Machli Talab
Yogashram
This was the first full-fledged railway workshop facilities in India, set up on Feb. 8, 1862 by the East Indian Railway. (There was an earlier attempt to set up workshop facilities at Howrah, but it proved unsuccessful because of problems with procuring supplies and getting skilled labour.) The Jamalpur site was chosen for its proximity both to the Sahibganj loop (which was the main trunk route at the time), and to the communities of gunsmiths and other mechanical craftsmen in Bihar who would prove to be adept at picking up the skills required in a railway workshop.
Another, possibly apocryphal account, though, has it that one of the Agents of the EIR Mr D W Campbell, was annoyed that the fitters and workmen of the then Howrah workshop were spending too much time away from their work in places of recreation in Howrah, and resolved to move the workshop facilities to a place far away where there would be no such distractions.
At first the Jamalpur shops were merely repairing locomotives and also assembling locomotives from parts salvaged from other, damaged locomotives. By the turn of the century, however, they had progressed to producing their own locomotives. The first one, CA 764 'Lady Curzon', was produced in 1899.
Jamalpur has always had extensive workshop facilities. In 1893, the first railway foundry in India was set up there. It also had a boiler workshop for repairing and building boilers. Today it has foundry and metallurgical lab facilities, extensive machine tool facilities, etc., in addition a captive power plant of 5MVA, making it fairly self-contained. It used to have a rolling mill of its own (set up in 1870, now closed - the Rolling Mill and the Nut & Bolt Shop were closed down in 1984).
In addition to various repairs of wagons, coaches, cranes and tower cars, and locomotives, Jamalpur Workshop also undertakes repair and (small-scale) production of permanent-way fixtures. It also manufactures some tower cars (Mark II, Mark III) and break-down cranes of 10, 20, and 140 tonne capacities, besides various kinds of heavy-duty lifting jacks.
Finally, it also manufactures wheelsets for coaches and wagons. In the past it was a significant supplier of cast-iron sleepers as well. Starting in 1961 it produced several rail cranes. It has also produced electric arc furnaces, ticket printers and other ticket machines (slitting, counting, and chopping). The high-capacity synchronized lifting jacks known as 'Jamalpur Jacks' were also produced by this workshop.
The school attached to the Jamalpur workshops eventually became the IR Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
This is the hostel and club used by the Special Class Railway Apprentices
Golf Course
Just down the Gymkhana avenue is the golf course that is frequented by the Railway and Army officers. The annual ITC Golf tournament is held here.
The golf course also has the grave of an Englishman who was killed by a tiger. The grave of the tiger is not very far away.
Territorial Army
![[icon]](/enwiki/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2007) |
North Tank
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2007) |
Waterfall The waterfall is not a regular feature during the rainy season and usually a deer species known as neelgai in the local dialect is found near the same. The waterfall is approachable from the water works which supplies the railway colony.This waterfall is on a decline and the natural beauty is slowly tarnished as a result of unbridled blasting at the stone quarries and also due to widespread deforestation for firewood.
| This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2007) |
Jamalpur Workshops
How it was conceived and born Some times a question haunts the mind why a place like Jamalpur was selected as a site for EIR Company's Locomotive Workshops.
Jamalpur was far from the Bengal and Bihar coalfields, which was the most important criterion for selecting the place for locomotive workshops in the 1860s. The place is also off the mainline of EIR. The most important fatal draw back was the place has no natural water supply. This can be construed as a great blunder on the part of EIR.
The probable reasons for selecting the place may be listed as follows:-
Notables
Anand Marg Movement The movement was founded by a Jamalpur native. In 1955, P.R. Sakar left his job as a railway official and formed the first chapter of Ananda Marg ("Path of Bliss") in Jamalpur, Bihar, India. He started to train missionaries to spread his teaching of "self-realization and service to humanity" (which became the motto of Ananda Marga) into India and the rest of the world, and in 1962 initiated the first monk (called Dada which means elder brother) of Ananda Marg.
The mission of Ananda Marga is to help individuals achieve complete self-realization and to build a social structure in which the physical, mental and spiritual needs of all people can be fulfilled. Ananda Marga contributes to the process of individual development by providing instruction in meditation and other yoga practices on a non-commercial basis.
Notre Dame Academy
Education at Jamalpur city
Railway high school is the one of oldest high school in Jamalpur. And this a school for Railway Employee children.
Norte Dame Academy is having the HO of india in Jamalpur. It is a U.K Based School and also having a good quality of study. And many students from this school have reached prestigious positions in India.
There are so meny well known school's like
Central School (K.V) D.A.V. Public School Central Public School Saraswati Vidya Mandir etc.
Shopping
Jamalpur consists of a lot of stuff for shopping. It offers the most trendy, fashionable and all other varieties of clothes and fashion accessories. And of course for other things one just doesn't need to worry. The most offering markets are Raja Bazar(Jublee Well), Wighte House, Sadar Bazar, Durgasthan.. Some sops name -mahavir vastralaya,aakashdip,shyamastore,prabhat vastralaya,shree granthalaya,kagaj kalam,alpha,student corner,Nutan pustak bhandar,kishor pustak bhandar,bharti pustak bhandar,gift centre,krishna medical hall,manoj pustak bhandar,and some other good shops.
Theaters
- Avantika
- Vaidyanath
- Railway Cinema
Notes
References
External links