Adityapur is named after Raja Aditya Pratap Singh Deo,the last ruler of Saraikela

Saraikela

Saraikela, also spelled Seraikella, is the administrative headquarters of Saraikela Kharsawan District of Jharkhand. Earlier it was a municipality in Pashchimi Singhbhum districtin the Indian state of Jharkhand....

/Seraikella. It is today an industrial town/sister city, separated from the famous city of Jamshedpur by the Kharkai River

Kharkai River

The Kharkai River is a river in eastern India. It is one of the major tributaries of the Subarnarekha River.It arises in Mayurbhanj district, Orissa, on the north slopes of Darbarmela Parbat and the western slopes of Tungru Pahar, of the Simlipal Massif. It flows past Rairangpur and heads north...

. It lies in Seraikela Kharsawan district 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...

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Today it is considered as a part of Jamshedpur city. It is predominantly an industrial region and once held the record of being the largest industrial belt in Asia.

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Adityapur had a population of 2,10,521. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Adityapur has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 60% of the males and 40% of females literate. 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Geography

Kharkai river surrounds Adityapur from three sides (except west), and is connected with the well known Cosmopolitan City of Jamshedpur (famous for Tata Steel) through a small bridge over river of Kharkai (east of Adityapur).

Transport

Adityapur has got its own Railway Station (small), Radio Station (called All India Radio, Jamshedpur, 1584 kHz and Vividh Bharti FM at 100.8 MHz).

Economy

Adityapur is one of the largest Industrial Areas in India, and one Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is very soon coming up. and AIADA (Adityapur industrial dovelopment authority).

Education

There is a National Institute of Technology (NIT Jamshedpur), Government Polytechnic College, Al-kabir polytechnic, Indo Danish Tool Room and Training Centre for preparing technical hands.

Problems

Adityapur is rapidly growing terms of housing in addition to the small-mid-size industrial sector. Areas that need immediate attention are infrastructure (one additional bridge over Kharkai river, healthy availability of electricity for both industrial and residential use), facilities of drinking water and sanitation,medical facilities and entertainment.