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Singrauli at a Glance
History:
The area in the eastern part of the state of MP and the adjoining southern part of Sonebhadra district in the state of UP is collectively known as Singrauli. Singrauli is emerging as India’s Energy capital, the place earlier known as Shringavali, named after the sage Shringi, was once upon a time covered with dense and unnavigable forests and inhabited by wild animals. The place was considered so treacherous that it was used by the Kings of Rewa State, who ruled the area till 1947, as an open air prison for detaining errant civilians and officers.
Just two generations ago, small holders were tending their parcels of land here, and the original inhabitants were gathering honey and herbs in the forest. In the late fifties, a large scale dam banked up the water of the River Rihand. The dam known as Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar was inaugurated by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1962. Later, rich coal deposits spread over an area of 2200 km² in the state of M.P. (eastern part of Sidhi District) and U.P. (southern part of Sonebhadra District) were discovered close to the artificial lake that could be used to generate electricity.
On 24 may 2008, Madhya Pradesh government has declared Singrauli as its 50th district by separating from Sidhi with 3 tehsils viz. Singrauli, Chitrangi and Deosar.On 1st April 2012 two new tehsils are added viz. Mada and Sarai.
This area has group of Rock cut caves made in 7-8th century A.D. in Mada which is 32 km from waidhan.Mada is situated in Mada tehsil of Singrauli district.Famous caves include Vivah Mada, Ganesh Mada and Shankar mada, Jaljalia and Ravan Mada.These caves are not only a beautiful examples of rock cut caves but it is spendid also from the point of view of iconography.
Besides rock cut caves, singrauli also has Painted rock shelters. Ranimachi, Dholagiri and Goura pahad lies in Chitrangi tehsil of Singrauli.These painted rock shelters belong to the Mesolithic age of Microlithic implememts culture.These paintings are representative of the early history of Indian art.The paintings are made of red Ochre.
Connectivity:
By Air:
- Varanasi Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur – Distance -250Kms Approx
- Khajuri-Khutar airport near waidhan (under construction) , Distance -30Kms Approx
By Rail - Distance - 2Kms:
- The following trains originate/pass through Singrauli area.
- Singrauli- Jabalpur inter-city express via New Katni Jn. (Daily)
- Singrauli - Varanasi Inter-city express via Chopan, Chunar (Daily)
- Singrauli - Patna Link Express via Garhwa Road, Gaya (Daily)
- Singrauli - Bareilly Triveni express Via Allahabad, Lucknow (Tri-weekly)
- Jabalpur - Howrah Shaktipunj express via Singrauli Barkakana Jn. (Daily)
- Howrah - Bhopal express via Barkakana, Singrauli, Damoh (Weekly)
- Ahmadabad - Kolkata express via Ajmer, Ujjain, Bhopal, Singrauli (weekly, extension from Ajmer to Ahmadabad from Feb 18th 2013)
- Ajmer - Kolkata express via Kota, Damoh, Singrauli Barkakana (weekly)
- Kolkata - Ajmer express via Tata Nagar, Barkakana, Singrauli Kota (Weekly)
- Katni - Chopan overnight fast passenger via Singrauli (Daily)
- Chopan - Katni Bina passenger via Singrauli, Damoh (Daily)
- Shaktinagar - Bareilly Triveni express via Allahabad, Lucknow (4 Days-week)
- Shaktinagar - Chopan passenger via Anpara, Obra Dam (Daily)
By Road:
- Singrauli district has good connectivity to nearby major cities.
- The nearest city to Singrauli is Varanasi 208 km by road, nearest railway junction is Singrauli junction (the one platform junction between Katni-Chopan lines), it is 768 km from Bhopal. The nearest airport is at Varanasi and one at Mayurpur at sonebhadra District.
- This Air strip is owned by Hindalco.
- Private transport facilities are also available in this area and it is directly connected with Chattishgarh (Ambikapur), Maharashtra (Nagpur) and UttarPradesh (Varanasi) by road.
- Singrauli is approximately 50 km from Renukoot which has train connectivity with Jammu Tawi, Amritsar, Delhi, Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
Industries
All major companies operating in Singrauli are giants of Indian energy industry. The operations of companies include mining of coal to power generation. In recent past, several private companies have also joined the league of companies operating in Singrauli. It is expected by 2017, that Singrauli would feed around 35,000 MW of electrical power to the grid alone.
Major Companies Operating or Coming up at Singrauli are:
- Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station-SSTPS (NTPC)
- Vindhyachal Super thermal power project-VSTPP (NTPC)
- Rihand Super Thermal Power Project-RhSTPP (NTPC)
- Northern Coalfields Limited (a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd.)
- Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (Reliance power Ltd.)....UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Chitrangi Power Project (Reliance Power Ltd.)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Muher and Muher Amlori extension (Reliance)...UNDER DEVELOPMENT
- Mahan Super Thermal Power Project (Essar Global)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Mahan coal Limited (joint venture of Essar and Hindalco)...UNDER DEVELOPMENT
- Mahan Aluminium Limited-3.59 Lakh Aluminium smelter plant (Hindalco Industries Limited)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Mahan Captive Thermal Power Plant (Hindalco Industries Limited)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Jaypee Nigrie Super Thermal Power Project (Jaypee group)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- M.P. Jaypee Minerals (joint venture of M.P. govt. and jaypee group)...UNDER DEVELOPMENT
- A Power plant is going to be set at Koyalkhooth & Baheri by L&T Power...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- DB Power M.P.Limited (Dainik Bhaskar)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- Vindhyachal Pooling sub-station (Powergrid Corporation)...UNDERCONSTRUCTION
- BEML LIMITED (A Ministry of Defence Utk Company) – Sales & Service of HEMM
- VOLTAS LIMITED (A TATA Enterprise) Sales & Service of HEMM.
- Gmmco Limited ( A CK Birla Group Co) Sales & Service of HEMM
- Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.
- Daimler India (Sales , Service of Mercedes Tipping Trucks)
- Volvo India( Sales & Service of Tipping Trucks)
- Caterpillar Global Mining ( Sales, Service of HEMM
- MTU India ( Sales, Service of Engines)
- Cummins India ( Sales, Service of Engines)
Mining
All these Industrial developments have only been possible because Mother earth has blessed this part of the land with mineable reserves of Coal. Northern Coalfields Limited, the PSU coal major and the highest profit making subsidiary of Coal giant “Coal India Ltd” is the only coal feeder to these power, chemical and cement plants located within the vicinity of Singrauli Industrial Zone. With many billion tonnes of coal being mined for the last 35-40 yrs, it still sits on a geographical reserve of more raw material area. However, there is concern over possible deforestation, and environmental loss from mineral development.
Social responsibility played by industries at Singrauli
With Singrauli being scattered in M.P and U.P there is no real life development with the common people. The entire credits on developments in this zone directly goes to the host of Corporate honchos Viz; NCL[disambiguation needed] Singrauli, NTPC, Hindalco Industries. The real development is still to be done, with investment by energy and mining companies worth more than INR 500 Billion coming up in this area and airport by Reliance Singrauli will see a facelift in 10 to 15 years.
Education
- Singrauli is fast emerging as a major educational hub in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Major Schools in and around Singrauli:
- DAV Public School(Waidhan, Nigahi,bina,surya vihar)
- St. Joseph's School(Shaktinagar,Waidhan)
- De Paul(Vindhyanagar)
- Christ Jyoti School(Jayant,Singrauli)
- St. Francis Rihand(Anpara)
- Aditya Birla Public school (Renukut , Renusagar)
- Kendriya Vidyalaya(Singrauli,Jayant,Shaktinagar)
- Saraswati Shishu Mandir(Amlori,Jayant,Singrauli,Dudhichua
- Vivekanand vidhyalaya(Nigahi,Shaktinagar)
- Rest are state govt. School
- Saraswati shishu mardir jayant,vindhyanagar, singrauli, baidhan, deosar
- Shastrigi(sandeep chaturvedi)eng. midium school(khdaura, deosar)
Major Colleges:
- 7 Government degree colleges including 2 women colleges
- Govt. Polytechnic college,Waidhan
- I.T.I.Singrauli
- I.T.I.Deosar
- Awadhoot Singh Sawak Ram Degree College Banauli,Distt-Singauli(M.P.)
- Singrauli Institute of Technical education(SITE)Singra
- Mayaram mahavidhyalaya, Singrauli
- Amrit VidhyapithVindhyanagar
- Sai mahavidhyalayaVindhyanagar
- Rajiv Gandhi collegeWaidhan
Performing and Learning art schools:
- Sanskriti the Indian classical and contemporary Dance school(Khadia)
- Sri Lalji Mhasangit Vidyalay(Jayant)
- Both are affiliated by Prayag Sangit Samithi, Allahabad