Ranchi

Ranchi is the capital city of Jharkhand state, India. Ranchi was the center of the Jharkhand movement for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar. Jharkhand was formed in 1999 by carving out the tribal districts of South Bihar. As a part of Bihar, it used to be the summer capital of the British due to its cool weather.

It is not very far from Rajrappa, another seminal place in the state of Jharkhand.

Ranchi has one of the largest facility for mentally-challenged patients at Kanke.

Contents
1 Geography & climate
2 Education

2.1 Schools
2.2 Colleges

3 Trade, commerce & industry
4 Tourist attractions
5 Ranchi - infoLines

5.1 Major roads
5.2 Major intersections
5.3 Bus terminus
5.4 Theaters

6 External links

Geography & climate

Chhottanagpur consists of three smaller plateaus of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Koderma, and city of Ranchi is located at an altitude of 654 meters above sea level in the plateau of Ranchi. Ranchi was once the summer capital of Bihar. Subarnarekha river flows by the side of the city. The city as well as its immediate hinterland is endowed with several scenic spots.

Ranchi has a salubrious climate. Temperature ranges from maximum 37 to 20 °C during summer, and maximum 22 to 10 °C during winter. The annual rainfall is about 1530 mm.

Education

Ranchi has a good a network of government and privately run schools, although standard of teaching considerably vary from school to school. Most of the government-run schools in Ranchi are affiliated to Jharkhand School Examination Board, whereas most of the private schools are affiliated to ICSE and CBSE boards. A number of schools are run by convents or by the Jesuits missionaries of the Roman Catholic, Gossenor, Evangelical and Lutheran Churches and the Church of North India.

Most of the colleges and institutions of education of Ranchi are under the jurisdiction of Ranchi University.

As the institutions of higher studies fall short of city’s requirement, many students, after completing schooling in the state, move away to places like New Delhi, Karnataka and several other locations for higher technical and non-technical studies.

Ranchi has many schools and institutions of higher learning:

Schools

Colleges

Trade, commerce & industry

On account of its historical position as an important administrative and military base of the eastern India during the British Raj, Ranchi developed as an important centre of trade and commerce, including a traditional base for sericulture and manufacture of shellac. Villages around Ranchi has been described as the 'vegetable bowl' of Jharkhand and truckloads of green vegetables are transported from the city to different parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, as also to Calcutta.

After India gained independence, Ranchi continued to grow and a number of industrial facilities were located in and around the city, and it emerged as an important industrial center. Along with other two industrial townships of Jamshedpur and Bokaro, it completes the industrial structure of Jharkhand. Major techno-industrial facilities of Ranchi include Heavy Engineering Corporation, Mecon, SAIL's R&D Facility, High Tension Insulator factory, CCL, CMPDI, IICM, USHA MARTIN,[USHA BELTRON]] and Shipping Corporation of India

Tourist attractions

Ranchi - infoLines

Major roads

Major intersections

Bus terminus

Theaters

External links


State and Union Territory capitals of India

Agartala • Aizawl • Bangalore • Bhopal • Bhubaneswar • Chandigarh • Chennai (Madras) • Daman • Dehradun • Dispur • Gandhinagar • Gangtok • Hyderabad • Imphal • Itanagar • Jaipur • Kavaratti • Kohima • Kolkata (Calcutta) • Lucknow • Mumbai (Bombay) • New Delhi • Panaji • Patna • Pondicherry • Port Blair • Raipur • Ranchi • Shillong • Shimla • Silvassa • Srinagar • Thiruvananthapuram

See also: Ranchi, 1999, Agartala, Aizawl, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bihar (India), Birla Institute of Technology