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Jhumri Telaiya
Jhumri Telaiya (also spelled as Jhumri Tilaiya or Jhumri Talaiya) is a city in the Koderma subdivision of the Koderma District of Jharkhand, India. Jhumri Telaiya is also the most populus city in the Koderma District.
Jhumri is the name of the original village in the area, which has now become a neighbourhood of the city. The word "Telaiya" is the Hindi language word for a small lake (the Tilaiya Dam reservoir). Taal in Sanskrit means lake. Jhumari is also said to be a local folk dance. Jhumri may also stem from Jhoomar, similar to Jhumka, an ornamental earring.
Jhumri Telaiya was once a major mica mining center. While laying a railroad through Kodarma in the 1890s, the British first discovered vast mica deposits in the region. Mining started soon after and many mining houses were established:
were some of the top firms which operated in the area. The city once boasted of the highest number of phone connections and phone calls made in India. Most of the mica business was moved to government-owned corporations during 1973 - 1974, through a government venture called Bihar Mica Syndicate, which had mica mines in Sapahi, 40 km from Jhumri Telaiya. This government venture was renamed to Bihar State Mineral Development Corporation (BSMDC) and is now known as Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation. Most of the mica used to be exported to the USSR, for space and military equipment. The first firm to export mica was Birdhichand Bansidhar and later they set up their offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, etc. With the dissolution of the USSR and the discovery of a synthetic substitute for mica, the mining activity declined in the 1990s.[citation needed]
The city was earlier a part of Hazaribagh district and was transferred to the newly created Koderma district on 10 April 1994. Originally a part of the state of Bihar, Jhumri Telaiya became part of the newly formed Jharkhand state in 2000. On 8 December 2008, the Jhumri Telaiya Municipality was declared as a minor urban area.
Originally a little-known town, Jhumri Telaiya became famous in India in the 1950s owing to its connection with the radio channels Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and Vividh Bharati (a nationally broadcast radio service of the All India Radio). At a time when television and FM radio had not yet come to India, these afore-mentioned radio channels and their film-song-request programs were a national phenomenon. The largest number of requests from all over India for playing film songs addressed to these radio channels came from Jhumri Telaiya.
The trend started in the early 1950s, when a mica businessman named Rameshwar Prasad started mailing 20 - 25 film-song-requests to Radio Ceylon per day. Regularly hearing Barnwal's name on the radio inspired the paan-shop owner Ganga Prasad Magadhiya and electronics shop owner Nandlal Sinha to similarly mail a large number of song requests. The growing fame of these three Jhumri Telaiya residents led to the emergence of a song-request fad among the people of the town. Young listeners from the town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month. The radio listeners thus became familiar with the town of Jhumri Telaiya. In the 1980s, a radio listeners' club was formed in the town. Subsequently, other towns also started competing with Jhumari Telaiya by sending out large numbers of song requests. The fad declined as television gained popularity, and postal costs increased. Because of a large number of song requests and the town's unusual name, many listeners of Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and Vividh Bharti doubted its existence. Thus, "Jhumri Talaiya" came to be associated with any lesser-known or insignificant place. This reference is found in several Hindi movies and songs. For example, the movie Mounto (1975) features a song titled Mein To Jhumri Talaiya Se Aeyee Hoon ("I've come from Jhumri Talaiya"). In the film Sooryavansham, starring Amitabh Bachchan as a bus conductor, he issues a ticket to Jhumri Telayia.
Jhumri Telaiya is located in the Damodar River valley, North Chotanagpur Division. It has an average elevation of 383 m (1,257 ft). It is situated about eight kilometres from Koderma. Both the towns are closely linked.some day going to be one big urban zone in Jharkhand. The entire town is divided by the grand cord line of Eastern Railway, which passes through the middle of the town.
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Jhumri Telaiya
Jhumri Telaiya (also spelled as Jhumri Tilaiya or Jhumri Talaiya) is a city in the Koderma subdivision of the Koderma District of Jharkhand, India. Jhumri Telaiya is also the most populus city in the Koderma District.
Jhumri is the name of the original village in the area, which has now become a neighbourhood of the city. The word "Telaiya" is the Hindi language word for a small lake (the Tilaiya Dam reservoir). Taal in Sanskrit means lake. Jhumari is also said to be a local folk dance. Jhumri may also stem from Jhoomar, similar to Jhumka, an ornamental earring.
Jhumri Telaiya was once a major mica mining center. While laying a railroad through Kodarma in the 1890s, the British first discovered vast mica deposits in the region. Mining started soon after and many mining houses were established:
were some of the top firms which operated in the area. The city once boasted of the highest number of phone connections and phone calls made in India. Most of the mica business was moved to government-owned corporations during 1973 - 1974, through a government venture called Bihar Mica Syndicate, which had mica mines in Sapahi, 40 km from Jhumri Telaiya. This government venture was renamed to Bihar State Mineral Development Corporation (BSMDC) and is now known as Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation. Most of the mica used to be exported to the USSR, for space and military equipment. The first firm to export mica was Birdhichand Bansidhar and later they set up their offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, etc. With the dissolution of the USSR and the discovery of a synthetic substitute for mica, the mining activity declined in the 1990s.[citation needed]
The city was earlier a part of Hazaribagh district and was transferred to the newly created Koderma district on 10 April 1994. Originally a part of the state of Bihar, Jhumri Telaiya became part of the newly formed Jharkhand state in 2000. On 8 December 2008, the Jhumri Telaiya Municipality was declared as a minor urban area.
Originally a little-known town, Jhumri Telaiya became famous in India in the 1950s owing to its connection with the radio channels Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and Vividh Bharati (a nationally broadcast radio service of the All India Radio). At a time when television and FM radio had not yet come to India, these afore-mentioned radio channels and their film-song-request programs were a national phenomenon. The largest number of requests from all over India for playing film songs addressed to these radio channels came from Jhumri Telaiya.
The trend started in the early 1950s, when a mica businessman named Rameshwar Prasad started mailing 20 - 25 film-song-requests to Radio Ceylon per day. Regularly hearing Barnwal's name on the radio inspired the paan-shop owner Ganga Prasad Magadhiya and electronics shop owner Nandlal Sinha to similarly mail a large number of song requests. The growing fame of these three Jhumri Telaiya residents led to the emergence of a song-request fad among the people of the town. Young listeners from the town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month. The radio listeners thus became familiar with the town of Jhumri Telaiya. In the 1980s, a radio listeners' club was formed in the town. Subsequently, other towns also started competing with Jhumari Telaiya by sending out large numbers of song requests. The fad declined as television gained popularity, and postal costs increased. Because of a large number of song requests and the town's unusual name, many listeners of Radio Ceylon/ Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and Vividh Bharti doubted its existence. Thus, "Jhumri Talaiya" came to be associated with any lesser-known or insignificant place. This reference is found in several Hindi movies and songs. For example, the movie Mounto (1975) features a song titled Mein To Jhumri Talaiya Se Aeyee Hoon ("I've come from Jhumri Talaiya"). In the film Sooryavansham, starring Amitabh Bachchan as a bus conductor, he issues a ticket to Jhumri Telayia.
Jhumri Telaiya is located in the Damodar River valley, North Chotanagpur Division. It has an average elevation of 383 m (1,257 ft). It is situated about eight kilometres from Koderma. Both the towns are closely linked.some day going to be one big urban zone in Jharkhand. The entire town is divided by the grand cord line of Eastern Railway, which passes through the middle of the town.
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