West Singhbhum district

West Singhbhum is one of the districts of state,. It came into being in, when the old district was bifurcated. is the district headquarters.

The district is bounded on north by district, on the east by  district, on the south by,  and  districts of  and on the west by  district of Jharkhand and Sundargarh district of Orissa.

West Singhbhum district is full of dense forests and hills and harbors a variety of and.

The district contains large deposits of iron ore which are increasingly being mined to feed the growing demand for this raw material primarily used in steel production.

Due to the lopsided development in this district wherein large quantities of mineral wealth are being mined with absolutely no benefit to the local population,the district is increasingly coming under the influence of the Naxalite movement.A rapidly deteriorating infrastructure in the form of broken or non-exisistant roads has added to the Naxalite's cause.

The district is a microcosm of what modern day development in India is all about:Benefits of development accumulating in the hands of private corporations and their employees to some extenct with no trickle down effect for the common masses.

Chakradhrpur is a town of West Singhbhum. It is a small town with a population of 50000 population. It is divisional headquarters of south estern railway (from Kharagpur to Rourkela).

External link

 * West Singhbhum District Administration

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