Ranchi

Ranchi, the capital of newly formed state of Jharkhand is a mineral feeder for Indian industries. The city known for its pleasant climate has many tourist attractions like hills, waterfalls, temples and parks.

Demographics
As per 2001 census the population of Ranchi is above 2.7 million. The literacy rate is around 74% which is more than the national average of 59% and the sex ratio is 938. The rural sex ratio (972) is more than the urban sex ratio(878).

Climate Of Ranchi
Ranchi has cool and pleasant climate. Just like other parts of India it enjoys all the three major seasons- summer, winter and rainfall. The temperature ranges between 35°C to 20 °C during summer and 22°C to 10 °C in winter. The region gets enough rainfall mainly from Bay of Bengal monsoons.

How to reach Ranchi?
Ranchi is very well connected to different parts of India through well developed road, railways and airways network.

• Road : Ranchi has very good connectivity with different other cities of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa. It is connected with cities like Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Patna, Gaya, Kolkata, Asansol, Siliguri, Cuttack etc. The national highway number 3 and 4 strengthen its road transportation system. Government is also planning to connect Ranchi with other major district centers through 4 - laned track.
  
  
• Rail : Ranchi has good connectivity with all major centers in India. Some of the trains are:
  • Ranchi - Howrah Shatabdi
  • Ranchi - New Delhi Rajdhani Express
  • Hatia - Jammu Tawi Express
  • Hatia - Delhi Swarnajayanti Express
  • Hatia - Delhi Samaparka Kranti Express
  
  
• Air : From Bhagwan Birsa Munda Airport of Ranchi there are regular flights to Delhi, Patna, Mumbai, Raipur and Kolkata.

Tourist Destinations

Hills and Parks	Lakes	Religious Places
Deer Park	Hirni Falls	Surya Temple
Kanke dam	Sita Falls	Durga Badi
Ranchi Hill	Ranchi Lake	Pahari Temple
Rock Garden	Hundru Falls	Rajrappa Mandir
Tagore Hill	Dassam Falls	Jagannathpur Temple
Nakshatra Van	Rukka Dam	Ramakrishna Mission Ashram
Sidhu Kaanu Park	Jonha Falls
Dr. Zakhir Hussain Park	Dhurwa Dam
Birsa Zoological Park

Education
The educational network of Ranchi is very good. It has fine network of government and private run school and colleges. Most of the colleges of Ranchi comes under the jurisdiction of Ranchi university. The popular secondary level educational institution of Ranchi are:

• Delhi Public School, Ranchi
• St. Xavier's, Ranchi
• Loreto Convent, Ranchi
• St. Francis School
• Bishop Westcott Boys' School
• Yogoda Satsanga Vidyalaya, Jagganathpur
• Cambridge School,
• Kendriya Vidyalaya,
• St. Anthony's School, Ranchi
• Yogoda Satsanga Vidyalaya,
• Vivekananda Vidya Mandir,
• Kendriya Vidyalaya

The popular colleges of Ranchi included :

• Ranchi College
• St. Paul's College,
• Chhotanagpur Law College
• Ranchi Women's College
• Xavier Institute of Social Service
• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
• Post Graduate Departments of Ranchi University
• St. Xavier's College

Economy Of Ranchi
As Jharkhand is rich in minerals it has good industrial base. The availability of raw materials and supply of electricity enabled Jharkhand to have large number of manufacturing units like bio fertilizer m manufacturing plants, cable and wire industries, manufacturer and supply of railway telecommunication equipments, brick making units, handlooms, spinning mills, etc
Agriculturally too it Jharkhand is very sound. It grows large variety of vegetables. The vegetables of Ranchi is send to different parts of Jharkhand, Bihar and Calcutta.
Jharkhand also earns good amount of revenue through its tourism industry.

Important Industries in Ranchi
Ranchi has many industrial setups like :

• Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd( Dhurwa)
• CET, (SAIL)
• MTI (SAIL)
• MECON Ltd Doranda
• National Institute of Foundry Forge Technology Hatia.