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Sindri is an industrial township within the Dhanbad municipal limits of the Dhanbad District of Jharkhand state. Sindri was well known because of a large Fertilizer factory (Fertilizer Corporation of India - FCIL) conceived here in the early industrialized India. It was also known for few other companies situated here such as Associated Cement Companies (ACC), Coal Mines of Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCo), which has been taken over by The Steel Authority of India Limited SAIL and Projects & Development India Limited PDI and Coal Mines of The Bharat Coking Coal Limited BCCL, a subsidiary company of Coal India Limited CIL. Another subject of topographical importance is the Damodar river which acted both as source of water and electricity for the township. A hydro-power power project called Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is located here. DVC supplies eco-friendly electricity to some its neighbouring states like West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindri
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 23°39'52"N 86°29'26"E
- Dhanbad 23 km
- Bokaro Steel City 51 km
- Durgapur 75 km
- Jamshedpur 101 km
- Ranchi 131 km
- Kharagpur 159 km
- Kolkata 213 km
- Patna 268 km
- Khulna 316 km
- Siliguri 393 km
- PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENT INDIA LTD , SANTOSH KUMAR ENGINEER (INSTRUMENT) 0.1 km
- FCI Plant 0.5 km
- Sindri FCI 0.7 km
- ACC - SINDRI CEMENT WORKS 1 km
- Modernization plant 1.2 km
- Rohrabandh 1.2 km
- Domgarh 2 km
- PLAY GROUND 2.3 km
- TASRA COAL BLOCK , 2.4 km
- Settling tank Sindri Basti 2.5 km