COST SHEET

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DAY 1:- DHANBAD

ARRIVAL AT DHANBAD RAILWAY STATION AND A WARM WELCOME BY REPRESENTATIVE. TRANSFER TO HOTEL. AFTER BREAKFAST PROCEED FOR A FULL DAY SIGHTSEEING OF PLACES LIKE SHAKTI MANDIR(FAMOUS TEMPLE OF GODESS DURGA), BHUIPHORE MANDIR(DEDICTAED TO LORD SHIVA), BHATINDA FALL (A FAMOUS WATERFALL AND A PICNIC SPOT), JHARIA COAL MINE( A COAL MINE OPERATED BY BCCL) AND INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES(ASIA'S ONE ONE ONLE SCHOOL OF MINES). ENROUTE LUNCH. TRANSFER TO HOTEL FOR OVERNIGHT STAY.

DAY 2:- DHANBAD

AFTER BREAKFAST PROCEES FOR A FULL DAY SIGHT SEEING OF PLACES LIKE MAITHON DAM( A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION, HAVING A LOVELY SCENIC BEAUTY), TOPCHANCHI (HAVING MINDBLOWING GREEENRY AND LAKES). EVENING FREE FOR LEISURE, OVERNIGHT STAY AT HOTEL.

DAY 3:-DHANBAD

AFTER BREAKFAST PROCEED FOR PARASNATH (57.5 KMS. FROM DHANBAD) WHERE 20 OF THE 24 JAIN TIRTHANKARS ATTAINED MOKSHA(PEOPLE HAVE AN OPTION TO PARIKRAMA OF SHIKHARJEE MOUNTAIN AND PARASNATH HILL AND VISIT VARIOUS TEMPLES ON THE TRIAL SUCH AS Pushpadanta,Padmaprabha,Munisuvrata, Chandraprabha,  Adinath, Anantanatha, Shitalanatha, Sambhavanatha,Vasupujya. RETURN BACK TO HOTEL. ENROUTE LUNCH. PROCEED TO DHANBAD RAILWAY STATION FOR ONWARDS JOURNEY.

MY EXPERIENCE

Dhanbad is a place of Vicious Natural attractions, a city of falls & coal capital of India. I have visited almost all the Places and felt the beauty from inside.The Captivating Falls of Dhanbad like Bhatinda fall adds a glitter to the beauty of Dhanbad. I enjoyed a lot at almost all the destinations. It was a Overwhelming experience. The lap of the nature calls again and again and one can never refuse to get over here. I wish to visit here again and again.

HOW TO REACH?

ROADWAYS:- You can easily get buses from various major cities of the Country. Such as Kolkata, Ranchi etc.

RAILWAYS:- The nearest railway station is Dhanbad which has Connectivity to Various Railway Stations Such as Ranchi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Delhi etc.

AIRPORT:- The nearest Airport is Birsa Munda Airport located in Hinno, which is approximately 171 kms, far away from the centre of the city. It is a domestic airport managed by Airport Authority of India. It is 37th busiest airport in India.

BHATINDA FALL

The Waterfall is near munidih, 14 km from Dhanbad railway station. Surrounded by greenery, this place draws lot of crowd specially in winter. It is famous picnic spot.

SHAKTI TEMPLE

Shakti Mandir is a famous temple of Godess Durga. Every day lots of people use to visit mandir to worship Maa Durga. You will find croud of people on Tuesday and Saterday, People from various lokality of Dhanbad use to visit for worship. Puja is completly based on world famous "Maa Vaisnoo Devi". In Navratra you will find heavy croud those days.

BHUIPHORE MANDIR

Bhuiphore Mandir is famous for Lord Shiva. It is famous that a Shivling of Lord Shiva has been come out from land. So it names come after that Bhumi-ko-Phor kar " Bhuiphore". This is also famous for Hindu marriage.

It is situated in Bhuiphore, at Dhanbad-Govindpur main road about 5 k.m. away from Railway Station.

Bhuiphore Temple

BALAJI MANDIR

Balaji Mandir is famous in South Indian Community of Dhanbad, It is beautifully constructed. Also famous as Manas Mandir, here you will find feeling of temple of south-indian. It is a temple of Lord Vishnnu ( Dahawatar)

It is situated in Jag Jivan nagar, near about 2 k.m. away from Railway Station.

Balaji Temple

Maithan Dam

Maithon Dam is located in Maithon which is about 48 kms from Dhanbad. Maithon Dam, is a popular tourist and travel destination & picnic spot in Dhanbad. Maithon is famous for the 165ft (50m) high river Dam & Asia's first underground hydroelectric power plant built on river Barakar, and a water reservoir which spans over 65 square kilometres. Nearby attractions- Dam, Deer Park, Kalyaneswari Temple, Shiv-Parvati Temple on Bhandar Pahar, Millenium Park, Hydel Power,Dam, Garh Panchkot, Jain Temple, Lameyar park. Maithon is termed as mother's abode. It is under constituency of Dhanbad district of state Jharkhand. Maithon Dam falls in Chota-Nagpur region. Beside Maithon flows the Barakar River, which is a tributary of river Damodar. On the river Barakar, there is Maithon hydroelectric project of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The Barakar River divides the border of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The place is quite interesting. On the right bank of Barakar, there is the Maithon Township, falls in Jharkhand. And on the left bank, there is Left Bank Colony, falls under Kalyaneswari region of West Bengal.

View of Maithan Dam

TOPCHANCHI

It is a small town located in Dhanbad district. Topchanchi is 40 km away from Dhanbad. Topchanchi lake is a famous place attracting thousands of tourists around the year. It is located on G.T road of NH-2. This place is surrounded with a mindblowing greenry,lakes, picnic spots which give a spectacular overwhelming experience to the tourists.

Lake view of  Topchachi

ISM (Indian School Of Mines)

The Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is an educational institute of India. It is located in the mineral-rich region of India, in the city of Dhanbad. It was established by British Indian Government on the lines of the Royal School of Mines - London, and was formally opened on 9 December 1926 by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India.It started as an institution to impart mining education, and has grown into a technical institution with various departments. ISM admits its undergraduate students through Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), previously IIT-JEE.

Entry gate of ISM

COAL FIELD FIRE

One of India's largest and most productive coal fields is also home to some of the longest-burning fires in the world.

About 70 fires have sprouted up at eastern India's Jharia coal fields, which cover more than 100 square miles and have been mined since the late 1800s. The first recorded coal fired broke out in 1916, and fires have burned there ever since.

It is just one of the thousands of coal fires that are burning around the world — a costly and dangerous phenomenon involving a fuel source that has helped power economic development but is under attack in the age of global warming.

A Coal Mine which frequently causes fire

India's government reportedly hopes to increase production at the fiery mine, even as representatives from New Delhi discuss the effects of carbon emissions on climate change at the COP21 summit in Paris. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly charged officials with putting out the fires at Jharia, in the hope of improving output. The government has already spent money to move villages and settlements away from the mines, and those costs are forecast to reach $1 billion, according to Reuters.

Flames at Jharia have been recorded reaching heights of 60 feet.

Many of the fires are believed to have started through spontaneous combustion or what is sometimes called self-heating,caused by the oxidation of minerals in the exposed coal. Much of the mining at Jharia is done at the surface, exposing the coal to open air. Certain varieties of coal contain minerals that heat up when they are exposed to oxygen; those minerals can in turn burst into flames.

More than 37 million tons of coal, worth billions of dollars, have been lost to fires at Jharia, and 1.4 billion more metric tonnes are inaccessible because they are blocked by fires.

Jharia Coal Mines

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BCCL (Bharat Coking Coal Limited), Dhanbad

BCCL is a Public Sector Undertaking engaged in mining of coal and allied activities. It occupies an important place in as much as it produces bulk of the coking coal mined in the country. BCCL meets almost 50% of the total prime coking coal requirement of the integrated steel sector. BCCL was incorporated in January, 1972 to operate coking coal mines operating in the Jharia & Raniganj Coalfields, taken over by the Govt. of India on 16th Oct,1971 to ensure planned development of the scarce coking coal resources in the country.

Front gate of BCCL

THE BLACK DIAMOND (COAL MINES) :-DHANBAD

Dhanbad is a city in the Indian state of Jharkhand, India. It is the second most populated city in Jharkhand. Dhanbad along with its urban areas population ranks 42nd in population amongst other cities in India.
Dhanbad is famous for its coal mining, has some of the largest mines in India and is called Coal Capital of India. Tata Steel,Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) and Indian Iron And Steel Company (IISCO) are some of the companies who operate coal mines in the district. The Indian School of Mines (ISM) is located in Dhanbad.
A large number of coal mines are located in JHARIA, which is 6 km far away from Dhanbad.                                              

A city view of Dhanbad

PARASNATH DIGAMBAR JAIN TEMPLE

Shikharji is one of the highest mountain of the Parasnath range in the Girdih District of Jharkhand. It is a place where 20 of the 24 Jain tirthankaras attained Moksha.

Facts Behind The Name

We can easily find the reference of Shikharji being as a tirtha in the Jnatradharmakatha which is one of the twelve core texts of Jainism. The nineteenth tirthankara, practiced samadhi. Shikharji is also mentioned in the Parsavanathacarita which is the Biography of Parsava written in 12th century.


The popularity of Shikharji as a site of pilgrimage followed that of Vulture Peak, Bihar where it is believed the Buddhist Sariputta attained enlightenment.


Jharkhand acquired Shikharji under the Bihar Land Reforms Act, leaving the rights of Jains in doubt. Use of Shikharji as a tourist destination also impacts on the religious beliefs of the Jain. Sports such as paragliding and parasailing may take place at Shikharji.

Approaches of Worship

A view of temple along with mountain

There is a option for Parikramaof the entire Parasnath Hill, a pilgrimage of 54 kilometres (34 mi). The parikrama path is throug the forest and is walking only.The pilgrimage to Shikharji is a round trip of 30 kilometre through the Madhuban forest. The section from Gandharva Nala stream to the summit is the most sacred to Jains. The pilgrimage is made on foot or by a litter or doli carried by a doliwallah along a concrete paved track. Along the track are shrines to each of the twenty four tirthankaras and vendors of tea, coffee, water, fruits and snacks.

Various Temples on the Trek

The temple at Shikharji is a new construction with some parts dating to the eighteenth century. However, the idol itself is very old. Various temples are situated along the trek including:-

• Ganadhara 
• Kunthunatha 
• Rishabhanan 
• Chandranan 
• Naminatha 
• Aranatha

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  A temple on the trek



• Māllīnātha 
• Shreyanasanatha 
• Pushpadanta 
• Padmaprabha 
• Munisuvrata 
• Chandraprabha 
• Adinath 
• Anantanatha 
• Shitalanatha 
• Sambhavanatha 
• Vasupujya 
• Abhinandananatha 
• Ganadhara

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  Inside view of Parasnath temple
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• Jal Mandir 
• Dharmanatha 
• Vardhaman 
• Varishen 
• Sumatinatha 
• Shantinatha 
• Mahavira 
• Suparshvanatha 
• Vimalanatha 
• Ajitanatha 
• Neminatha 
• Parshvanatha.

How to Reach?

You can easily Headover to this place because it is easily accesible through Roadways and Railways.


The nearest Railway station is Parasnath having connectivity to major Railway stations such as Delhi, kolkata, Ranchi, Dhanbad, e.t.c. From Parasnath Railway Station excellent modes of transportation are availiable by using which one can easily headover to "Madhuban"(A small village located in the foothills of mountain). From here the journey begins.

Parasnath Railway Station

By Airway; Nearest airport is Ranchi and 4 hour drive from Ranchi airport.

My Experience

Entrance of the temple

I recently visited this temple and had a overwhelming experience. This mountain along with its temples is full up of various temples which add divinity along with the adventurous activities include trekking. This Place is situated in the lap of nature which is also a major fact attracting the tourists. One can feel mental calmness and Peace and soothing mind. It is worth visiting.

Me inside the temple

ABOUT

Jharkhand also known as "city of falls" is a state in eastern India carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. The state shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttarpradesh and Chhatisgarh to the west, Odisha to the south, and West Bengal to the east. It has an area of 79,710 km2 (30,778 sq mi). The city of Ranchi is its capital while the industrial city of Jamshedpur is the most populous city of the state.

Fast Facts

• Area : 79,714 Sq. Km 
• Population : 27 million 
• Capital : Ranchi 
• Districts : 24 
• Airports : Ranchi (connected with Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Patna, Bangalore, Raipur & Chandigarh) 
• Climate : Pleasant and equable throughout the year. 
• Clothing : Summer - Light Cottons Winter - Heavy woolens. 
• Languages spoken: Santhali, Mundari, Kurukh, Khortha, Nagpuria, Sadri, Khariya, Panchparagnia, Ho, Karmali, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali 
• Best Time to visit : February to April

FACT SHEET(Data As Per 2001 Census)
Population	3,29,66,238
Male Population	1,69,31,812
Female Population	1,60,34,426
Density of Population	414 persons / Sq. KM
No. of Districts	24
No. of Sub divisions	38
No. of Blocks	260
No. of Villages	32620
National Highways	1844 KMs
State Highways	6880 KMs
Total Geographical Area	79.70 Lakh Hect

STATE ANIMAL :- ELEPHANT
STATE BIRD :- KOEL
STATE TREE :- SHAAL
STATE FLOWER :- PALASH

Climate

There are three well-defined seasons in Jharkhand. The cold-weather season, from November to February, is the most pleasant part of the year. High temperatures in Ranchi in December usually rise from about 50 °F (10 °C) into the low 70s F (low 20s C) daily. The hot-weather season lasts from March to mid-June. May, the hottest month, is characterized by daily high temperatures in the upper 90s F (about 37 °C) and low temperatures in the mid-70s F (mid-20s C).