Ramagundam
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| ?Ramagundam Andhra Pradesh • India |
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| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Area • Elevation |
• 179 m (587 ft) |
| District(s) | Karimnagar |
| Population | 235,540 (2001) |
Coordinates: Ramagundam (including Godavarikhani Town) is a city, mandal and municipality in the Karimnagar district of northern Andhra Pradesh, India.[1]
It has a population of 235,540 (agglomeration 236,623 (2001 census).
The town Ramagundam gets its name from combination of two words (Rama + Gundam). A famous temple of Hindu god Lord Rama is situated in old part of the town and Gundam means water springs.
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[edit] Geography
Ramagundam is located at .[2] It has an average elevation of 179 meters (590 feet).
[edit] Industries
Ramagundam is situated in the Godavari Valley coalfields and has one of India's largest thermal power stations, run by NTPC. Ramagundam is considered as Manchester of India in light of the companies around it . Some of them are FCI: Fertilizer Corporation of India, Kesoram Cement, Basanth Nagar, NTPC (RSTPS-Ramagundam super thermal power station) sourcing 2600 MW of power 24/7, and APSEB unit Ramagundam.
Around 24 units of coal mines belt in Godavarikhani stretching 25 km including opencasts (state of the art proclainers) are used in these open coal mines. Pruthvi Banjan is the name given by Late Shri N. T. Rama Rao, the then Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, to the thermal station for Godavarikhani community.
There are many factories around this place that take the raw material from the coalmines and prepare carbon derivatives.
River Godavari flowing through this region gave this a strategic location for all these companies providing employment to more than 15,000 people. With the lack of environment safety plans (a controversial topic), this place has become a mayhem for all health related issues across all the people in this community. The temperature is hotter than most places in India. A normal temperature is 40 degrees Celsius.
NTPC[3] has developed a technique to reduce the temperature by reducing the carbon dioxide in its emissions and helped reduce the average temperature by 2 degrees Celsius from last one decade.
NTPC has a policy of hiring full time employer according to the production capacity. For the records its present employers should not be more than 2600.
NTPC Ramagundam is considered to be one of the best in the nation (among 24locations). NTPC is divided into 5 regions: Ramgundam falls in southern region along with Simhadri and Kayankulam. This provides major chunk of power supply to Dadar Nagar Haveli, Daman & Dui, PGCIL (Powergrid Corporation of India Limited [4]). Less than 25% of the power is provided to the State of Andhra Pradesh More than 38000 crores are invested to build this massive organisation which provides employment to more than 6000. Recently 7th unit was added (August 2004) with additional capacity of 500 MW. NTPC Ramagundam has exemplary vision for the environment which includes afforestation, monitoring environment impacts using NRSA satellite imaging services, Ash pond treatment, Ash brick plants, awareness of environment to the local community. RSTPS has less than 10 disturbances in 2005-2006 and none lasted more than a day.[5]
Godavarikhani and Jyothinagar are the two major Telecom Exchange facilities available around this region.
[edit] Demographics
As of 2001 India census[6], Ramagundam had a population of 250,540. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Ramagundam has an average literacy rate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 56%. In Ramagundam, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
[edit] Transport
Ramagundam is connected to major parts of the State through a well connected road, Rajiv Road (Freeway of Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi) in remembrance of Gandhi family and the Party he hailed from (Congress I). APSRTC is well connected across all communities of this region[7]
Ramagundam is connected through the South Central Railway which connects to all the four metropolitan cities of India. Most of the trains passing through this route stop at Ramagundam.
Ramagundam Airport code is RMD. The nearest airport (other than unused RDM) is around 250 km (Hyderabad-HYD) away and connected through Highway NH-7 via Karimnagar and Siddipet.
[edit] Education
- Government PG college.
- Kendriya vidyalaya.
- Sachdev.
- St Claire Convent School.
- Sacred Heart School.
- Chinmaya Vidayalaya.
- ST.Pauls English Medium High School
- Sindhura College of Engineering &Technology(est:2001)
- Vivekananda Institute of Technology and Science(est:2004)
[edit] Notes
- ^ List of Sub-Districts. Census of India. Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics.Ramgundam
- ^ NTPC Power Plants - Ramagundam
- ^ Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
- ^ http://www.sreb.kar.nic.in/1st%20PROT%20AGENDA.pdf
- ^ Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns. (Provisional). Census Commission of India. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
- ^ Karimnagar
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