Dalli-Rajhara is a town and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Balod district Balod district is a district within the state of Chhattisgarh. Its headquarters are in Balod. It has a District & Sessions Court which was inaugurated on 2 October 2013 by Shri Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha. Shri Deepak Kumar Tiwari joined as the f ...

in the state of

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. Dalli Rajhara is home of iron ore captive mines for Bhilai Steel Plant, the largest integrated steel plant in India. Dalli mines deposit was discovered by

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, the first Indian graded officer of the Geological Survey of India around 1900.

Geography

Dalli Rajhara is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Demographics

As of the census of India 2011 population of Dalli Rajhara is 44,363. It has just 11,018 Households including House-less which shows declining trend of population. As of the 2001 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Dalli-Rajhara had a population of 50,615. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Dalli-Rajhara has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. Male literacy is 77% and, female literacy is 58%. In Dalli-Rajhara, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Mining township

Dalli-Rajhara is the twin mine and part of the Rajhara group of mines. These are captive iron ore mines for Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP)a SAIL enterprise. Iron ores mined from the area are of the

hematite Hematite (), also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils. Hematite crystals belong to the rhombohedral lattice system which is designated the alpha polymorph of . ...

and

magnetite Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula . It is one of the iron oxide, oxides of iron, and is ferrimagnetism, ferrimagnetic; it is attracted to a magnet and can be magnetization, magnetized to become a ...

variety. The other mines in the neighbourhood produce dolomite, lime and other raw materials which go into steel production. Dalli-Rajhara is about 83 km south of Durg and comes under the south-eastern section of the Indian Railways. While both Dalli and Rajhara have mines, the residential area is predominantly in Rajhara. Dalli-Rajhara is a self-sufficient township with BSP having set up hospitals and a considerable number of educational institutes. Dalli-Rajhara rose to prominence as a result of the labour rights movement in the 1970s. The mines are open cast mines and the poignant view as one enters the township at dusk is that of thousands of glittering lights on the hills. The expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry had met during the last three days to clear a shelf of stranded projects entailing an investment of nearly Rs 80,000 crore. The EAC has cleared 12 of these projects. The committee is expected to meet shortly again to take a call on the remaining projects. Among those cleared on Saturday are SAIL's proposed 1 million tonne per annum pellet plant along with upstream slime beneficiation facilities at its Dalli-Rajhara iron ore mine in Chhattisgarh.

Transport

This area is connected via rail and road with its district

balod Balod is a city on the banks of the River Tandula and a nagar palika in Balod district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. Balod is 44 km from Dhamtari and 58 km from Durg. Balod has one college, one court, one community health cent ...

. It is well connected by bus to the Durg and Bastar region. The road is in quite good shape. Only one passenger train runs between Dalli and Durg. Much development is due on the rail connectivity front. There is an ongoing rail link with

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Extending rail transport

Union

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of 2012–13 has proposed new links to existing

Durg Durg is a city in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, east of the Shivnath River and is part of the Durg- Bhilai urban agglomeration. With an urban population of 1,064,077, Durg- Bhilai is the second largest urban area in Chhattisgarh after Rai ...

-Dalli Rajhara railway line. * Ongoing project of Dalli Rajhara– Rowghat–

. (Phase 1 first stretch Dalli Rajhara–Keoti work has been started). * Extension of trains: 78816/78815 Dalli Rajhara–

DEMU to

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. * New line surveys for extending proposed Dalli Rajhara railway line by constructing it up to

Balod Balod is a city on the banks of the River Tandula and a nagar palika in Balod district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. Balod is 44 km from Dhamtari and 58 km from Durg. Balod has one college, one court, one community health cent ...

–

Dhamtari Dhamtari is a municipal corporation and headquarters of the Dhamtari district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, which is part of the Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency formed on 6July 1998. The district is home to 3.13 percent of Chhattisgar ...

. * New line surveys for Dalli Rajhara–

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(

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) via Khadgaon, BharriTola and Manpur. * New line surveys for linking Bhanupratappur with Dalli Rajhara– Rowghat under construction rail line and connecting it with

Gallery

Image:Dalli Rajhara5.jpg, Rajhara Dam, Hanumanji Image:Dalli Rajhara2.jpg, Rajhara Mine Area Image:Dalli Rajhara4.jpg, Way to Kokan Pahadi Image:Dalli Rajhara6.jpg, Hanuman Mandir, New Market Image:Dalli Rajhara7.jpg, Gurudwara Image:Dalli Rajhara9.jpg, Mines

Notable people

Shankar Guha Niyogi Shankar Guha Niyogi (14 February 1943 – 28 September 1991) was an Indian labor leader who was the founder of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a labor union run in the town of Dalli Rajhara Mines in Chhattisgarh, India. Early life Guha Niyogi ...

References

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