Manaitand is a locality within

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. It is a fully residential place surrounded by schools, colleges, markets with other commercial bodies. It is barely from the Dhanbad railway station towards the Purana Bazar side. It has quite a number of water bodies surrounding it namely the Chath Talab (dedicated to the festival of

Chath Chhath is an ancient Hindu festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,West Bengal, Jharkhand, and the Nepalese provinces of Madhesh and Lumbini. Prayers during Chhat ...

, famous in Bihar/Jharkhand), Singara talab, Dhobi bandh etc. It also houses the famous Pranjivan Academy high secondary school among other schools.

References

*Subhash Sharma, Fine artist, Journalist cum cartoonist Geography of Jharkhand {{Jharkhand-geo-stub