Tata Steel, BCCL, ECL and IISCO (Indian Iron And Steel Company) are some of the companies having coal mines in the district.
Justice S. B. Sinha was born on August 8, 1944 at Dhanbad in the state of Jharkhand, India.
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Ajoy Ghose, Director of the Indian School of Mines University in Dhanbad, India
Also there are many Private Operators which ply express and Super Fast as well as Deluxe Buses to various other towns of the State as well as Outside the State to places such as Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Giridih, Hazaribag etc.
The town is well connected by road to major cities like Patna, Rajgir, Nalanda, Harnaut, Ranchi, Dhanbad, koderma, Kolkata, Gaya, Hazaribag, Jahanabad, Bakhtiyarpur, Barhi, Ramgarh, Jamshedpurnalandalakhisrijamui.
As such, the train serves as a link between towns such as Bandel, Seoraphuli, which are located on the main line with industrial centers Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad and Bokaro (via-Dhanbad) and the metropolis of Kolkata.
A lot of people from adjoining districts like Bokaro,Koderma,Giridih come to Dhanbad early morning to catch the 'morning trains' to various destinations like Kolkata, Durgapur, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Patna, Burdwan and Gaya.
They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).
Tusu songs are sung by village girls during a month long observance of Tusu festival in villages of Purulia and some parts of Barddhaman, Bankura and Birbhum districts of West Bengal and parts of East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand.
Long distance such as Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Daltonganj and other part of Jharkhand are directly connected with daily buses and for Patna (114 km) more than dozens of buses plying apart from many Tata Sumo and Tata Wingers.
Many local and passenger trains connect Sitarampur with Dhanbad, Gomoh, Chittaranjan, Asansol and Bardhaman and to Madhupur & Deoghar in Deoghar district of Jharkhand and various other parts of Jharkhand and Bihar.
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Some major trains providing stoppage at Sitarampur are Dhanbad - Howrah Coalfield Express and Black Diamond Express, Kathgodum Express, Mithila Express etc.