About Ranchi

 

About Ranchi

            Ranchi is one of the oldest city and state capital of Jharkhand about 23 years back it was carved out from Bihar and came into inception of new state Jharkhand, popularly known as the city of picturesque  waterfalls inviting tourists from all over the world to have a visit and spend some calm and quiet moment in its meadow. Previously it was the 2^nd or summer capital of Bihar due to its moderate climate; it has also very old deep rooted cultural and historical importance too. It comes under tribal state as about 28% population of this state are tribal’s with rich culture and celebrate their festival with great zeal and enthusiasm. Sarhul is one of them, which is celebrated in the month of April every year, in which young boys and girls in red and white attire dance all the way in the city after having good traditional food and slurping locally made Handia highly intoxicant beverages.

            If you are in Ranchi then there are few places to visit must:-

1.     Jagganth Temple,

2.     Pahari Mandir,

3.     Rock Garden,

4.     Sun Temple, Bundu

5.     Rock Garden,

6.     Nakshatra Van

As per the history goes previously it was called ‘Archi’ later village Kishunpur called in Ranchi from 1927. The city is situated at the ‘Subarn Rekha river and its municipality was formed in 1869. This city is also surrounded by scenic beauty and cascading waterfalls namely:-

1.     Hundroo waterfalls,

2.     Dasham waterfalls,

3.     Sita waterfalls,

4.     Tiru waterfalls

5.     Hirni waterfalls,

6.     Panch Ghagh waterfalls,

7.     Rajrappa waterfalls,

8.     Lodh waterfalls,

All the waterfalls are in the radius of 35 to 40 Kms and are must visit tourist spot. Rachities  like to have traditional food such as Litti Chokha, Dhuska, Handia, Rugra (found in the month of July-August), Malpua, Bamboo shoots, Thekua.

            As the days passed now Ranchi city turned into like a modern Metros, so lot of big city malls, modern restaurants, picture halls, 3 to 5 star hotels has come up and skyscrapers adoring the city and at the same time is also famous for premier Technical Institute B.I.T.Mesra, Amity University, D.A.V. Schools, D.P.Schools which are producing talented students every year.

Text and Photos by- Ashok Karan,

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