Korba, Chhattisgarh

Korba is a city and an industrial area in Korba District in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

This article is about the municipality in India. For its namesake district, see Korba district.

Korba
Power City Industrial Capital of Chhattisgarh
Korba
Location in Chhattisgarh, India
Korba
Korba (India)
Coordinates: 22.35°N 82.68°E / 22.35; 82.68
country India
StateChhattisgarh
DistrictKorba District
Named forPahadi korwas
Government
 • BodyNagar Nigam Korba
 • MayorRajkishor Prasad (INC)
 • PresidentShyam Sunder Soni (INC) [1]
Area
 • Total100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Area rank7th in state
Elevation
316 m (1,037 ft)
Population
 (Urban 2011)
 • Total265,253
 • Rank126th
 • Density2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Korbites
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
495450
Area code(s)7759
Vehicle registrationCG-12
Sex ratio927 ♂/♀
Websitewww.korba.gov.in

Geography

Korba is located at 22.35°N 82.68°E / 22.35; 82.68.[2] It has an average elevation of 252 metres (826 feet). As of 2011 India census,[3] Korba city had a population of 365,253.

Economy

[4][5][6]Korba Super Thermal Power Plant of NTPC is located at Jamanipali area. It receives coal from Gevra and Kusmunda mines and source of water for the power plant is Hasdeo River.[7] Korba Thermal Power Station is owned and operated by National Thermal Power Corporation.[8][9] There are more small Power Plant near city like Hasdeo Thermal Power Station, Dr Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Thermal Power Station and Lanco Amarkantak Power Plant.

Bharat Aluminium Company has plant which is one of the Asia's largest aluminium production industries. In 2009, chimney under construction by Gannon Dunkerley & Company at the Balco smelter collapsed killing 49 workers and GDCL management have been accused of negligence in the incident.[10][11][12][13]

It also has a large petroleum containment complex which gets oil from under ground pipelines belonging to Indian Oil Corporation.

Government and jurisdiction

Korba is headquarter of Korba district. Korba City has been a metropolitan municipality with a mayor-council form of government. Korba Municipal Corporation (KMC) was established in 1956 under the Madhya Pradesh Nagar Palika Nigam Adhiniyam. The KMC is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply, local planning and welfare services. The mayor and councillors are elected to five-year terms.

Korba (Lok Sabha constituency) is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency for the city and constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[14] Rampur (ST) (assembly constituency no. 20), Korba (assembly constituency no. 21), Katghora (assembly constituency no. 22) and Pali-Tanakhar (ST) (assembly constituency no. 23) is part of Korba district. Currently, Jyotsna Charan Das Mahant of Indian National Congress is a member of parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha and Jai Singh Agrawal of Indian National Congress sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly from Korba (Vidhan Sabha constituency).[15]

Transport

Rail

Korba railway station is connected to Champa, the nearest railway junction on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line. The stations comes under South East Central Railway Zone. It is directly connected to Bilaspur which the Divisional Headquarter by rail. The 50.7 km (32 mi) long, 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge was constructed between 1953 and 1956, electrified in 1987 and 1988, and extended to Gevra Road railway station in 1988 and 1989.[16][17] New line surveys of Indian Railway were taken during 2012 and 2013, and included a line from Renukoot-Korba via Ambikapur Katghora and Korba-Ranchi.[18]

Road

Korba is well connected with Champa through NH 149B, Ambikapur and Bilaspur through NH 130.

Education

Schools

College

See also

References
  1. IBC24. 10 January 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_qX26TZRs. Retrieved 11 January 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Korba
  3. "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  4. "Coal Mine Project Opportunity" (PDF). Korba Coalfield. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  5. "Question remains on CIL's expansion projects in Chhattisgarh – Question remains on CIL's expansion projects in Chhattisgarh". Financial Express, 13 April 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  6. "CIL's SECL makes day record for coal output in March". Steelguru, 13 April 2007. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  7. NTPC Korba
  8. Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company, "Thermal power stations" Archived 11 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company website, accessed February 2012.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090924/812/tnl-balco-chimney-crash-deaths-climb-to.html%5B%5D
  11. "Balco chimney mishap: Three Chinese officials arrested in Korba". The Hindustan Times. 11 January 2010. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  12. Anderlini, Jamil (29 September 2009). "India questions Sepco staff over chimney collapse". The Financial Times. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  13. "25 die in accident at BALCO's new plant at Korba". Business Standard. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  14. "CandidateAC.xls file on assembly constituencies with information on district and parliamentary constituencies". Chhattisgarh. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
  15. Korba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
  16. Moonis Raza & Yash Aggarwal (1986). Transport Geography of India: Commodity Flow and the Regional Structure of Indian Economy. page 60. Concept Publishing Company, A-15/16 Commercial Block, Mohan Garden, New Delhi - 110059. ISBN 81-7022-089-0. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  17. "History of Electrification". India Rail Info.
  18. What is new in Railway Budget 2012-13
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