Jamalpur

Jamalpur is a town in the Indian territory of Bihar. It is arranged 8 km from Munger downtown area. Jamalpur is a piece of Munger-Jamalpur twin urban communities. The name Jamalpur truly implies Jamal excellent pur town. Jamalpur is best known for the Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop, which utilizes more than 25,000 individuals at its preparation foundation, The Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. The town was built up in 1862 amid the British Raj, with the Railways Institute shaping its social center.

The paleolithic site of "Kali Pahar", on Jamalpur Hill, was the area of a vital find of quartzite Early and Middle Stone Ages executes. The Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop was the primary undeniable railroad workshop office in India, established on 8 Feb 1862 by the East Indian Railway Company. The Jamalpur site was decided for its closeness both to the Sahibganj circle, which was the primary trunk course at the time, and to the networks of gunsmiths and other mechanical skilled workers in Bihar.

The workshop was at first to repair trains, and gathering new ones from rescued parts. By the mid twentieth century, be that as it may, it had advanced to delivering its own particular trains. It additionally had a workshop for repairing and building boilers. Today it has a foundry, metallurgical lab offices, and machine device offices. Its moving factory and nut and fastener shop stopped activity in 1984. The Ananda Marga development was established here by Jamalpur local Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar in 1955.