The small town is green and beautiful.Sindri is located at 22.8°N 85.98°E. It has an average elevation of 178 metres (583) feet. The name is said to be given by the local tribals because of the vermilion coloured soil found here. Sindri was truly the mixing pot for various cultures and regions in India. It was not unusual to find a Bengali, a Bihari, a Sikh, a Tamil, a Kannada and a Jain family li
ving in the same block of the town. Shaharpura hosted the downtown shopping area where established dry goods merchants, tailors and butchers shared their space with farmers and other small time merchants. the FCIL Management started the first school in Sindri in 1948. The management of the fertilizer factory ran seven Rajendra schools, - three high Schools affiliated to the Jharkhand Academic Council, four middle schools following curricula under the Jharkhand State Education Policy in Shaharpura and Domgarh areas of the Township, all named after Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the independent India and one English medium integrated senior secondary school, Model English High School, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi in Rohrabandh area of the Township. Rajendra High School for girls in Saharpura area were imparting education exclusively to girl students.In addition to the FCIL managed schools, the FCIL Management established various private schools viz. DeNobili School (chain of schools run by Society of Jesuits in the Jharia coal belt), Lions Public School, DAV Public School (managed by the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College Trust and Management Society, New Delhi) and Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir (managed by the Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan, New Delhi), which also provide excellent education to residents . There are numerous preparatory schools as well, leading among which was Ravindra Parishad. The factory inaugurated in March 1952. In his inauguration speech, the then Prime Minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru said that he was not just inaugurating a fertilizer factory but he was inaugurating " A TEMPLE OF MODERN INDIA".
