Gorumahisani

Gorumahisani is a village and a railway station in Odisha, India.

Gorumahisani
Gorumahisani
Coordinates: 22°20′12″N 86°16′27″E
Country India
StateOdisha
DistrictMayurbhanj
Languages
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
757042

It is located in Rairangpur tahsil of Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India.[1] It is situated 17 km from Rairangpur and 100 km from district headquarter Baripada.

The post office code of place is 757042.[2]

The town is famous for iron ore mines, which were the first iron ore mines developed in India in 1910, by Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo ruler of Princely State of Mayurbhanj. He appointed Pramatha Nath Bose, a leading geologist in 1908 to survey the ore deposits. Later the mines were leased to Tata Steel, in which the Dewan of the State, Mohini Mohan Dhar, played the leading role.[3][4] In 2016, a CBSE school opened was by the Government of Odisha viz., Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya to provide quality education to rural talents.

Transport

It has a railway station, whose railway code is GUMI, which falls under jurisdiction of South Eastern Railway Zone.[5] As a result of iron ore mines being developed, the town is connected with Tatanagar in 1910 by Bengal Nagpur Railway.(See: Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line).

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