Sindri - Educational Institutes

Educational Institutes

In order to provide educational services to children of its employees and wards of other residents of Sindri and nearby localities, 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. Rajinder High School for girls in Saharpura area were imparting education exclusively to girl students.

In addition to the FCIL schools, various private schools also provide excellent education to residents 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 DAV Education Society, New Delhi) and Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir (managed by the Saraswati Vidya Mandir Trust, New Delhi). There are numerous preparatory schools as well, leading among which was Ravindra Parishad.

To provide for higher education FCIL established a co-educational degree college with science, humanities and commerce streams, which is presently a constituent unit of the State run Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh

Sindri has created so many engineers over the last half century through the prestigious engineering college, BIT Sindri. Founded in 1949, BIT Sindri is a premier technical institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various branches of engineering approved by All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi. The institutes operates under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of Jharkhand, Ranchi. BIT Sindri was formerly known as Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri which was renamed as Birsa Institute of Technology (BIT), Sindri after the creation of Jharkhand state in November 2000.