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Census Town in Jharkhand, India

Nirsā

Nirsa is a census town in Nirsa CD block in the Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

The place

Nirsa is a census town in Nirsa CD block in the Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nirsā

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Koyalchal Sanjay Gandhi Memorial College, Nirsa

    Koyalchal Sanjay Gandhi Memorial College, Nirsa is a Co-educational degree College and is permanently affiliated to Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, Dhanbad Aided by Government of Jharkhand and Registered by University Grants Commission under 2F and 12B. Accredited to NAAC Grade-B offers general education in all three faculties of Arts, Science and Commerce. Honours teaching offered in almost all subjects.

    700 m · Indian educational institute · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nirsā

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 218 km
  • Kolkata → Nirsā
    217 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · ₹1,720–2,150
  • Siliguri → Nirsā
    369 km · quickest by road, 8h 14m · ₹3,510–4,390
  • Bhubaneswar → Nirsā
    401 km · quickest by road, 7h 56m · ₹3,460–4,320
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nirsā

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nirsā. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAuto rickshaws are popular transport links with neighbouring towns and in the coalfields, but these are generally overcrowded.
  • Get aroundAuto rickshaws are also available till late at night.
  • Get aroundThis is also a cheap mode of transport as rickshaw wallahs demand more.

From Wikivoyage: Dhanbad, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    276 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    534 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    559 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    587 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    668 km

If you know how people move in Nirsā – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nirsā

Nirsā is 15 km from Kulti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mugmahuman settlement in Dhanbad district, North Chotanagpur division, Jharkhand, India3.2 km
  • Sindrihuman settlement4.1 km
  • Marma, Dhanbadhuman settlement in Dhanbad district, North Chotanagpur division, Jharkhand, India3.9 km
  • Bhamalcensus Town in Jharkhand, India800 m