Proud to Be from Shankargarh — Where Nature Is the Only Influencer

Описание: Proud to Be from Shankargarh — Where Nature Is the Only Influencer


Shankargarh station serves Shankargarh in District: Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh).


Shankargarh Railway station is in Prayagraj district making it an important railway station of Uttar Pradesh. The station code name of Shankargarh is ‘SRJ’.


There are 174 trains that pass through the Shankargarh Railway station.


Shankargarh Railway station falls under the North Central Railway zone.


Shankargarh is a town and a nagar panchayat in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh.It Is Also Known As Kasauta Shankargarh.


During the British Raj, it was known as Kasuta Shankargarh Bara Rajya. Raja Kamlakar Singh was most known among all the emperors of the region because of a landmark established by him, the Raja Kamlakar Inter College. Later on in 2000, Raja Kamlakar Degree College was established by Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. These two landmarks leading the education in the area.



Prayagraj Power Generation Company Limited
is a coal-based, 3*660MW, super critical thermal power plant located in Shankargarh (Bara Tehsil) in Prayagraj District, Uttar Pradesh. The power plant is owned by Renascent Power, a subsidiary of the Tata power Power. The total cost of the project was INR 12,000 crores. In November 2019 Resurgent Power Ventures Pte. Limited (Resurgent Power) has announced closing the deal for acquiring 75 per cent stake in Jaiprakash Associates Ltd’s Prayagraj Power.

BPCL also reassessing plan to build refinery in Shankargarh, Prayagraj.


Yamuna River is lifeline for this region which is 20 km in radius from Shankargarh Block. Various irrigation projects are going on to make nearest areas more fertile and suitable for farming. Economy of this area depends mainly on agriculture and silica mining.


The main occupation of the local population is mining activity and stone quarrying, as the land is not very fertile. The Raja of Shankargarh has mining rights over 46 villages (covering an area of 150 km2) in perpetuity and gives the rights to contractors who in turn hire local labourers to extract minerals.