Tensa

Tensa
Town
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Coordinates: 21°52′22″N 85°09′54″E / 21.8728854°N 85.1649113°E / 21.8728854; 85.1649113Coordinates: 21°52′22″N 85°09′54″E / 21.8728854°N 85.1649113°E / 21.8728854; 85.1649113
Country	India
State	Odisha
District	Sundargarh
Population  (2015)
• Total	20,786
Languages
• Official	Odia
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	OD
Website	odisha.gov.in

Tensa is a Town Wonder Natural Hill Station in Sundargarh District in the Indian state of Odisha. Tensa has been declared the best mine by the Director General of Mines Safety, Govt. of India. The origins of Tensa are unknown but it is believed that Tensa used to be a tribal settlement prior to industrialization. Soon after the coming of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) Iron Mines in 1960. The township and Ore Processing Plant was officially inaugurated by then Governor of Odisha, Hon'ble Shri Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar on 25 April 1961.

Khandadhar water fall (where Odisha Government lease POSCO to mine Iron Ore) is a picnic spot nearer Tensa.

Demographics[]

As of 2015 India census,^[1] Tensa had a population of 20,786. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Tensa has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 61%. In Tensa, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

General information[]

Tensa is mostly of SAIL because of Iron Ore Mines and is situated near to Major Cities like Rourkela and towns such as Joda and Barbil which is connected with Capital City Bhubaneswar in Eastern India. Tensa is surrounded by Green Forest with mineral deposits . Tensa is located 100 kilometers from Rourkela . Tensa was then mainly developed by SAIL and later little by JSPL. Tensa now newly acquainted as Gram Panchayat in 2016.

Mines

Access[]

By Air: The nearest airport is at Rourkela, Jharsuguda & Bhubaneswar. Rourkela & Bhubaneswar are well connected to Tensa (township) by trains and buses. By Rail: The nearest Barsuan Station is located at Barsuan Valley. There is only one Passenger train (per day) to Barsuan From Rourkela. It is connected by rail to major city nearby, Rourkela which is on the route of Howrah-Mumbai. By Road: Daily bus services link Tensa From Rourkela, Koida, Barbil and Bhubaneswar.

Network availability[]

This hill station does not have a good network communication facility. Only Bsnl and Vodafone network service providers are available here. No other companies network communication is available. During rain and thunder storms powercuts and full network communication lost occurs most of the times. Internet connection are not up to the mark heavy fluctuation in internet speed. In the morning time the bsnl network speed is very worse (average spped in morning-8-60 kbps) and this network speed is also not constant. After 1 o'clock in the night the network speed increases to a better condition (average speed at night-500-700kbps).For good network condition preferable to use at night in the sleeping hours.

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