Long before the Adityapur Industrial Complex was planned by the Bihar Government, some of the Sikhs were running small and medium scale Industries in the city very successfully catering also to the needs of the Tata Steel and Telco. Chief of them are Pioneer Engineering, Hans Engineering, Sardul Auto Works etc.
There are about 22 Gurudwaras in the city. One central Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee looks after them. There are several schools also managed by them.
Sikh athletes and sportsmen of the city have almost always been participating in the nationals, Asians and Olympics bringing home Laurels. The national cyclists – Amar Singh and Gurudial Singh brothers and a few others have earned great names in cycling in the world.
In the Transport business also Sikh participation is about 65% in the city. They operate All India Services.
They have their activities in cultural and literacy fields also. A few of them have written good poems and stories in Urdu.
Thus the city of Jamshedpur presents a panorama of cosmopolitanism in culture, religion and race, from the very inception of its foundation as the premier steel town in the country. Because of the cross-section of Indian thought and culture, Jamshedpur occupied a singular place as it has imbibed the spirit of renaissance of the 19th century and so the living and culture of people of Jamshedpur crossed all narrow barriers and frontiers of class and caste. The city is the symbol of a miniature India where the unity in diversity, an age-old phrase in our history, is manifested truly in the life and culture of the people of Jamshedpur.
