Obra is a town, Tehsil and Assembly constituency of

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Sonebhadra district Sonbhadra or ''Sonebhadra'' is the second largest district by area of Uttar Pradesh after Lakhimpur Kheri. It is the only district in India which borders four states, namely Madhya Pradesh to the west, Chhattishgarh to the south, Jharkhand in t ...

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. Obra is located 137 km from Varanasi at the Banks of Renu & Sone River with population of 46,574 As per 2011 India Census. State-owned UPRVUNL and UPJVUNL have a coal-fired thermal power plant and a hydro electric power plant here, respectively . The before mentioned industries are the major source of employment either directly or indirectly . Recreational places in Obra include Jawahar Bal Udayan (Children's Park), Ambedkar Stadium, Lord Shiva's temple, Sone river banks, parsoi and kharatiya villages etc. Restructuring of government residential colony is ongoing ( as of 2020 ) as new power plants are being constructed.

Geography

Obra is located at . It has an average elevation in the range of 315 and 485 metres.

Demographics

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, Obra had a 406,574 of which 204,804 are males while 201,770 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Obra has an average literacy rate of 87% , higher than the state average of 67.68%: male literacy is around 91.5%, and female literacy is 86.9%. In Obra, 12.36% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Power stations

Obra stands by the side of the Renu & Sone rivers, tributaries of the Ganga. The environment around nicely supports the Thermal and Hydroelectric (Hydel) Power Station. The thermal station has 13 units with the total capacity of 1550 MW and the Hydel has a maximum capacity of 99 MW. Thermal power station-B houses India's first 200 MW installed and commissioned units. Pushing aside heavy competition from home-bred companies like BHEL and L&T, South Korean's top power equipment manufacturer Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Company's Indian arm, Doosan Power Systems India (DPSI), clinched two super-critical power projects of 1,320 MW each in Uttar Pradesh. the 2×660 MW Obra C project, in Sonebhadra district, would be a brownfield project and will cost R10,416 crore. The construction is now underway. Both the projects are expected to start generating 1320 MW of power each by 2021.

Economy

Apart from the power plants, stone-crushing and transportation are major employment providers . Retail shops also form a chunk of the economy.

Media and communications

All India Radio has a local station in Obra which transmits various programs of mass interest. It was started on 28.08.1993. It operates on 102.7 MHz. It mainly originates programmes in Hindi as well as in Bhojpuri.

Schools and Colleges and coaching

# Rajkiya Snatakottar Mahavidyalaya (Obra Degree College) # Vidya Niketan Junior High School Sector-10 # Sacred Heart Convent School # Obra Inter College # Kiddies Care English School # Shishu Shiksha Niketan # Saraswati Shishu Mandir # Career Convent educational school # Bal Vidya Mandir # Shiksha Niketan Intermediate College # Modern Convent School # Swami Satyananda Saraswati Vidyalaya # Girls Inter College # Saraswati Vidya Mandir # Islamia School # Islamia Inter College # Atmaram Pvt ITI Gajraj Nagar, Chopan Road, Obra # DAV Public School # Vijay ITI # om coaching center sector 8 obra # English medium School, Govt.School, Billi Gav #Vikash coaching center khairatiya

Religious places

# Sharda Mandir Chopan Road # Hanuman Mandir, at junction of Chopan Road and VIP Road # Maa Sheetla Mandir, Chopan Road # gaytri mandir sec-8 # Someswar Mahadev Mandir, Bhalua Tola # Shiv Mandir, Sector 10 # Islamia Mosque, VIP Road # Sacred Heart Church, VIP Road # Sankat Mochan Mandir, Sector 2 # Baba Bhuteshwar Darbar Cave, Sector 3 # Buddha Vihar, Ambedkar Chauraha # Chitra Gupta Mandir, Ram Mandir Colony # Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Obra Sonebhadra # Noori Maszid, Bhalua Tola # Millat Nagar Mosque # St.Luke's Church, sector-8 # Shiv Parvati Amar Gufa, Salaibanwa # Geeta mandir , sector 8

Places to visit

# Jawahar Bal Udyaan (Children Park), VIP Road # Water Treatment Plant, Sector 3 # Obra Dam # Water Treatment Plant, Sector 10 # Ambedkar Stadium, Near Degree College # Gandhi Maidan # Sector 10 Hill # Devil Garden

References

{{Sonbhadra district Cities and towns in Sonbhadra district