Located
at a distance of37 km from Dhanbad,
Topchanchi is a calm and beautiful lake.This artificial lake was formed in 1915 after excavating along the
bottom of the slope of Parasnath Hill. It was supposed to provide water to
Jharia.
TopchanchiLake
is also just 6 km from Gomoh, where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose boarded the
train for his historical departure from India on the 18th Jan 1941. A
statue of Netaji was installed in the Topchanchi market to commemorate this
event.
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