State food and supplies minister Saryu Roy laid the foundation for a community centre at Sidhu Kanhu Basti in Sonari on Sunday.
The community centre assumes significance as there is no such facility in the locality with a population of over 25,000.
Spread across an acre, the community centre will be developed by Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC).
"The community centre will prove a boon for people of this locality. The centre can be used for organising both social and cultural programmes," the minister told the gathering.
Special officer of JNAC, Deepak Sahay, who was also present on the occasion, said the construction work of the community centre would be completed within six months.
"Over Rs 17 lakh will be spent for the construction. The centre will have a hall with all necessary amenities. It can hold multiple functions, including marriages," said JNAC's Sahay.
The civic body official added that a committee would be formed to fix a "nominal rent" for people who would hire the centre for functions.
Sources in JNAC said such community centres had been planned at several other places in the city.
"A survey had been carried out for identifying places that lack such centres for recreation and for hosting socio-cultural functions. Another four to five such new community centres will come up at various parts of the city in the next one year," said a source at the urban civic body.
The residents of Sidhu Kanhu Basti expressed happiness over the new amenity.
"The community centre will help us organise and host various functions in our neighbourhood itself. We are thankful to the state government for thinking about our needs and gifting us such a facility," said Naresh Kumar, a resident.
JNAC officials who were present at the foundation stone laying ceremony said that depending on the response, steps might be taken to introduce various vocational training programmes such as stitching and knitting at the community centre.