Jamshedpur, Sept. 15: How about a trip to the Wolfram Hills? All you need to do is shell out a tenner and look forward to a bumpy ride on a rickety bus.

The name might conjure images of some posh residential area in England but Wolfram Hills, in reality, is on the outskirts of the steel city, today known by a different name altogether. Several such places have been renamed and ? over the years ? came to be known by another name.

Yadu Banshi Vishwakarma, a geography research scholar with the University of Rajasthan, in his thesis titled Impact of Jamshedpur on Neighbouring Villages, came up with places in the steel city that were later renamed. His work was appreciated by the divisional manager, Town Medical & Health services, Tata Steel, S.K. Raja way back in 1973. To begin with, Wolfram Hills is none other than Golpahari temple area. A Kali temple located on the Golpahari is one of the most frequented temples in the city but even the regulars would rarely know the earlier name of the hillock.

Sundardas Sachdeva, the managing director of the India Clock Manufacturing Company, not only provided a source of employment to the innumerable families, who had opted to settle nearly 3 km from the steel city, but also gave them his name. This area, south-east of Jamshedpur city, which housed the employees of the clock manufacturing company, was named Sundernagar after the MD of the firm. This is the same place, which one crosses on the way to the Uranium mines at Jadugoda.

Moving towards Jamshedpur, one learns of a lesser known story about the unassuming Pramathanagar. Nowadays, largely inhabited by the Bengali community, this residential colony had a different beginning ? some 30 families had settled down here after having migrated from Benaras, and later coming to be known as Benarasi Tola.

But as time passed, Benarasi Tola?s population began to change as the Bengali community started to settle in the area. Later their predominance in the area led to the renaming of the housing colony to Pramathanagar.

The steel city has an interesting history too. Jamshedpur had earlier been an obscure Adivasi village called Sankchi. The present day Sakchi is actually the misspelt yet widely accepted version of the hamlet which grew to become the steel city. The only map of the region available in 1907 misspelt the name of the village as Sakchi and it stuck. It was named Jamshedpur by Lord Chelmsford in 1919 in memory of Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata, the doyen of Indian industry.