| Kopali | |
| Other Name: | Kapali |
| Settlement Type: | Census Town |
| Pushpin Map: | India Jharkhand#India3 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Jharkhand, India |
| Coordinates: | 22.838°N 86.1907°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 6.74 |
| Population Total: | 43256 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages* |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code: | 832110 |
| Area Code: | 06597 |
| Registration Plate: | JH 22 |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Literacy |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 72.40% |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
Kopali (also spelled as Kapali) is a census town in the Chandil CD block in the Chandil subdivision of the Seraikela Kharsawan district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Kapali is located at 22.838°N 86.1907°W.
With its recognition as an industrial town as early as the 1911 census, Jamshedpur was set on the road of steady population growth, as large number of emigrants flocked in for work opportunities. While in the earlier decades the central nucleus grew, in the later decades towns around Jamshedpur grew rapidly. In 2011, Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration included 13 urban centres, with a total population of 1.3 million people. However, in more recent years, Jamshedpur UA "has lacked the growth and development observed around other similar industrial towns in western and southern India."[1]
Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration includes: Jamshedpur (Industrial Town), Jamshedpur (NAC), Tata Nagar Railway Colony (OG), Mango (NAC), Jugsalai (M), Bagbera (CT), Chhota Gobindpur (CT), Haludbani (CT), Sarjamda (CT), Gadhra (CT), Ghorabandha (CT), Purihasa (CT), Adityapur (M Corp.), Chota Gamahria (CT) and Kapali (CT).[2]
Note: The map alongside presents the Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
There is a police outpost at Kapali.[3]
According to the 2011 Census of India, Kopali had a total population of 43,256, of which 22,337 (52%) were males and 20,919 (48%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 7,603. The total number of literate persons in Kopali was 21,815 (72.40% of the population over 6 years). Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 0.69% and 2.83% of the population respectively.[4]
Kapali is a Muslim-majority suburb of Jamshedpur. Kopali is a multilingual city, with Urdu, Hindi and Bengali spoken by large populations.[5]
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Seraikela Kharsawan, Kopali covered an area of . It has an annual rainfall of . Among the civic amenities, it had of roads with both closed and open drains, the protected water supply involved hand pump, tube well/ borewell, overhead tank. It had 6,351 domestic electric connections, 15 road lighting points. Among the medical facilities, it had 2 hospitals, 4 dispensaries, 4 health centres, 10 family welfare centres, 4 maternity and child welfare centres, 10 maternity homes, 2 nursing homes, 2 charitable hospital/ nursing homes, 10 veterinary hospitals, 5 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 8 primary schools, 7 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 1 senior secondary school, the nearest general degree college at Jamshedpur, away. It had 9 non-formal education centres (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan). Among social, cultural and recreational facilities, it had 1 orphanage home, 2 auditorium/ community halls. Two important commodities it produced were ready-made clothes, furniture. It had the branch offices of 1 nationalised bank, 4 non-agricultural credit societies.[6]
Merry English School at Kapali is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 2001. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class XII. [7]