Adityapur is part of the Greater Jamshedpur, under the Indian government's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Adityapur is named after Raja Aditya Pratap Singh Deo (1887-1969), the last ruler of Seraikela State.

[4] Owing to modern development in the time of British Empire, police stations were opened at Ichagarh, Patamda and Chandil.

[8] Thus many peoples form other parts of India came an made the city's multicultural and cosmopolitan culture.

[12] Within few times, it developed rapidly as an industrial satellite city for Jamshedpur metropolitan area.

[16] 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.

However, in more recent years, Jamshedpur metropolitan area has lacked the growth and development observed around other similar industrial cities in western and southern India.

[23] According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Seraikela Kharsawan, Among the civic amenities, it had one hundred and ninety-two km (119 mi) of roads with open drains.

There are about 20 large scale industries such as Tata Growth Shop, Usha Martin, Omni Auto, LMT and RSB.

City Residency Private Limited will set up a large mixed-use project, namely, The Onyx in the heart of Adityapur, with a shopping mall, a hotel, office, commercial, entertainment and residential spaces.

It had an engineering college, a polytechnic, a non-formal education centre (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan).

[26] Srinath University is a private institution at Dindli, Adityapur with diverse educational programmes.

[27] Indo Danish Tool Room is one of the top polytechnic institutes in India that offers diploma in engineering courses.

Government Polytechnic, established at Adityapur in 1980, offers diploma courses in engineering.

[28] DAV Public School, NIT Campus, Adityapur is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1991.

[29][30] Central Public School Adityapur is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 2005.

[31] Srinath Public School Adityapur is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 2014.

[38] Shri Ram NG High School is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established in 2009.

Among social, cultural and recreational facilities, it had an old age home, a stadium, three cinema theatre, an auditorium/ community hall, a public library, a reading room.