It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation[1] Dihika was made famous by Paramahansa Yogananda who came here in 1917 to set up a "How-to-Live" school with only seven students and a couple of teachers.

[2] Yogananda "had long nurtured the dream of setting up a residential school where students would be imparted moral and spiritual lessons apart from formal and vocational training.

"It was decided that the Ashram-School would begin in an estate bungalow in Dihika, a lonely hamlet by the river Damodar, some 10 km from Asansol.

Thus was sown the seed of a life-long mission that blossomed in later years to draw millions of God-seeking people with its fragrance.

Huts of local villagers dotted the place and above all these mortal bodies there lay a vast expanse of blue sky with all its magnanimity.