Sakchi was a village in north eastern Indian territory of Singhbhum which was selected by Jamsetji Tata to be the location of a planned steel city, which in 1919 became Jamshedpur.

As Tata Steel was established, the first planned urban settlement started in Sakchi area and it included businessmen (Gujaratis, Parsis, Punjabis), servicemen (Biharis, Bengalis, Oriyas, Telugus, Kannadigas, Marathis, Tamils, and Malayalis).

Once, there used to be a single line railway track which would carry sand for the factory in present-day Aambagan Maidan near the Masjid, it does not exist anymore.

The city is unique because it is a very small town even today with extreme ends being covered within 45 minutes (including traffic).

In April 1904, Dorabji Tata, Shapurji Saklatvala and C. M. Weld, went on a journey to locate a site rich in iron, coal, limestone and water.

One day they reached to Sakchi village, situated in the dense forests of the Chota Nagpur plateau, near the convergence of the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers.