The Geographical Space

1.       A Tour 
  Part-1: The Developing Side

Bhubaneswar Map

The NH-16 divides the whole city area approximately into two equal halves, connecting the silver city, Cuttack passing through Khandagiri, Baramunda, CRP Sqaure, Jaydev Vihar, Acharya Vihar, Vani Vihar, and Rasulgarh check points. The north side of the divided city includes two industrial estates, one is the Chandaka industrial estate and the other one is the Mancheswar Industrial Estate.

The Mancheswar industrial estate was created to have a small scale industrial hub, but it went the other way around. By the status reports from IDCO, there are 137 different industries prevailing in that zone from which more than 20 were hotels, lodging and boarding, garage, PCO booth, stationery shops and go-downs. 64 were under construction and 35 are lying unused.

Mancheswar Industrial Estate

Still this area is the most important spot for MSME sectors based industries in the Bhubaneswar map. Orissa RenewableEnergy Development Agency, Orissa Small Industries Corporation Ltd., PostalPrinting Press, Central Testing Laboratory are some of the prominent MSMEs residing in this estate. Most of the small scale manufacturing and assembly units are also placed in this area making it the manufacturing hub of Bhubaneswar.

On the other hand, Chandaka Industrial Estate is the new emerging industrial estate encompassing specialized technical & management Institutions and Training centers. It also borders the Silicon Valley of Bhubaneswar; home to many Multinational and national IT based firms making it the industrial Estate of tomorrow.  Special Economic zone(SEZ) developed by IDCO at Chandaka, otherwise known as Infocity has established units of Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Mind Tree etc. to cultivate IT and ITES trends within the city.

Chandaka Industrial Estate

A growing center of skill development and a recognized MSME, CTTC, Bhubaneswar is flourishing its capabilities in this area. Lighting the conventional training platform, it has trained many young minds to work in the Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Electronics backgrounds with specialized expertise given to them in this home based center. CIPET,Bhubaneswar is also gearing up to its full performance and achieving greater heights in the field of plastic designing, manufacturing and research. It will soon be positioning its flag higher within a few years by devoting its efforts to the construction of Paradeep Plastic Park, in collaboration with IDCO.

Techincal Institutes, Patia 

Reputed Technical Institutions like KIIT University, Silicon Institute, Nilachal Polytechnic, CEB, NIFT, and MITS are also largely adding value to this place. Management Institutes like, KSOM, BIITM, USBM, Srusti Academy etc. in this area aspires to put footprints globally creating professional assets and leaders of tomorrow. With quality infrastructure and supported by state of the art technology, all the institute strives to set high standards of education by continuously improving the quality and content of pedagogy. 

Developmental Plan Area 2030

The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has very precisely planned the areas of  Patia and Chandrasekharpur to rightfully accommodate the existing populace with adequate residential commercial zones(Retail & whole sale). The working class prevailing are residing in these areas gradually increasing their density. This increase in density of outsiders has also increased the local vending zones in these areas with few formalities and in-formalities. Damana being a intersection point has been allotted with the retail commercial and business use zone for better flow of liabilities and facilities. 

Being the plinth soil of many one room startups in their initial phase, C.S pur and Patia area predicts a valuable future for the tomorrow world. The District center situated in Chandrasekharpur inhibits many IT based and core based startups trying to surpass their break-even's within a few years, building it to the best place for nourishment of budding entrepreneurs.  

The southern parts of Chandrasekhar faces the Rail Sadan attached with the railway quarters alongside the OSAP 7th Batalion and police quaters. The North side of Rail Sadan faces the OMFED factory making it a small industrial zone distributing dairy products with ease of transportation and coverage.

Fortune Tower is another IT Specific project by IDCO which is situated at a distance of 4.0 Kms from the Chandaka Industrial Estate. It was one of the first IT parks to be constructed at a prime location in this developing side. Right next to it is the Tech Mahindra Campus, which also provides IT and BPO related jobs to the techies in Bhubaneswar. Educational Towers like XIMB, Regional College of Management, ELTI, and NIOS circumscribe the Fortune towers bringing bags of fortune to this area.

This blog will continue describing the developing side in the Section Developing side:At a glance. The next blog will include the Part:2 of the section A Tour which will narrate the old Town and New town Areas of Bhubaneswar.